Vail - Alma May - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Alma May Vail was born in Muncie, Ind Oct 12, 1902 and departed this life on the morning of March 25, 1918, aged 15 years, 5 months 15 days. She leaves two sisters, Nellie Mitchell and Gladys Evans. Having become an orphan in early childhood she came, Dec 24, 1910 to the good home where thereafter she was nurtured and became the adopted daughter of Mr. Grant and Mrs. Margaret(sic) Vail. She was a member of the present sophomore class of Waveland HS, and here as in all other spheres of her young life, she was dutiful and diligent, active and devoted, sympathetic and obedient and her teachers and associates honor her memory in their testimony to most excellent qualities of her disposition and character. On 27 June 1915, she made public profession of her faith in Christ her Savior, and with her foster parents, Mr. Grant and Mrs. Sarah (sic) Vail, she united with the Presbyterian Church of Waveland. She made her young Christian life beautiful and a living epistle read by all in her example of sincerity and devoted activity, for friends have noted that she was faithful in her Christian duties even to endurance and inconvenience. Funeral services at the home on Wednesday afternoon were conducted by Rev. TJ Boyer. Interment at Maple Ridge. - kbz

Alma May Vail was born in Muncie, In Oct 12, 1902, and departed this life on the morning of March 25, 1918, aged 15 Y 5M and 15 Days. She leaves two sisters, Nellie Mitchell and Gladys Evans. Having become an orphan in early childhood she came, Dec. 24, 1910, to the good home where thereafter she was nurtured and became the adopted daughter of Mr. Grant and Mrs. Margaret Vail. She was a member of the present Sophomore class of WHS and here, as in all other spheres of her young life, she was dutiful and diligent, active and devoted, sympathetic and obedient and her teachers and associates honor her memory in their testimony to most excellent qualities of her disposition and character. On the 27th of June, 1915, she made public profession of her faith in Christ her Savior, and with her foster parents, Grant and Sarah Vail, she united with the Presbyterian Church of Waveland. She made her young Christian life beautiful and a living epistle read by all in her example of sincerity and devoted activity; for friends have noted that she was faithful in her Christian duties even to endurance and inconvenience. Funeral services at the home on Wednesday afternoon were conducted by Rev. JT Boyer. Interment at Maple Ridge. In the home, as indeed in the community, her sweet life was a continuous shining because of constant, abiding virtues of innocence and purity, of unselfishness and ministering kindness. Even in the distress of illness and the ebbing of life's strength, like the Master who ministered and suffered for her, though contrary to our expectation of one of her age, she thought of the comfort of others rather than of herself. Alma has not lost in the exchange of this life for that beyond, but has infinetly gained. Here, hers was the morning of life, and now it is not the sunset, but still the morning and more brilliantly shining. In the gladness of life's bright morning the loved one has entered the gates ajar where the many mansions be. In this life's morning the Master called her away to her heavely home in the land beyond the stars where father and mother awaited her coming. In the night of death faith sees a star, "Tis Bethlehem's star; and listening love hears the rustle of a wing; 'tis the sound of angel wings we hear bearing the redeemed of the earth up and away to the Holy City, the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Those present from a distance were: Miss Jane Campbell and Misses Lillian and Mabel Vail of Fairbury, Ill; Edwin G Vail of Chicago and Mary Proctor of E. Chicago. - kbz