Payette Enterprise
Thursday, April 19, 1917
Friday afternoon the word of Miss Marian Lewis Stetler's sudden death threw the whole community again into sorrow. It came as a shock to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Stetler and to her aunt, Miss Annie Rupp, as they were making the day one of her happiest, granting all her birthday wishes, and to her classmates - the Freshman class - as they had planned a birthday shower for her at the close of the day. But the Heavenly Father planned otherwise and in our sorrow we bowed to His will knowing that "the Father who loveth all knoweth what is for the best" and that "lengthened breath is not the sweetest gift God sends his child, but sometimes the sable pall of death conceals the fairest gift His love can send."
Marian was born in Chicago, April 13, 1902 and came with her parents to Fruitland in 1910 when she entered the Fruitland school. She has always been a general favorite and leader in her classes. Marian was a faithful and interested member of the Chelola class of the Methodist Sunday School, being the vice president, and has been greatly missed by the whole Sunday School during her illness. She was also a member of the Queen Esther Missionary Society of which she was organist. Marian was brought home from the Hospital three weeks ago after a stay of ten weeks, following an operation for appendicitis. Death was due to Pulmonary embolism. She made a brave fight and everything was done that could be for her recovery. She was a beautiful character - bright, happy and the light and life of her home. During her sickness she was planning some happy occasions with her friends for the summer, when she hoped to be well again. She leaves besides her parents and aunt, a little sister, Helen Ruth. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the home where many of her friends and friends of the family gathered. Rev. C. L. Walker officiated. A quartet from the Men's Glee club sang several beautiful selections, "Go to thy Rest," "Crossing The Bar," and "Going Down the Valley." Six of the freshmen boys acted as pall bearers. Interment was made in Riverside Cemetery, Payette, Idaho. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of the whole community.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many kind friends and neighbors for their loving kindness to our beloved daughter and niece during her long illness and death.
A. A. STETLER AND FAMILY
ANNIE R. RUPP
Fruitland Banner (Friday, April 20, 1917)
Marian Lewis Stetler Dies after a Long Illness
Marian Lewis Stetler, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Stetler, passed away at the Stetler home last Friday afternoon, after being sick for several months. Death came on her fifteenth birthday and at a time when her recovery seemed somewhat hopeful, after a sickness fraught with one complication after another, when the end came quite suddenly as a result of pulmonary embolism.
The funeral services were held from the home Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. C. L. Walker.
The deceased was a member of the freshman class of the Fruitland high school and leaves a host of schoolmates, friends and associates to mourn her loss.
