grave import

Obituary

The host of friends in Burlington were aware of the fact that Miss Gladys Ziegler was a very sick girl. They knew that the parents had been summoned to her bedside, and that messages from them were not encouraging, but they continued to hope against hope. They could not reconcile themselves to the belief, that one so young, so fair, so rich in happy gifts, so full of promise, should be called away, just as she was beginning to prepare for real work in this world. When one passes, who has passed the age allotted to man, we are wont to console ourselves with the thought that the circle has been closed and that it had to be so. When a little blossom fades and dies, there is always the thought, that perhaps after all it is better so. But when a younger person, just in the very pride of youth, is summoned hence, there is little consolation except in the recollection of her goodness and kindness, her graceful ways, her affection for all who had come into the circle of her acquaintanceship, her desire to serve and to be helpful. When she is laid away in Aspen Grove, perhaps it will be meet to quote the familiar lines of the American poet:
And then I think of one who, in her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up and faded by me side;
In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leaf,
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;
Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours.
So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.

Gladys L. Ziegler was born in this city, October 25, 1895, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.R. Ziegler, of No. 837 Franklin street. She attended North Hill school, where she was a prime favorite with teachers and classmates, and went to the High school. where she was beloved by all and was one of the honor students of her class, graduating in 1913. She went from there to Stout's Institute of Domestic Science at Menomonce, Wis., and had just entered upon her second year at that institution, when the disease developed, that made such rapid inroads and caused her death, despite everything that could be done to stay the hand of the destroyer. Her final illness was of brief duration. She took to her bed last Monday, the family were notified on Tuesday, and on Friday morning at 8:30, she passed on into the beyond. Miss Ziegler was a faithful member of the First M.E. church and Sunday school, and there, as elsewhere there will be sad hearts and genuine grief for this beautiful girl. She is survived by the parents, a brother, Ralph, and a sister, Helen. The remains will arrive here at 7 o'clock this morning and the funeral services will take place at the family home, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. The friends are invited to the services, which will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. L.B. Schreckengast, a relative of the family, a former pastor of the local First M.E. church here, now busy in the good work in Nebraska. The interment will be private. And while all that is mortal of her will rest in Aspen Grove, her memory will live with all who knew and loved this sweet, dependable young woman.