Thanks Nancee. I remember my great-grandparents, Claire's mother & father, very well and remember how their eyes would fill with tears when we talked about the loss of "Claire Boy" -- always the little boy. His brother, my grandfather Donald, died in California in 1974. His sister, Gladys (Binning) died just a few years ago, (2002), at the age of 103. She'd lived in 3 centuries having been born in 1899, and except for a few years of her life had lived in Van Wert. It's good to have this obituary and I do appreciate your effort in getting it to me. I'd never seen it. -Sherry > [Original Message] > From: Nancee Seifert <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/4/2009 4:28:03 PM > Subject: [IADECATU] DEATH OF CLARENCE ALBERT PRICE > > Decatur County Journal > Leon, Iowa > November 16, 1911 > > CLARENCE ALBERT PRICE, youngest son of Mr. And Mrs. IRA F. PRICE, was born > January 22, 1902, and died of diphtheria November 3, 1911, being at the time > of his death 9 years, 9 months and 11 days old. > > On November 4, the beloved body was tenderly laid to rest in the Van Wert > Cemetery. CLAIRE, as he was familiarly called, had lived all his life with > his parents on their farm in Franklin Township, Decatur County, Iowa, where > death occurred. He was an exceptionally bright, manly boy and in him rested > the fondest hopes of all who knew him best. The sorrow caused by his death > is very profound in the hearts of all his school mates and young friends. > The father, mother, brother and sister who remain are bearing this the > heaviest burden ever laid upon humanity with Christian fortitude, believing > as they do that > > By and by when all life's lessons > Have been learned, > When sun and stars forever more > Have set. > The things which our weak judge- > ment here have spurned, > The things over which we grieved > With lashes wet. > Will flash before us all of life's > Dark night, > As stars show best in deepest tints > Of blue. > And we shall see how all God's > Plans are right, > And how what seemed proof was > Love most true. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > December 4, 2009 > [email protected] > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message