Minnie Lorena Shearer (1898-1912)

SHEARER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal April 26, 1912

OBITUARY OF LORENA SHEARER.

Well-Known Young Lady Claimed by Death.

Special to the Journal.
Gilbert, April 26.--Minnie Lorene Shearer was born in Maxwell, Story county, Iowa, May 4, 1898. In 1901 the Shearer family moved to Gilbert, where they have since resided. She accepted Jesus Christ as her Saviour in the Gilbert Congregational church on the 11th of February, this year, and the following Sunday united with the church.

She as taken ill about six weeks ago, her trouble deepened and on the 26th of March she was taken to the Iowa Sanitarium at Nevada, where all that human aid could do was done to allay her distress. Death won the battle and she passed out of this life into the great beyond on Tuesday, April 16, aged 13 years, 11 months and 12 days.