Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-09-22
OBITUARY..


Valliere, died at her home in this
city last Saturday, September IL,
19C4; aged thirty-six years, six
months and twenty days. Married
May Q, 1888. She was i'll a long time.
Mrs Valliere was good woman
an affectionate wife and kind and
indu,gent mother. Funeral serv-
ices were held al the Catholic
church on Rock Greek in the Qua.
paw Reserve on Monday OF this
week and thu r :mains interre 1 in the
Catholic cemetery adjacent thereto.
The following sermon was rem
dered by Rev. Father Dannis:
"a sorrowful occurrence, my dear
friends, brought ne here together
on this day. The one that we all
loved and cherished has passed
away from this world TO receive
from the hands of her Creator the
crown of glory which she has high
ly deserved during her short earth
~ exile. In imitation of our Lord
himself her fate here has been but
sufferings and pain, but have been
changed TO everlasting glory, for
obedient to the call of her Divine
Master, like the virgins of the gos-
pei, she was prepared for the
journey, and che has gone to enjoy
forever the happiness Of heaven,
which was prepared for her, where
she will pray and intercede tor
those she left behind. All, young
and old, iearnd and unlearned, may
AXE her for an ideal, the one point
of perfection for which we all must
strive here. A life in concord with
the laws of God and of His church.
to which a happy death puts an
end only to exchange ii for better
one. for indeed to all she has been
an example of piety aud virtue.
Especially to you, wives and moth
ers. did she show how you can be
the peacemakers of your homes.
She was the strong woman OF the
gospel who could in time of trouble
and adversely keep up the GOOD
spirit and courage of husband and
children by keeping their minds
united with that of the church; by
teaching them how to submit them
selves to the holy will of God. And
che was the strong woman VINO
could. Notwithstanding all diff
culties and sickness, live up to the
rules and laws of God and OF HE
church, of which she was proud TO
be member, as she showed in ner
dailv life. OF this all those who
sur founded her are the happy wit
nesses. for who did not know her
as a profound and sincere Catholic;
who did not know her to be the
heat of all children the most de-
voted of all wives, the most loving
of all mothers, but best OF all the
most self-sacrificing OF all christ
ians for the sake of the church.
For il ia known to all, my dear
friends, that for years our beloved
deceased took care of the little
school of Quapaw; when every
thing seemed TO be against; when
everybody had given up the poor
Indian school, she, with an INDY
ing courage, for the sake OF the
children, came here to teach them
the first lessons of reading and
writing; the first lessons of the cate
chisms and the first principles OF
the holy religion.
Iftoday we have here a school
that promises much for the future;
il today we may say that the school
is prospecting for the education
both religious and mental, OF the
Indian children, il certainly is Tor a
great share to her that we owe 1t.
And even later, when sickness
forced her TO abandon a task che
had 90 willingly taken upon her,
she always followed with greatest
interest the destiny of the school,
and when che heard that finally
sisters were going to take charge
of that school of which she was
once the teacher and the director,
two weeks before she was TO return
her pure soul to God, she expressed
the desire of seeing those who
were TO coutine the work she had
begun.
Indeed, my dear friends. God has
not forgotten all what she has done
for the sake of His church, and II
He did visit her with much sick
ness and adversely, 1t wac only to
make her more agreeable to Him;
: II was only to make soul purer'
better disposed to receive the eter-
nal reward which she 10 enjoying
now. The consultations OF the
church she received in the sacra'