Erma Marie Baugher ~ 1900-1918

BAUGHER, MAHLER

Posted By: Volunteer - Rhonda Rankin Rowe
Date: 2/4/2002 at 10:31:01

Erma Marie Baugher was born February 6, 1900, and passed from this life February 10, 1918, only four days after her eighthteenth (sic) birthday anniversary.

She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Baugher, her father having preceded her in death eight days.

Erma’s home was on their farm near Bonaparte, where she was born and grew to young womanhood, but this is the fourth winter she has attended the Bonaparte High School and she was a member of the class which will be graduated this spring.

Erma had also given special attention to the study of music, developing her natural ability in that line, and affording great pleasure to her relatives and schoolmates.

Erma was taken ill a little over a week ago, contracting a severe cold with the measles, and pneumonia quickly developed. Everything within human power was done to restore her to health, but she rapidly grew worse until the end came at seven o’clock Sunday morning. She was conscious to the last, and on the last evening before she died she expressed her wish to be baptized; this was done. Rev. Father Toner of Farmington administering the rite of baptism, and she was received into the membership of the Catholic church.

She was a splendid girl, and will be sadly missed, not only by her mother, who is thus bereft of her entire family in a few days; also her grandmother, Mrs. Rosina Mahler, with whom she made her home while attending school, and at whose house she died; and her aunts and uncles and other members of her immediate family circle will feel only a little more keenly than will her schoolmates, the loss of the young life from among them.

The funeral was held Tuesday at one o’clock from the Mahler home, the Rev. Father Toner being in in (sic) charge. Several members of the Glee Club, for which she played the accompaniniasts, (sic) sang, and six young ladies acted as honorary pall bearers, while the high school attended in a body. Burial was in the Vale cemetery beside her father who was laid to rest a week ago.

Source; Iowa Rankin and Jenny Matheson newspaper clippings