OBIT: Death Notice of Herbert BECK, 1930, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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HERBERT BECK

Death Enters Beck Family
Herbert, Dear Little Son of Missionary Parents, Taken From Them
HANKOW, China, Sept. 27, 1930.

Dear Friends:
  Since I last wrote to you our home has passed through a great trial.  Our dear 
little Herbert was taken from us.  He died of dysentery and typhoid fever in the 
Country Hospital at Shanghai.  Mrs. Beck telegraphed me to come to his bedside.  
I left Yochow September 5th, and I was with Herbert and the family for a week 
before his death.
  Though Herbert was very, very ill, yet we were so confident that he would be 
spared to us.  But he has left us to plod along through the trails of a 
precarious life without the encouragement of his winsome smile and amusing 
mannerisms.
  I had hoped that Mrs. Beck would stay in Shanghi for a few months in order 
that the children might have the advantage of the good American school there, 
and because conditions in Hunan are still so unsettled.  However she felt that 
she could not endure to face the future without Herbert and with our family so 
far separated.  So she and David, Eva and Mae are with me traveling up the 
Yangtze River.  If on reaching Hankow we find it inadvisable for the family to 
accompany me to Yochow, they will stay, for the present, at Hankow.  I shall 
proceed as soon as possible to Yochow.
  We all feel that China is in a terrible mess.  It is very interesting to me to 
read the occasional comments on the situation by leading Chinese.  In 
yesterday's paper I saw a suggestive comment by one of the leading Chinese 
educators of today.  The heading of the article ran, "Inherent Humour of China 
Will Lead to Ruin."  I quite disagree with some of the observations and 
inferences of Dr. Lin, yet the article puts its finger on some very interesting 
and significant facts, so I shall clip the article and insert it with this chit.
  Very sincerely yours, 
     Karl H. Beck

Meyersdale Republican, October 23, 1930