Mitchell - Doris
Source: Waveland Independent Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana April 15, 1921
On December 20th 1903 there came to brighten the house of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Mitchell like a ray of sunshine or a gentle flower a baby girl who was given the name Doris. For more than 17 years she lingered here but the sun does not always shine and the flowers do not always bloom in this world and on March 31, Doris journeyed to another home where sunshine and flowers are eternal. Her short life was spent in the community of her birth. Here she attended school winning the friendship of her school mates and teachers by her gentleness and graduating from the Howard Township school with the class of 1920. In such times as this it is human nature to wonder. Even as little children we wonder why such a thing should be for we see as through a glass darkly and we do not understand. But Doris understands, for to her it is not the end of life, but the beginning of a life without limitation without pain or suffering or care or sorrow and I believe could those who loved her see her now they too would understand. Doris leaves a place in this home which can never be filled. Her sorrowing father, mother, three brothers, Earl, Glen and Donald, two sisters, Mrs. Fred Myers and Ruby, know this as do all of us who sympathize with them, but we know she has gone to fill a larger place in a better home, and to be reunited with a loving sister, Jewell who preceded her August 5, 1918. Besides the immediate family named above, Doris leaves three grandparents many other relatives and friends limited only by the number who knew her. While her life here was short as earthly lives are reckoned the mission for which she came was as complete as tho she had lived the allotted three score and 10 and we bow to the will of Him whose decisions are always wise. - trascribed by kbz