Ascension-Rapides County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Showalter, Viola Marie - April 29, 1905
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
May 06, 1905, Image 4


Death of Marie Showalter. - Viola Marie Showalter, the seven-year-old 
daughter of Prof. D. B. Showalter, parish superintendent of public schools, 
died in New Orleans at 8:50 o'clock Saturday night as the result of an 
attack of diphtheria following an operation for tonsilitis. The operation 
was performed in a sanitarium Wednesday morning by Dr. C. J. Langfried, a 
prominent specialist of New Orleans, and was apparently very successful, the 
little patient having been removed in the evening from the sanitarium to the 
place where Prof. Showalter had engaged rooms for his stay in the city. For 
the succeeding couple of days the condition of the child was perfectly 
satisfactory, but about 9 o'clock Friday night fever developed. Dr. 
Langfried was summoned at once and made an examination of the patient's 
throat, with the result that unmistakable symptoms of diphtheria were 
discovered. Everything that lay within the power of medical science and that 
the most devoted attention could suggest was done in an effort to stay the 
progress of the dread disease, but despite it all the little sufferer grew 
rapidly worse and breathed her last shortly before 9 o'clock Saturday night. 
Owing to the fact that death was caused by diphtheria, which is a contagious 
disease, Prof. Showalter was prevented from bringing the remains to 
Donaldsonville. He had the body embalmed and placed in a metal casket, which 
was afterwards hermetically sealed and deposited in Dr. Langfried's tomb in 
Metairie cemetery, where it will rest until the expiration of the time limit 
imposed by law for the removal of the bodies of persons who die from 
contagious diseases. Little Marie Showalter was an unsually (sic) bright and 
prepossessing child, and the entire community sympathizes with the bereaved 
parents in their great loss.


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