Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-09
APPRENTICE NURSE
DIES AS MED|CS TRY
TO SAVE HER LIFE
MISS LOUISE UHL, STUDENT AT
RYEURN HOSPITAL, EXPIRES
WHILE UNDERGOING AN oPER.
ALTON.

Miss Louise Uhl, a student nurse at
Ryburn Memorial Hospital and one Of
the best known and best loved girls
in the city. died last evening about 10
o'clock on the operating table while
an incision for mastoid
The news of Miss Uhls sudden death
was received with a great shock to
her many Ottawa friends, who knew
she had been i'll the last two
weeks, suffering from tonsilitis and
an abscess in the head. but all of
whom thought her to be well ON the
road to recovery.
She was taken i'll while on duty at
the hospital and went to the home
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee II.
Uhl, 800 Webster street, to remain
until she got we'll She recovered
from the attack of tonsilitis, and had
been able TO be up and around for
several days. ana was even well
enough to walk down 10 the office OF
her physician to receive treatment
for her ears. Yesterday afternoon she
became critically i'll, and an examina-
tion showed that she was suffering
from mastoid and would have to IN.
dergo an operation within a few hours
if she were TO live.
She was taken to Ryhurn Hospital
about $50 last evening. and prepara-
tions were made for a speedy opera
forming the operation, and Dr. s f,
Parr had administered the anesthetic.
Everything possible was done to pro
long her life, but it was impossible
TO save her.
The decedent had resided in Ottawa
all her life. She was 30 years old on
March T. She attended the Ottawa
public schools and the ottawa Town
ship High School, and was graduated
from the latter institution in the class
of 1918. On July she entered Ry-
burn Hospital to train as a nurse She
was well adapted to the nursing work,
and her ability for cool. quick think
ing and her sympathetic nature had
| caused the heads of the institution
| and the physicians of the city to pre-
diet a wonderful future for her.
She was of a sunny disposition md
was general favorite among all Wis
| itors and patients at the hospital as
| well as among the other nurses.
! Miss Uhl is the first student nurse
| to die in Ryburn Hospital. and her
| death is looked upon as a tragedy by
| the heads of the institution and her
| class mates. Her loss il one that is
being keeniy felt by her associates.
| She was an active member of Christ
Episcopal Church
Surviving besides her parents she
leaves one sister, Miss Victoria Uni :;
also by her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. John l.. piergue.
Felix Devaney.
Felix Devaney died yesterday at his
home, 412 East Van Buren, street
after an illness of several months
duration of paralysis.
Mr., Devaney was well known re
tired farmer and had resided here foI
the past ten years, coming from near
Seneca He was born in Grundy
County March 20, 1851, but resided or
the Devaney farm south of Seneca
practically all his life until he moved
to Ottawa. When but a boy his par
ents. the late Felix and Sarah De
vaney, died, leaving him an orphan
On April 80 1874, he was united il
marriage with Mary A. Coughlin.
Surviving, besides the widow, h
leaves three sons and two daughters
,, John of Aberdeen s, D.; William p. o
this city, Frank f. of Seneca, ant
Misses Margaret and Sadie, residini
at home.