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Carol Pitman Dies This Morning from Acute Appendicitis

  Miss Carol Pitman, 18, native of Preemption township, died at 5 a. m. today at Moline City hospital, Moline, of peritonitis, following an operation for acute appendicitis.
  Miss Pitman was in nurses training at the hospital when stricken Friday with acute appendicitis. She started last September. She underwent an operation Sunday and was improving until peritonitis set in, Tuesday. Effects of the flu from which she was also recovering are also believed to have been a partial cause of her death.
  She was a graduate of the Viola high school, class of 1928. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pitman of north of Viola, and a grandmother, Mrs. Carrie Pitman, of Viola.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, January 16, 1929, Sect. 2, p. 1)

Carol E. Pitman

  Carol E. Pitman, daughter of Jess and Katherine Pitman, was born July 1, 1910, on the farm south of Preemption and departed from this life on Jan. 16, 1929, at St. Anthony's hospital, aged 18 years, 6 months and 15 days.
  Carol grew to womanhood on the farm where she was born, receiving her education in the Matherville and Viola high school from which she graduated last June. The first of September she entered St. Anthony's school for nurses.
  She was always a loving and dutiful daughter, considerate in her dealings with others, always cheerful and willing to help others.
  She leaves to mourn her going, her father and mother, four brothers and two sisters, Silvis, Adeline, Joe, Emery, Betty and Dean, all at home, and a host of relatives and friends.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, January 23, 1929, p. 3)

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