----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 01/30/1908

Rusch, Dorothy (Nov 1902 - 26 Jan 1908)

Dorothy Rusch, five years of age in November last, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rusch (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.), died on Sunday morning last, of pneumonia complications, after an illness of about five weeks. Thus over a happy home the shadow of a little grave has fallen; and, as another has said, it is wonderful how long a shadow a little grave will throw. This beautiful baby life was so precious, so fraught with blessing to her parents that she seemed a flower of paradise permitted to bloom for a brief time by their side, then recalled to its nature skies, leaving the earth road for them dark and lonely indeed.