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Show Death Claims Young Woman The death of Miss Lurena Edwards of this city, at the Salina hospital last Monday evening, coming as it did so very unexpected and following so closely the sad bereavement we chronicled chro-nicled a week ago, se'emed to cast ariother shadow over the community. Only a week since this Friday Miss Edwards, then bright and seemingly happy in thi3 life, was mingling with gay youth. With her companions she had been enjoying the dance and upon retiring to her bed had a sudden attack of illness, caused, as afterward proved, by appendicitis. She was taken to the hospital Monday, but at a stage of her illness when recovery was scarcely expected by the physicians physi-cians who performed the operation. Miss Edwards would have attained her twentieth birthday on the 8th of next month. She was born in Sterling, this county, November 8, 1894, the daughter of JohnW. Edwards and Mary J. Roseberg. The parents, I 4 brothers and 6 sisters survive as well as many relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, after-noon, from the meetinghouse, t attended atten-ded by many of deceased's friends and a large share of the community who sympathized with the bereaved. A-mong A-mong the abundance of beautiful flowers sent was a token deftly woven in the form of a wheel showing on e broken in the circle of thirteen spokes that represented tie number who comprised the membership of the Cleofops, a local organization of ypung women With which she was identified. identi-fied. The services were conducted by Bishop James Rasmusson, who spoke briefly following Counselor Joseph A. Larson, Joel E. Ricks and John Larson. Lar-son. A poem, "There Is No death," was read by O. I. Rasmusson. The opening prayer was offered by C. E. Ferre and the benediction pronounced pronoun-ced by Austin Kearns. Selections, rendered by a quartet, composed of Nephi Gledhill, E. L. Swalberg, Mrs. Emily L. Knighton and Miss Charlotte Char-lotte Parry, were: "Beautiful Zion," "Lead, kindly light," "What prize shall be your reward," and "God be with you till we meet again." Deceased was eulogized for her affable af-fable and bright qualities. In the language of another: "We dare not qsk. why she was taken from us in her prime, unless, as flowers are picked before the frost finds them that we may not witness their decay." |