Kepler - Flora Louella
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 16 November 1900
Flora Louella Kepler, daughter of Mr. Samuel Kepler, was born in this city July 17, 1881, died Nov. 13, after one week’s illness from peritonitis. The funeral was conducted at the family residence, 1104 East Main Street, Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. Wallace Tharp, interment at the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery.
Flo, as she was familiarly known, was one of those jolly, affectionate, entertaining girls that loved everybody and everybody loved her. She was a regular attendant of the Christian Church and Sunday school and held high ideas of life and lived them. Her purity of character and honesty of purpose were traits of character worthy of emulation by all. She leaves behind to mourn her untimely death, a father, stepmother, one brother and sister, William and Ota, and several half brothers and sisters, together with hosts of friends.
Everything that skilled physicians and loving hands could do was done but to no avail.
It seems strange that such beautiful young lives should be cut so short, but the giver of all good doeth all things well and we must say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.”
The family has the sympathy of the entire community in their great sorrow and we can only comfort them by saying lean on Him who gave you the lovely child. - s