Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Trush, Elsie March 30, 1925
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Virginian-Pilot  April 3, 1925
HUNDREDS ATTEND FINAL RITES FOR VICTIMS OF FIRE
		
Solemn Requiem Mass Said for Mrs. Simon Trush and Children At St. Mary’s

The mother and two little girls, victims of tragic circumstance Monday morning 
when grim flames took toll of their lives, were laid to rest yesterday morning in 
St. Mary’s Cemetery, after solemn requiem mass had been conducted at the church in 
the presence of hundreds of sorrowing folk.
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There were tears not only for the dead, but for the living as Simon Trush, the 
husband and father, made his halting way into the church, his arms wrapped in the 
bandages which concealed the angry mark of the fire he tried in vain to stem in 
time to save his loved ones. And when the little white caskets of seven-year-old 
Elsie and the baby, Josephine, were carried up the aisle by reverent altar boys, 
clad in the vestments of their calling, there was many a mother in the 
congregation who clutched her own child tighter and many a father who breathed a 
silent prayer that his own little ones were united and happy.

Six pallbearers, friends of the ill-fated family, bore the larger casket, which 
contained the body of the mother who braved the fire and lost her own life in a 
desperate attempt to save her children. Side by side, the three caskets were 
placed just without the altar rail.

No Symbols of Sorrow
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In accordance with the beautiful custom of the Catholic Church when the final 
rites are performed for children who die in baptisimal innocence, the church was 
decorated not with the symbols of sorrow, but with the trappings of gladness in 
token of the spiritual reunion of the little family in the happy hereafter. Scores 
of candles cast their soft glow over the church and softened the tear stains upon 
the faces of those who wept.

“This is a moment when the heart is stirred with a hundred different emotions, one 
of which is admiration, for the great God whose designs we cannot fathom, but 
whose ways are always good," said Father P. P. Brennan, who had baptized the 
little sisters now still before him, and who had been intimately associated with 
the Trush family during the days when their home at Chapel and Falkland streets 
was as happy as anyone could ask.
	
As he went on with his sermon, Father Brennan pointed out the consolation which 
faith always gives and reminded the congregation that those for whom they mourned 
were now happy in Paradise far above earthly joys. To the father, bowed with 
grief, he gave the thought that his loved ones above would watch over and pray for 
him and be waiting to receive him when that time comes when the family will be 
reunited in a place where no earthly circumstances can sever them.

Buried Side By Side

After the services in the church, which were enhanced by the singing of the choir 
of St. Mary’s Female Academy, the solemn cortege made its way to St. Mary’s 
Cemetery, where the three white coffins were lowered together into blossom banked 
graves. Soon, three white headstones will mark the final resting place of the 
mother and her children who lie, one on her right side, the other on her left.

With Father Brennan were the Rev. E. A. Brosnan and the Rev. A. J. Taylor. The 
pallbearers for Mrs. Trush were Elck Mazetta, Peter Boyko, Nick Parkowitz, Vasil 
Lesicca, Tynatz Zemothel and Frank Boyko. The altar boys who carried the casket cf 
Elsie were Earl L. Chick, John M. McCarthy, James G. Bunce, Cornelius F. Payne, 
Thomas J. Hogan, and James M. Hayden. Those who acted in a like capacity for 
little Josephine were R. Cicero, James Whaley, John Bennett and Owen McLaughlin.

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