Henry Ernest Riney

On last Sunday morning Henry Ernest Riney, son of David Riney and Leonore Viola Moore, died of pneumonia, at the tender age of ten months. While the parents are not active members of the Catholic faith they requested that the infant in its illness receive Catholic Baptism and Tuesday morning the funeral took place from St. Patrick's church. In accordance with the Catholic ritual, the altars were decorated with flowers, the pallbearers, six tiny little girls were robed in white, the bell was tolled in a joyouse manner and the obsequies were expressive of joy rather than sorrow. According to Catholic Thelogy baptized infants, who die before they attain the use of reason immediately enjoy the beetific vision not on the title of merit as they are unable to perform good deeds but on the title of heredity. (Titulus haereditatis). Rev. D. P. Mulcahy officiated at the obsequies and the school baby choir.

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