Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-10-30
Obituary MARROW.

The Herald briefly chronicled last
week the sad and untimely death
of Dorothy NARROW, which occurred
at hospital In Minneapolis, where
she was employed as a professional
nurse
Hurricane Feb 4, 1888, and was the
youngest daughter of Geo. NARROW,
Sr. The mother now resides in
Chicago, and the father at Hurri-
cane. Brothers and sister surviv-
ing are Il c., Lancaster; S. A.,
Bloomington; j. " Seattle; j. @,
and Melvin of South Lancaster;
Mrs. U. D Kinney of Waterloo
ltownship,
1 The Minneapolis Journal on the
day following her death contained
the following touching tribute,
which we reproduce, and B. D. S.
also furnishes sketch printed Re-
low:
Dorothy NARROW, a nurse in the
city hospital, died of scarlet fever
on Tuesday. Her funeral was yes
terday, and her remains were sent
to her home III Lancaster, Wis.
She had no relatives here.
But that doesn't tell the whole
story by any means. t9t \
; Dorothy NARROW was. only 20
years old and a strikingly handsome
!, young woman, the very. picture of
Fhealth, admirably fitted in every
way for the work she had chosen.
\ Added to her physical qualifications,
which were unusual, she was
thoroughly consecrated, am bilious
above all things to be a good nurse.
She was pupil, as all the. nurses
at the, city hospital are, in some
sense. She came to the institution
last March, and in due time il fell
her turn to enter the quarantine
ward. The nurses in the quarantine
!. ward attend the cases of contagious
disease, and are completely isolated
from the rest of the hospital and
the world generally. They live
, with their patients night and day.
The post is hazardous at all times,
but 1t is seldom that nurse takes
1.-THE infection so effective are the
modern precautions.
I But it happened that the verv
day Dorothy NARROW entered the
ward, which was a week
ago last Monday, there was brought
IN little boy esperateiy sick with
i scarlet fever Il, was an extremely
malignant case, and the doctors
were of the. opinion that 'fhe. little
4 fellow GQuldn'tc possibly pull thru.
/ Andduf scoarse the danger of infec-
4 ton from a case of that cher acter is
very great indeed. 80 49,. 49, -. 80
4 But Dorothy MARROW did not
II falter. ,1Wlaen she heard the doctors
lesay that the boy was pfacticaIly.
doomed she only saw her , q
/ portunity. It was the human. kind
iness OF the girl, touched by the
.E'spectacFe eff suffering, but there
1 was a little of professional, pride
iiabout IL. too ..a.,s - s.4os ia s's9a
A Its nay first case of scarlet
4 fever, !" she said. I'D rather die
myself, than lose it," ~ =. re- '.'' ~ !.
i But she wasn't without her, mas
givings. THAT night, late, she
spoke to a wakeful patient in the
/ ward, saving that she felt, pre-
mention -waich told her she would
take the disease, s.aua /
.dsSIf ! do, G shall die" she said.
"A number Of my family have died
of scarlet fever. They all have
Predlsposition to It," smfj hil"
STILL she stood by her little boy:
hanging over him to minister
promptly to his every want, 4depriv-
ing herself OF her needful rest in
order 80 be at hand to take advantage
of any favorable moment. Even
when she began to detect the
symptoms of the disease in herself.
she did not give Up, but remained
at the bedside of her patient. .sts6
On Thursday last she had to take
TO her bed, at last, and from the
FIRST there swas almost no hope, for
the same malignant type which the
bog had exhibited speedily developed
with her: She fingered till Tues
day evening, when she: died. But
the little boy is getting we'll, and
she knew before she passed away
that hough, her first case of scarlet |
fever was to>be her last, she had not
lost it. -. s5ysg I'D IN .l5SG.I
~
.vo.y ,a5s lssso-ralsguJ .Islt |
knowledge by suffering entereth.
And life is perfected by deaE b. IL I-I}i
Like a fair rose ruthlessly cut