- Mrs. Scott Answers The Final Summons
Sunday morning at five o'clock Delia Isabel (sic) Scott, who for the past year and a half has been a sufferer from diabetes, complicated with other ailments, passed away at her home in this city. Her death was without a visible struggle and the transition from the living to the dead was while she layed on the deathbed in a coma, being unconscious during the last few hours of her life.
Saturday afternoon she began to sink rapidly and members of the family were summoned, as also the family physician, who watched over the ebbing life until four the next morning, when her respiration, which had sank to a very dangerous point, began to rise, but this improvement was only temporary, for within an hour she breathed her last.
Suffering from a malady which became chronic and all that medical skill employed proved of no avail, yet she was patient and resigned to her fate. Her son Elmer, who had left on a business trip to Lincoln Saturday was reached at that place and summoned home after her death.
The deceased was a former resident of this city, and was bereaved by the death of her husband nine years ago. she also resided in Elba and Cushing, removing here from the latter place to be near her family Physician. Her death resulted from dropsy augmented by other ailments and the attack of diabetes.
Mrs. Scott was born in Davis county, Iowa January 20, 1865 and died in this city Sunday morning, August 7, 1921, aged 56 years six months and ten days. She was the mother of nine children, seven of whom survive her namely: Mrs. Meda Petersen, of Cushing, John Leroy; Howard Wesley; Junis Nelson; Floyd Wallace; Clarence Harley; and Elmer Clayton. Andrew Alex died in infancy, and Nellie May preceded the mother on Sept. 2, 1917.
Mrs. Scott is survived, in addition to the above named children, by a sister, Elizabeth Francis of Redding, Iowa, and a brother, John Crouch also of Redding, and two half brothers, J. W. Crouch of this city, and Oscar Hoops of Des Moines, IA., also a half sister, Ida Crouch of Cushing.
She had been a member of the Church of God about three years. Funeral and services were held Monday at two o'clock and interment made in Elmwood cemetery.
Howard County Herald Thursday 11 Aug 1921, p. 1
Nebraska, U.S., Index to Deaths
Name Delila I Scott
Death Date 1921
Death Place Howard, Nebraska, USA
Certificate Number 6970
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1865 - 1921 (56 years)
