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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Ess
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:03:32 -0400

Article from unknown sources with handwritten date of 1959. Extracted
from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie
Brown of Madison, Missouri.



Miss Edith Jo Ess, 16, Drowned In Farm Lake Tuesday



"Miss Edith Jo Ess, 16, high school junior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Ess of Paris, drowned Tuesday evening around 7:00 o'clock in a
small lake on the farm west of Stoutsville formerly owned for several
years by Rev. R.M. Lemly, then pastor of the Paris Presbyterian Church.
The lake is now the property of the Walsh Refractories of Farber and St.
Louis.

With Miss Ess at the time were her brother, John Ess, 13, and two of his
friends, Bobby Brown, 15, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Claud Brown of Paris, and
Gale Bierly, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bierly of Paris. Miss Ess was
the only one in the party licensed to drive and had taken the group to
the lake for a swim. They had just arrived when the drowning occurred,
according to Bobby Brown. Brown said that Miss Ess, who swam very
little, had an inner tube with her, and had just walked into the water
in wading depths when the boys went to another part of the little lake.
When they looked back they saw the tube floating but could not see Miss
Ess. Frightened and unable to drive back to Paris, the boys ran to the
nearby Highway 24, hailed a passing transport truck and helps was
brought from Paris.

Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ess, a brother, John, her
maternal grandmother, Mrs. Daniel Krembs, all of the home; and her
paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ess of Madison. Funeral
services are being held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Paris
Christian Church with the Rev. Paul Rathbun, officiating. Burial will
be in Walnut Grove Cemetery."





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