The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-09-09
WILLIE M'FADDEN
HERO, is DEAD
Son Of Mrs. William McFadden Dies
at Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
After Two Years Confinement.
TusERcULAR HIP THE CAUSE
Mother Of Little Son Well Known IN
Crawford County Where She has
Many Friends.

The Review is in receipt of a clip
ping taken from the Kansas City Star
in which is recorded the death OF Will
lie McFadden, son of Mr.. and Mrs
William McFadden, formerly of Craw-
ford county, but for number of years
living in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Nc
Tadden was a daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Con Houlihan. who resided just
southeast of Denison.
The little son was buried at Hart
ington, Neb to which place the
mother had taken the boy for burial
He was laid to rest beside his father
who had preceded him to the grave
some two or three years ago.
The Star clipping is as follows:
Willie McFadden is dead. Hundreds
of persons who have visited Mercy
hospital will remember the freckled
face and the sweet, gentle manners OF
the small boy who shyly dropped his
head on one side and smiled and
dimpled in his cheeks whenever one
spoke to him. Willie had been at the
hospital almost two years. He was
Mercy Hospitals "Non-Sectarian" boy.
for his dead father was an freshman
and during his sickness at tho Mercy
Hospital, the Jewish Educational in
stitute, the Linwood Boulevard Pres
byterian Camp. the Christian Church
Minute Circle and the LongvieW Farm
had all been his friends.
Almost two years ago Willie McFad-
= To with In
bercular hip-just beginning. The
symptoms were so slight that only
long experience could have recognized
them-so slight that his mother saw
no reason TO rthe anxious looks on the
doctors faces. But times were hard
with Mrs McFadden. It's not easy to
care for three children when one has
been trained only as housemother.
and when one is not young. and the
little family cannot be left at home to
shift for itself. .i..s 80 So
Knew Willie Was Losing Ground
So Willie was left at Mercy Hospital
and came to be greatly loved. But the
fall and the winter and the spring was
long and the little boy needed the out
of-doors. He needed the DOCTORS. too,
and neither his mother nor Mercy Hos
pital could provide for him both. Even
the balcony bed had to be surrounded
with other little sufferers who con-
tamnated the air around them. and
the hospital people knew that Willie
McFadden was losing ground.
AT last. late in the summer, little
tent house at the Linwood Presbyter-
ian camp, for a short time because
Wille's home. and the air of the hills
did more for him than even the Mercy
could offer. The little body strength
ened and the limp almost disappeared.
while doctors and nurses went back
and forth and watched over him as
they had done at the hospital. But
in the fall he had to 90 back to the
balcony and for another eight months
had his only outings at little times
spent in the small yeard + the Mercy,
crowded almost as was the balcony.
A Beautiful, Beautiful" Man
The hospital people longed to be
able to send Willie out again to the
country air, which is the only cure for
such as he. Lately the Minute Circle
of the Linwood Boulevard Christian
ChuiCH ieCelNeu Hilu III LuHsVleW
farm and to one little boy, at least.
the farms owner was always after.
wards such beautiful, beautiful"
man. and Longview wonderful,
wonderful place.
But Willie McFadden had waited too
long for the playground he needed.
tuberculosis is durable. but not in
the white beds of crowded city hos
pital, and when Willie's temperature
began to rise and stupidness took the
place Of aertness. the doctors knew
that the germs 50 long active in the
| little hip. had found a Judgment in the
| brain: that tubercular meningitis with
| it's dread prognosis must be written
on the history sheet of the little lover
of the Mercy. tSNsi