OBITUARY.
THOMAS M. JORDAN : aged 10 years
It will be with feelings of deepest regret that the public will learn of the death of Master Thomas Morrison Jordan, only son of Mr and Mns J. S. Jordan, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, which occurred at the Lake County hospital this morning at six o’clock. On Friday last the lad went off to school as usual, but early in the day he developed sickness and was sent home by his teacher. The usual home remedies were applied and the boy appeared to recover from the early symptoms. However, next evening a recurrence of the trouble set in and medical aid was summoned. Appendicitis was diagnosed and the little patient was conveyed immediately to the hospital and operated on, when it was found that peritonitis had supervened. Though his condition was then regarded as somewhat serious he seemed to gradually gather strength as next day advanced. However, last evening weakness overtook him again and he did not rally, the silver cord being severed with the morning light. The deepest sympathy will he felt for Mr and Mrs Jordan in their great grief.
“Tom” was just a little chap — ten yeans of age — but not too small to play a straight game all through, as his schoolfellows knew. ‘Oxenham' thus expresses it —
“Though his years were but few
He did keep himself true;
He did look to the Light
And keep his soul white.”
Of robust physique, he never ailed, and was a clear-eyed, attractive and highly intelligent lad. Taken in his yeans of innocence he has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence of an all-wise Father. “Of such," we are taught, “is the Kingdom of Heaven.”
The funeral will leave his parents’ residence, Frankton road, tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 p.m. -Lake Wakatip Mail, 11/3/1924.
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