Obit of Earna Alvina TIMM (b.1903 d.1908), Wabasha Co., MN ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Timm BarbaraTimm@aol.com Barbara's Homepage: http://www.megspace.com/family/achsah2/ ***************************************************************************** 04/16/1903 ~ 08/21/1908 Earna Alvina Timm (Daughter of Richard's Great-Uncle) ***************************************************************************** Earna Alvina Timm, 4/16/1903 ~ 8/21/1908 "IN MEMORIUM" MISS EARNA ALVINA TIMM The Plainview News, Plainview, Minnesota Friday, August 28, 1908 Died at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Adolph F. Timm, Earna Alvina, age 5 years on Friday, August 21, 1908. She was born April 16, 1903 and was taken ill several weeks ago with diabetes. She gradually improved for a time but before she had recovered was stricken with the whooping cough. This together with her weakened condition was more than the little body could stand and she passed away as above noted. Funeral services were conducted from the Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon, Rev. G. Drews officiating and interment made in Greenwood Cemetery. Many of the relatives and friends of the sorrowing family were present and as they looked upon the sweet placid little body in its white casket and surrounded by beautiful and fragrant flowers, yet not more beautiful or pure than the little face, within their hearts swelled with sympathy for the bereaved family. But do not let us think of Earna as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that transplanted touched by a Divine hand is blooming in richer color and sweeter fragrance than those of earth. "There is no death! The starts go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jewelled crown They shine forever more." ***************************************************************************** Note from Submitter: From a search of Encyclopedia Brittanica, 8/18/2000: The team consisting of Dr. F.G. Banting, Mr. C.H. Best, Mr. J.B. Collip and Prof. J.J.R. MacLeod discovered insulin in 1921 at the University of Toronto. While insulin is not a cure, this medical discovery has and continues to save millions of lives around the world. From a search of Encyclopedia Brittanica, 8/18/2000: The U.S. is in a peak phase for whooping cough, with almost 8,000 cases last year, twice the usual. Local outbreaks have occurred in Idaho, California, Ohio, and New York. The highly contagious respiratory tract infection, also known as pertussis, is spread by contact and marked by violent coughing spasms that can cause choking, brain damage, and death. Three hundred fifty thousand people die of the bacterial disease every year worldwide. In 1938, it killed 9,000 Americans. But the introduction of vaccine brought case numbers down to 1,000, and deaths in the U.S. to only three by 1991. Now, says the director of Idaho’s Panhandle Health District, pertussis is making a comeback. (It is suggested that lack of immunization of children may be the cause of this increase.)