The Delta independent., 1918-11-08
VERA SCOTT SIMON YIELDS
UP LIFE FOR HER COUNTRY

Word was received here last week
that Vera Scott Simon, elder daughter
Of l. ". Scott Of this city, had passed
away at Fort Riley. Kansas, after
few days Illness of influenza The
lady, who was a skilled trained nurse
had been in camp but eight days.
When the terrible scourge struck
the camps and the government issued
a call for trained nurses, but few re
sponded Mrs. Simon was located at
Wichita and with fourteen other won.
en- patriots went TO Fort Riley to min.
ister the sick She was captain OF
the party and her work was indeed
haly work. but through some strange
mysterious dispensation Of Providence
she was forced to give up the struggle
on October 10. 1918.
The body was dressed in full uni.
form of the Red Cross. the casket
wrapped in splendid six foot flag,
the emblem Of the cause for which
she died. and after lying in state at
wichita for several hours was laid
rest at Garnet, Kansas. October 22
the Home Guards OF that city having
charge of the service. The burial was
at the home town OF her husbands par
ents. he being an army surgeon in
France. He is DIR. w. f. Simon who
ahsN volunteered his services 10 his
country's needs.
Mrs. Si.ro on was a beautiful charact.
er. in VIII Sc praise the mightiest lang
uage IL Inadequate Her death falls
with shocking force upon her family
since within the last two years and
four months three Of the sisters and
brothers have been claimed by death
Earl Scott passed away June %. 1916,
and Pauline Scott followed him Sept
ember 23 of the same year both being
victims of typhoid fever.
Besides other relatives. there is left
Of the Immediate family to mourn her
loss. her husband. her father. two
brothers, r. w. Scott of Grand Juno
ton and l.. b. Scott Of Delta and one
sister. Miss Helen Scott, also of Delta.
The following article which was TAX
en- from the Wichita Eagle, Is beau
tiful tribute to her character
know but little Of the private life
of Mrs. Simon-whether she walked
the path of luxury and affluence, or
trod the ways OF the meek and lowly
Nazarene. but ! do know that neither
hardship nor danger could abate her
holy zeal. and she gave her life in
the jservice OF her country. a.
know that she has given us the
g-andest example OF h'man sac-iri,A
that the world affords. Even Christ
prnyed in the Garden OF Gethsepane.
.If 1t be possible let this CUP pass
from me-" but Mre Simon pressed
cup almost as bitter to her own lips
and drained 1t to the dregs-died Tor
the sake of suffering mortals death
to which the cross might have been n
r.iercy--from the scourge of in 'iuehzo,
When the dread disease broke out
| the army camps at the United States
the country called for every 'rained
nurse available. but II appears that
10 the flu-ridden camps where insn
we're dying by the hundreds | blar1e
no woman for declining the sacrifice
To place the foot In lie flu-ridden
camps meant every exposuTe to death
from the dreaded disease. yet Mrs.
simon left her home and friends and
went deliberately forth TO die II needs
be for suffering humanity. There she
minitered with her own hands to our
afflicted sons and there she died as
she knew she might in the service of
the country.
Tier body has gone back to the dust
from whence II came and her soul to
the GOO who gave-from a duty well
performed and no eulogy but truth
may say, earth never piIlowed on her
bosom n nobler daughter. or heaven
opened wide her portals to receive a
more womanly spirit.