As a result of pneumonia following Influenza contracted
while volunteering her services to the University Infirmary, Miss Bessie Roper,
age 29, formerly of Morganton but for the past six years of Asheville, died
here Tuesday night at 12 o’clock, October 23. The young lady had been special
nurse to Mrs. Anne McDade, an aunt of Captain Isaac E. Emerson of Baltimore.
When the epidemic began its ravages to the University, she
felt it her duty to go where she was most needed. She made a sacrifice like
that of the soldier who dies for his country. Three of her patients at the
Infirmary, whose recovery was at one time in doubt, are now on the convalescent
list.
Besides her widowed mother, Mrs. Cora Roper of Ashville,
among other immediate relatives, the young lady is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Ed Clodfelter and Mrs. Benjamin of Asheville, and Mrs. E. Sid Berry of
Morganton, and two brothers, James Roper, in service in France, and Otis Roper
of Asheville.
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