Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Norris, Arnold 1917
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, January 4, 1917
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Jan. 4, 1917

LITTLE ARNOLD NORRIS PASSES AWAY

When the sad news was spread over town, that little Arnold Norris had passed 
away, it cast a gloom over the entire community that only comes when the sting 
of death has taken from our midst, one so innocent and bright as was little 
Arnold Norris.
It was discovered some months ago by the attending physician that the child had 
diabetes, a ver rare case for one so young, and grave fears were entertained 
for his recovery. He was immediately taken to a specialist at Waukesha, Wis., 
where for a time he seemed to improve and was returned home with hopes that he 
might out-grow the dreaded disease, but all hopes were blighted when a short 
time before the death angel came to take the untarnished little soul, he became 
suddenly worse and while every effort was made to restore him, it was of no 
avail.
Only a few days before he was taken away, he seemed to know he could not live 
and told his father and mother that he was going to die and asked to be laid to 
rest beside his little play mate, Harry McCarthy.
While the death of this little one was not altogether a surprise, yet there is 
the little vacant chair, the little shoes that once made hearts glad with their 
patter on the floor, the little playthings that constantly keep them in mind of 
the once bright little one that would have been their pride through life, but 
the little bud was plucked before bloom. Yet amid the keenest of sorrow, there 
is one consoling thought, he has left a cruel world of sorrow, sin and 
temptation, and gone back from whence he came, pure, sweet and innocent, with 
the little soul untarnished, where sin and moth doth not corrupt. 
Arnold Stetson Norris was borne at Weiser, Idaho, Jan. 4th, 1912, and died at 
Payette, Idaho, Dec. 30, 1916, aged 4 years, 11 months and 26 days. The funeral 
services were conducted from the Presbyterian church, at 2 o'clock, Wednesday, 
Jan. 3rd, by Rev. M. D. Reed. A large number of friends were in attendance. The 
little white casket was hidden with many beautiful floral offerings. Interment 
was made in Riverside cemetery, where the two little playmates now lay side by 
side. 

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