Robert, Their Oldest Son, is Victim of the Spanish Influenza

A severe blow has come to Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Eberlein in the death of their son, Robert, who died Sunday evening at the parental home just after ten o’clock from pneumonia, brot [sic] on by the Influenza. During his short illness of eight days, hopes for recovery have risen and fallen and the boy has improved time and again only to relapse.

The lad was ten and a half years old. He had lived long enough to show that he had it in him to become a clean and praiseworthy man. He was bright and studious and added to those qualities, industry, which made for him a bright outlook for his future. His parents had the means and inclination to give him all opportunity for the developement [sic] that was bound to be his, but God of Destinies knew best and took him unto Himself.

He was the oldest son of a family of four. He was born in this city on March 18, 1908, and has attended both the public and St. Jacobi schools, and was exceptionally advanced for one of his years. The remaining children are Michael G., William, and Marjory. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the Eberlein farm home. The Rev. Mr. Selle officiated, and the casket was carried to Woodlawn by William and Albert Beversdorf, William and Otto Regling, William Meyer, and Ed Rosseau, where the remains where laid away near the residence that has been the lad’s home. The whole county extends sincere sympathy to bereaved family.

Source: Photocopy of page from the Shawano County Journal, hand-dated October 1908