Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-07-02

friends and good practice. He was
member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias orders. He is
sur vived by a brother, Halbert E.
Kinney, of Spokane, Washington,
and sister, hrs. Newell Garner, of
Minneapolis. who with her husband
was 3 member of the camping party at
the time of his death.
Myrtle Frances Judd was the young
est daughter of He nry and Helen Judd
and was born April 20, 1898
AS child she showed remarkable
ability in her studies, and although
the youngest in her class in years,
ranked among the first in scholarship.
Whatever she undertook to do she did
with all her might. whether as a
child playing games or as woman at
household tasks, or in her professional
work
In her early childhood her first
school work was done in the district
school near Bloomington. Wis, until
her parents sold their farm and bought
the home in Lancaster where they
still reside. Myrtle then entered the
, Lancaster public schools and gradual
ed from the classical course of the
high school in 1909, at the age of 16
years. Her excellent stand ard of
scholarship was maintained through
out her high school course. and enabl-
ed her during her senior year to win
1st place in the Judge Mills oratori-
cal contest.
Although slightly under the legal
age for teachers, on account Of her ex-
cellent scholarship and magnetic per-
sonality she was permitted to qualify
as teacher and began the work in
September following her graduation
in the district school at Liberty. She
completed two years with great success
in that district, and the next year &C.
copied the position of primary teacher
in the schools at Viborg, S, Dakota.
This position she also filled two sue.
cessive years, but had this year re-
signed in order to prepare for a bet
ter position.
Myrtle possessed musical talent OF
no low order, both as pianist and
as soloist; she had also begun to
study the violin, and whenever she
had free moment it was spent in the
development of these talents. Her
plans to take course in music and
drawing in the Thomas Training
School at Detroit, Mich, had just
been completed.
AS child she was regular at
tendant of the M. E. Sunday School
and afterwards was an earnest worker,
both in Sunday School and Epworth
League and in the choir of the NJ.
E. church.
She was a sweet, lovable girl,
radiating sunshine, and was the life
of the house when at home, unseIish,
frank and devoted to her friends and
family. She had the gift of extract
ing happiness from every day living.
and had found life so far more sun
shine than shadow. except for the
death of her beloved father three years
ago, the first great sorrow of her life,
the death of her brother Charles Ber-
ton having occurred when she was
only six months old.
She leaves to mourn her untimely
death her mother, three sisters-Mrs.
VIM. Morkin, Bloomington, Wis. ;
Mrs. Bruce Hester, Vale, Ore. !;
Florence, two brothers Leroy and
Vern on, her fance, Mr.. Earl Han
sen, of Wasta, S. Dakota, besides a
great number of relatives and friends.
She will be greatly missed by every
one who knew her but the loss to the
family is beyond comprehension.
Lenora Edwards was the only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. G.
Edwards, and was born in the village
of Beetown July "a, 1898, her father