Robert Ellis Lindsay

   Cause of his death was Polio.

Onarga Leader & Review
Thursday, September 26, 1929
p. 7

Robert Ellis Lindsay

Robert Ellis Lindsay, son of Lloyd Franklin and Dolly Looker Lindsay, was born at Onarga, Illinois, May 8, 1926, and departed this life at the Gilman Community hospital, September 20, 1929, at the age of three years, four months and twelve days.

Robert was a child of sunny disposition, and had always been unusually well. He was taken acutely ill Tuesday, September 17, and, though he received all the care that could be given by medical skill and loving hands, he passed away Friday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock.

God in His infinite wisdom chooses the most beautiful flowers on earth for His own, just as we in picking a bouquet from our garden select the most promising buds. So he has gone to be a flower in God's great bouquet of love.

Nearly every Sunday since he was three weeks old, Robert had been in the house of God. He attended the Sunday school of the Onarga Christian church and displayed great interest in the teachings, only recently asking his mother how he could see God. Little was it thought that when he was in his place in the Sunday school last Sunday that within a week his question would be answered.

Besides the bereaved parents, he leaves to mourn his loss, his grandparents, Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Looker and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lindsay of Onarga: three aunts, Mrs. Ellis Hildenbrand of Buckley, Mrs. Kenneth Jackson of Dousman, Wisconsin, and Miss Grace Looker of Onarga; two uncles, Mr. Olin Looker of Watseka and Mr. Lester Lindsay of Onarga.

"Beckoning hands of a little one see!
Little one's voice calling, "O Mother, to thee"
Rosy-cheeked darling, the light of our home,
Taken so early, is beckoning come.

Funeral services were held at the Onarga Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, September 22, at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Burl H. Candler, pastor of the Onarga Christian church, with Rev. E. W. Wenzel, pastor of the Onarga Presbyterian church, assisting. Sweet music was furnished by Miss Gwendolyn Frazee, who sang a solo, and by a male quartette composed of Archie Fisher, Howard Whiteside, John Eversole and Corliss Jones. Bruce Amerman was at the organ. The Misses Verna Lee, Edith Lee, Nola
Clarkson, Lucille Stratton, Ruth Hockersmith, Avanell Richards, Dorothea Bostwick and Norma McGuire assisted in carrying the floral pieces which were numerous and beautiful. Willis Schumers, Virgil Greiner, Ruel Taylor and Raymond Wilson acted as pallbearers. Interment was made in the Onarga cemetery.

The out-of-town relatives who were here for the services were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jackson and Mrs. Ethel Thomas of Dousman, Wisconsin; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koon and family of Watseka; Mrs. Maggie Pease, Mrs. Edith Duff, Mr. and Mrs. Truman Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Dial, Mrs. Flossie Miller of Gilman; Mrs. Eva Miller of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wood of Joliet and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lindsay of Champaign.

Collapsed in home (per Doris Lindsay).

  Events

• He was buried at Onarga Cemetery in Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois.