----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 07/20/1893

Sterns, Stella (MAR 1871 - 18 JUL 1893)

Stella M. Sterns died at her home on the North Side about four o'clock Tuesday morning, July 18th. Her illness began in the form of lung fever, and finally culminated in quick consumption. Her age was 22 years and four months. She was born and grew to woman hood in Neillsville, Clark County. Passing through High School, she became a teacher in surrounding schools with such success that she had been engaged to teach one of the departments in our city schools for the coming year.

As a school girl she was remarkable to precocity and aptness, and as a teacher she was conscientious and painstaking. She was retiring in her nature and shrank instinctively from contact with society at lare, yet to those who knew her well, she will always be remembered for her universal sympathy for all that is good, for her peculiar and original humor and rare appreciation for the finer human qualities and of the best things that have been thought and said.

Never did the Death Angel fan out in his somber flight a surer ray of life than just wafted away. Her personal beauty was the index of the keen intellect and pure, high born soul within. The few who learned to know her through close acquaintance, will live better and have a stronger trust in human nature because they knew her.

To her mother and brothers this last of many bereavements will bear down with heavy hand. No words can console, no voice silence the questioning of life and its meanings at such times, nor lift the awful loneliness. Not till pleased Memory brings up the vision of the good days gone to be lived over again in thought, and Hopes speaks of the eternal Goodness that must finally bring the best to all, can the clouds show their argent lining but hope will speak, for it is God's own voice, and the stricken strings will always vibrate to the refrain:

"Brighter, fairer far than living,
With no trace of woe or pain,
Robed in everlasting beauty,
We Shall see them once again.
By the night that never faileth,
Underneath eternal skies.
When the dawn of resurrection
Breaks in deathless Paradise."

The funeral will be held at the residence Friday morning at 10:30.