Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Wilfong, Forrest 1920
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New Plymouth Sentinel 5-28-1920
New Plymouth Sentinel
New Plymouth, Idaho
Friday, May 28, 1920

PLYMOUTH BOY DIES

Forrest, the sixteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wilfong, passed away at 
the home of his parents, west of New Plymouth, Friday, May 21. Funeral 
services were held at the Breather Church in Fruitland and the burial took 
place at Parkview Cemetery at New Plymouth.

Over two years ago it appeared that something was wrong with his health. The 
family became interested. Tests proved that he was afflicted with diabetes. 
That dread disease with which adults may, under careful treatment, live for 
years, but children and youths seldom survive beyond a few short months and 
years. The condition was at once recognized as grave. Every effort was made to 
affect a cure if cure might be possible. Expense, time, labor, effort, 
everything known and available was brought to bear upon the case. Nothing was 
spared. It was a fight of loving parents for the life of a dear one. The fight 
was well made. But fate was against those who so diligently strove to conquer 
the inevitable. The end has come. The grave has claimed another body; Heaven 
another soul. Playmates of his childhood and associates of his youth will miss 
him. To the home to which he brought light, pleasure and hope, there is, and 
can be, no relief from the sadness which now fills it. Time may lessen the 
acuteness of the bereavement but the loss is irreparable. The place cannot be 
filled. Loving heart will ache. Heavens brightest sunshine cannot dispel the 
shadow which deaths dark clouds have cast around the home. Mortal man cannot 
relieve the sorrow which fills the hearts of those who mourn his loss. But if 
the sympathy of generous friends who would gladly bear a share of the burden 
of sorrow for them, and the sympatric pulsation of hearts who have felt such 
sorrow from experience to recent to be forgotten, could in some small measure 
assuage the grief which now fills the home, such sympathy from the depths of 
such souls would gladly be given to the sorrowing family. More than this we 
cannot do. We would counsel them to forget. But memory stands like adamant 
while life exists. Sorrow may be lessened but not forgotten. Such clouds may 
be driven away for a time by the brighter lights of life, but life’s sunshine 
can never be as clear as before. He was a part of life’s bright sunlight. But 
he is gone. But there is a measure of relief in knowing that his sufferings 
are over. He will not need feel the sorrows which fill human lives, the 
sufferings which fall to mortal man are no longer his, the sins of Earthly 
life cannot tempt him and the pains of flesh can not torment him. He passed 
before the darker part of life had overtaken him. His body is at rest. His 
soul is in peace.

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