The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-03-16
Death Of Mrs. Sidney Vega.


Practically every heart in Donal5-E
sonville experienced keen pang OF.
sorrow when the announcement was
made last Monday that Mrs. Sidney
Vega, the widely-beloved wife of DR..
Sidney Vega of this city, was dead,
The sad intelligence was contained
in a telegram received by DR.. Vega
Monday afternoon from Louisville,
Kentucky, to which city Mrs. Vega
had gone several weeks ago to sub
nit to a minor surgical operation.
The operation was performed in due
course at St. Anthony's Hospital in
Louisville by DR.. R. H. Wathen, an
uncle of Mrs. Vegas, and was ap-
parently entirely successful. A few
days later it was deemed necessary
to perform a second operation, and
this Vas undertaken Monday morn
ing. The shock proved zoo great for
the patient in her weakened condi-
ton, and death ensued shortly after
she had been removed from the OPP
Grating table.
Mrs. Vega was before her marriage
Miss Maude Wathen, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. N. Wathen, of
Lebanon, KY. She was married to
DR.. Vega about ten years ago, and
their union was blessed with four
children, two of whom, Sidney and
Clarke, are left to mourn the loss OF
their devoted young mother. The
other children, a boy and a girl,
died several years ago. Besides her
husband and sons, Mrs. Vega is sur
I ryiuo Inv i,n thrOa
| Edward C. Wathen, of this city, and
Messrs. John and Richard Wathen,
| of Lebanon, and four sisters, Mrs.
Thomas Medley of greensboro, Ky,
and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mrs. Will
Abel and Miss Louise Wathen, of
Lebanon.
The funeral took place at Lebanon
Wednesday, the rites of the Catho-
lie church, of which religion Mrs.
| Vega had been an earnest and faith
full adherent, being carried out at
the church and grave. DR.. Vega
and Master Sidney Vega left for
Lebanon Monday afternoon to at
tend the obsequies. The other son,
Clarke, had gone to Kentucky with
his mother several weeks ago.
/ D
tractiye personality and great prom
inence and popularity. By her charm
ing manners, unfailing cheerfulness
and gentle, womanly tact, she had
made for herself "a wide circle of
admiring friends and acquaintance
in this community and wherever she
| was known, and her untimely de-
miseehas created a void which will
/ be most difficult to fill. Why one
so useful, so accomplished and so
| loyable should be called away at a
| time when her presence seemed to
/ be most desirable, is a problem for
which we poor mortals here below
| have no answer in any measure sat
/ isfactory, and it is left to those who
/ see nothing but wisdom and Justice
IN ali the prov { = ispan=
sations of the Great Ru1er5of the
j Universe to say with sublime sub
mission, Thy will be done, and de-
i pend upon Him to some day make
all these things plain. 84 s
| The Chief expresses its profound
sorrow at the death of this gifted
! and beleVe young ma tron. and ten.
ders its armest synpa les to those
i who have suffered a grief so tWeigh ty
and over PIONEERING Time alone can
/ mitigate the poignancy of such "a
I loss.
There is no death; what seems
4 so is transition;
4 This life of mortal breath
/ Is. but the subway of the life
Elysian,
Whose portals we call Death.