The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-21
In MemOriam
MYRTLE COOPER KyELLO

still live little; to others it is
given to live comparatively few
years and yet to live big so big
that in the span of one short
life, the fulfillment of hope and
faith and helpfulness to human
ity is reached.
Such life as the latter was
closed February 9 when Myrtle
Cooper Kvello died as the result
of the frightful burns she re-
ceived January 10. While ev-
erything that love, money and
skill could devise were done to
relieve Mrs. Kvello and to save
her life, her chance of living
was very slight one even from
the start and her sufferings
grew constantly more intense so
that death, which brought such
sadness to her family and
friends, must have been only a
welcome relief to her.
Myrtle Cooper was born at La
Crosse, Wis, August q, 1881,
and came to Redwood Falls with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
P. Cooper, in her early girlhood.
Here she was graduated from
the high school in 1899 and then
went to the Northwestern Con-
servatory at Minneapolis from
which she was graduated three
years later as a student of the
piano. With a wonderful nat
ural aptitude for music, this
training made her a master of
the piano-a gift of which she
gave most freely to her friends
and her church.
In 1904 Miss Cooper was mar
ried to Alfred Kvello, young
attorney, and they went to Lis
bon, N. D., to make their home.
To them were born two children,
Avis, now twelve years old, and
a son who died at the age CT ten
months. To the husband and
daughter left to mourn her loss,
Mrs. Kvello meant all that spells
love and home and happiness
land their loss is irreparable. The
triangle of love in the Kvello
home possessed a rare rerfec-
tion and beauty.
Beside the husband and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Kvello is survived by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
P. Cooper and her only brother,
Robt. A. Cooper. To few par
ents is given so beautiful a filial
devotion as Mrs. Kvello gave to
hers, just as to few daughters
is given such glory Of father
and-mother love as was given to
Mrs. Kvello. Her devotion
throughout her girlhood was
thoughtful and loyal and this
loyalty was proved anew every
year by the daily letter to her
mother, which was never omit
ted under any circumstances,
and her frequent visits to her
old home. Free from sentiment
tality or effusion, the bonds of
love which united Mrs. Kvello
with both her parental home and
its three inmates and the home
which he'd her husband and
child were everlasting and un-
breakab,e even by death. Her
: love and trust in her parents
was shown in the only request
: made of her husband Just be-
: fore her death, to the effect that
i in case she be taken awav. their
daughter be Placed in the care
= of Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper until she
) reaches womanhood.
Mrs. Kvello's life in Lisbon
e has been marked with service
e to her church quite in keeping
: with her other traits of charac-
: ter A consistent and faithful
. member of the Presbyterian
: Church, she had done for the
e Lisbon church a splendid work
: as it's organist and as one of its
: social workers. But perhaps ever
e more fruitful than this work
e was her work as the director
and accompanist for a Giee Club
composed of eighteen boys with
: whom she had labored for many
h months before her death. THAI
e it was a labor of love, and love
f that was reciprocated wa!
a shown when, an hour after he
= arrival at the hospital where sh'
t was taken Immediately after tn,
! accident, her room was fillet
Il with cut flowers and potte.
4 plants the gifts Of the lads VIII
$ loved her and who showed thi
n love hv Gifts and noncca UnS II,