The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-12-28
MISS FLORENCE LYON GONE.
Her Intense Sufferings Ended by Death
Wednesday Morning.

Her Intense SuHerings Ended by Death
Wednesday Morning.
After weeks of the most intense but
most patient suffering, Miss Florence,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Frank s.
Lyon, has passed from all that this earth
has to offer of trouble and pain or of
happiness and joy. taking her departure
on wednesday morning-but one dav
after Christmas. Tomorrow at two
O'Clock the friends whom she has made
by the sweetness with which she has
endured her sufferings since she came
to this city, will meet to pay the last
sad tokens of their regard in the pres
ence of the body which she once ami
mated. She knew the odds against
which she was fighting and accepted
them with cheeriness which filed the
hearts of those who came in contact
with her with strange and kindly love
for her which leaves them better for
having known her. though sad at her
loss
The story of the suffering throught
which Miss Lyon has passed since COM
ing to this city few months ago has
been partially told. The first attack of
what proved to be appendicitis occur
red twelve weeks ago and after that
time she suffered five separate attacks
at different intervals. After the last it
was thought best to remove the appen.
dix as the last means of perhaps saving
her life. The operation was performed
Saturday and she seemed to rally from
the influence of the anaesthetic and the
shock of the operation itself, as we'll as
anyone could hope for. The danger
was not forgotten, though all seemed to
be going we'll until late on Christmas
day when she became much worse and
her sufferings became terrible during
the night. Peritonitis of most severe
type had set in causing vomitings so
severe that the post mortem which was
held the next day disclosed a fearful
rupture of the walls of the stomach it.
self as their result. In spite of both
however she lived until almost ten
o'clock the next morning, retaining her
consciousness until near the end.
The primary causes of the disorders
which resulted in the death are sup
posed to date from an injury received
by Miss Lyon three years ago last sum-
mer. She was struck by stream of
water from hose in the hands of some
firemen who were attempting to save q
burning barn belonging to an uncle
whom she was visiting in Kansas City,
and was thrown backwards and down
. into the basement. She was picked up
I. unconscious at the time and though she
{ was not hurt externally it was sus.
pected from the intense pain which she
r suffered that she had sustained severe
internal injuries. About a year ago
she was taken so i'll that she was taken
| to one of the Cleveland hospitals to un-
3 dergo an operation. The operation
seemed to be entirely successful al
| though it was a very severe one, her
condition being such as to cause sur.
! prise on the part of the surgeons that
she had been able to endure the pain
which she must have been compelled to
suffer. The same troubles were prob
/ ably responsible in large measure fol-
a the bringing on of the attacks which
have now resulted in her death.
Miss Lyon was born in Napoleon.
F.. Mich. March 10, 1881. On October 9
, 1899, she united with the Cedar Avenue
g Baptist church, of Cleveland, dedicat
ing herself to the life of medical mis-
:, sionary, which she planned to make
herself. at the same time, dedication
/. which was all the more impressive from
the fact that the new church buidin
in which her father baptized her wa,
dedicated to the service of God Oh
the same day How we'll she hac
s served the Master to whom she ther
a dedicated herself only those who know
:. her best can tell.
The most sincere sympathy of the en-
tire community has been aroused dur
a ing the illness of Miss Lyon and is now
extended to the suffering parents, the
sister and two brothers.