The entire community was very much saddened last Sunday morning to learn of the death about ? o’clock of little Marvin Warrick after an illness of but a single day. He seemed as well as usual Saturday morning and helped his father work on the lawn, carrying the grass away in his little wagon. He was taken sick about 9 o’clock with intestinal trouble and passed into a stupor in an hour or so from auto-intoxication from which he never rallied. Everything that three physicians could do was done for the little fellow but his system had become so poisoned the heart gave out and death was the inevitable result.

The funeral was held at the Congregational Church at 2:30 yesterday afternoon, Dr. H. J. Sealey officiating, assisted by Rev. C. M. Foreman. The church was more than filled with the friends and sympathizers and the floral offerings were exceptionally large and beautiful. The day was a perfect one for the funeral exercises and the entire service was an only son and brother and it was very hard for the parents and four sisters to give him up, but even though he lived but a little over six years, having been born March 21, 1916, the joy he gave his parents and sisters and the love they gave him isn’t lost; it has now become a sacred and beautiful memory that will have its influence throughout the balance of their lives. As a child we didn’t appreciate what the poet Tennyson meant when he wrote “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. There is a refining and ennobling influence about true love that leaves its mark upon character of all who experience it. This only son, there being four daughters, had been the recipient of unfold love since the day of his birth. He is dead, but the love he inspired can never die. And, this love was not given by the parents, sisters and relatives only, it was shared by all who knew the sweet faced little fellow, and thus his short life has not been in vain. The bereaved family have the deepest sympathy of many friends, as was shown by the large attendance at the funeral services and the large number of floral offerings sent.

Those present to attend the funeral service from out of town were Mrs. Warrick’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Dean, of Missouri Valley, Ia. Three sisters, Mrs. J. P. Egan and husband and children, of York; Mrs. E. R. Brotherton and husband and family and Mrs. J. L. Daub and husband and family of Missouri Valley. Also two brothers, B. F. Dean and wife and family, of Missouri Valley and W. H. Dean, of Norfolk. Four of Mr. Warrick’s sisters, Mrs. Frank A. Niday and husband and daughter; Mrs. Albert Stubbe, Mrs. Elmer Lee and Miss Mary Warrick, all of Cordon, Ia. A cousin, Fred Egan, an attorney from Missouri Valley, Mrs. Otis Grayers?, of Columbus a former neighbor, and many other old friends from Iowa.

#2 Warrick, Marvin, 6

Died 6 August 1922

Burial in Blair Cemetery

Published in Enterprise on 10 August 1922

Little Marvin Warrick, six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Warrick of this city, passed away last Sunday morning at about six o'clock. He had apparently been in normal health on the previous morning and had gone uptown on an errand for his mother.

At about nine o'clock Saturday morning he took a chill and the physician was called but he grew rapidly worse and from the beginning the physicians held out but little hope and at about six o'clock Sunday morning the little one's spirit wended its way to its Maker. To Mr. and Mrs. Warrick the shock was almost unbearable, coming as it did so unexpectedly and so suddenly, it fairly overcame them.

Kind friends, of which Mr. and Mrs. Warrick are blessed with numbers, did all they could under the circumstances to assist in every way possible and lessen the terrible strain of the shock.

Marvin was next to the youngest in a family of five children and the only son. He was a bright active little fellow and the idol of his parents who grieve much over their great loss.

The funeral service conducted by Rev. Sealey assisted by Rev. Foreman was held at the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon and interment was made in the Blair cemetery where the remains were followed to its last resting place by a host of friends who sought in this was to show their sympathy and respect for the bereaved parents.

"Suffer the little children to come unto me-For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."

All of the relatives of little Marvin with the exception of two were present to pay their last respects to his memory.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~