ETHEL SHRIMPLIN QUILLIN

MRS. J. L. QUILLIN, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. A. R. SHRIMPLIN OF THIS CITY, PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT SIX O’CLOCK AT MERCY HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO. SHE HAD BEEN ILL WITH A COLD FOR A FEW DAYS AND ON SUNDAY MORNING PNEUMONIA DEVELOPED AND SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND RELATIVES NOTIFIED. HER FATHER AND SISTER, MRS. BERTHA BOONE WITH WHOM SHE MADE HER HOME IN CHICAGO WHILE HER HUSBAND WAS SERVING IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY IN FRANCE, HER OLDER SISTER, MRS. JESSIE DALTON OF INDIANA, AND DR. QUILLIN’S PARENTS OF GRAND ISLAND, NE., WERE AT THE BEDSIDE WHEN THE END CAME.

MRS. QULLIN’S MAIDEN NAME WAS MISS ETHEL SHRIMPLIN. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO DR. J. L. QUILLIN AND THE HOME WAS ESTABLISHED IN STREATOR, IL. WHEN THE UNITED STATES ENTERED THE WAR DR. QUILLIN VOLUNTEERED FOR SERVICE AND FOR SEVERAL MONTHS HAS BEEN IN FRANCE. HE WAS RECENTLY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF CAPTAIN AND TWO WEEKS AGO WROTE THAT HE WAS AWAITING ORDER TO SAIL FOR HOME. IN A LETTER TO HER PARENTS MRS. QUILLIN WROTE ENTHUSIASTICALLY OF HIS WORK AND WAS PLANNING TO MEET HIM IN NEW YORK UPON HIS ARRIVAL. HE WAS NOTIFIED BY CABLEGRAM OF HER CRITICAL ILLNESS, BUT AS NO REPLY WAS RECEIVED IT IS PRESUMED THAT HE IS ON THE HOMEWARD VOYAGE. THE BODY WAS PLACED IN A RECEIVING VAULT IN CHICAGO AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF HER HUSBAND.