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Subject: OBITUARY BESSE ALLENDER
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:08:15 EDT

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The Independent Patriot
July 7, 1898
Lamoni, Iowa

DIED.

ALLENDER. - At her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. ALLENDER,
Lamoni, Iowa, July 3, 1898, at 12:30 A. M., Besse C. ALLENDER, aged 19 years and
five months.

The disease which finally removed the deceased is a form of consumption which
took hold of the alimentary canal.

Besse was born at Burlington, Iowa, February 3, 1879. She grew almost to
womanhood in the city of her birth, and removed with her parents to Lamoni when
fifteen years of age, February 3, 1894, where she resided until death.

She was endowed with an unusually talented mind and was a leader in the
circles of bright young people in which she moved; and her protracted illness and
approaching departure to a better land have moved both young and old with a
degree of sympathy and solicitude not often manifested. We sincerely hope that
this may be a comfort to the bereaved family when the more poignant grief has
passed into the calm memory of a departed loved one and the burden of vacancy
in the heart only to be fully supplied in the reunion of the sweet by and by in
some other room of the great temple of eternity.

The funeral occurred Tuesday, July 5, at 2 p.m. from the Brick Church, Elder
Fred M. SMITH offered prayer at the church, Elder J. A. GUNSOLLEY delivered
the sermon, and Elder F. CRILEY pronounced the benediction. David ANDERSON, D.
R. DUDLEY, Arthur SMITH, Wilber GILLEN, Ed KELLEY and Ed BELL, all young men
who moved in the circles with the deceased; were the pall bearers. The casket
was immediately preceded by six young ladies, all intimate friends of the
departed: Zena HANSEN, Audie HANSEN, Mae ATKINSON, Lillian COSOVER, Louie SMITH
and Lena LAMBERT.

A resting place was found in Rose Hill where Elder GUNSOLLEY offered prayer.

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April 9, 2004

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