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Fannie Muma Obituary - August 25, 1898
Thursday, August 18, at midnight, occurred the death of fannie Muma, one of the brightest and pleasantest young ladies of out town. Although it was tho't that Fannie would not live long, as she was afflicted with that dread disease consumption, the end came sooner than was expected, and everyone was shocked and pained to hear the sad news.
At 11 o'clock that night, feeling the approach of death, she called her mother to her bedside and talked calmly of her departure, saying it was in answer to prayer that she should not linger and suffer and then breathed her last in her mother's arms.
For the last few years she has spent much of her time with her sister, Mrs. Jennie Freebern, at Lincoln, Neb., attending the high school there, from which she would have graduated in a short time. Last January she was taken with hemorrhages, and since that time her friends have known only too well the result to expect.
Her funeral took place sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Congregational church. Rev. J. W. Fox conducted the services taking for his text John 13:7, "what I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." A quartette, composed of Charles Gunn, Joseph
Olson, Bertha Opper and Kate Brando sang several selections, after which her body was laid to rest by the side of her two brothers, Samuel and Charlie, and two sisters, Grace and Mary, all of whom have died within the last ten years of the same disease.
Their father, mother, one sister and five brothers are left to mourn their loss. Mr. and Mrs. George Freebern and children, of Lincoln, Neb., came to attend the funeral; also a brother Herbert, from the same place, and Harry Muma from Chicago.
Fannie was only 19 year old, but her life, though short, will be a beautiful memory to those who knew her, as her name and bright smile will always be associated together.
One year ago in July she united with the congregational church in Granville, and her Christian character has been shown in her life and in her hope of life beyond. Her sunday school classmates of young ladies were present at the funeral in a body, bringing a wreath of sweet peas and another floral design, showing the loving remembrance in which she was held by them.