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Obituary

Mrs. Zillia Rosebelle Andress passed away at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Francis hospital, after six days of acute suffering from pneumonia. She was born at Nashville, Washngton county, Illinois, February 19, 1860, being the daughter of Daniel and Zilpha McCann. She has lived in Burlington for five years, having come to make her home here soon after her marriage in the spring of 1904 to Mr. B.J.J. Andress. Mr. and Mrs. Andress have occupied the old Brown home at the corner of Central avenue and Maiden Lane. Mrs. Andress bore her full part in the work of the world. She was the mother of a large family of children, and lavished upon them a wealth of love and care. Of these, however, only three survive, namely, Mrs. Mary Curtis, of Kalispell, Mont., and Frank and Ralph De Guerre, of this city. Mrs. Andress also has one living sister, Mrs. Alice Rogers, of St Louis, Mo. Mrs. Andress became a Christian in her early life and united with the Baptist church twenty-four years ago. When she came to Burlington she and her husband became members of Walnut Street Baptist church, and Mrs. Andress became an active worker in all the life and interests of that body. During the last year particularly has she been a peculiarly valuable worker in the Walnut Street Baptist Sunday school, and her class of sixteen girls was one of the most interesting and enthusiastic in the school. Her pupils were bound to her by the most devoted affection, and their sorrow at her departure is deep and heartfelt. Mrs. Andress was also secretary and treasurer of the Woman's Missionary socierty of Walnut Street Baptist church, and gave earnest attention to the work of the society. She was a good woman and was devoted to her home and to her husband and her children. She was loyal to her church and to her friends, and was always watchful for opportunities to do an unselfish service or a kindness to neighbors and, particularly, to newcomers. Many will long remember her for the cordial greeting she extended to them on their coming to the city. She had known her full share of suffering. Two years ago she was severely injured by being thrown from a buggy in a runaway, and received at the same time a severe nervous shock, from which she never fully recovered. Yet spite of the pain she endured and the strain it entailed upon her, she kept up her work and did her full part, ministering to the sick as she had strength and wearing a beaming counternance that was a fitting interpreter of her large-hearted generosity and her true sympathy for all her friends. She was a good woman, and her memory will be kept green in the hearts of all who knew at Walnut Street Baptist church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.