Thursday morning, September 6, at 6:30 Milo Windus, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Windus of Protection died unexpectedly at the Wesley Hospital at Wichita where he had been an operative patient for about a week.He had gone to the Wesley Hospital Thursday of last week. On Friday, he was operated on for appendicitis. As his case was not considered a serious one, he rallied rapidly and was considered to be on the road to a rapid recovery.
His father had been with him at the hospital until Wednesday morning when he returned home as Milo was thought to be out of danger and that he would be released from the hospital within a few days.
Wednesday evening, hospital attendants reported his condition as excellent, but early Thursday morning the message came to his parents that he had died suddenly. No apparent cause but supposedly from a blood clot in the cardiac regions.
Milo Windus was one of the community's choice young men and practically all his short life had been lived in the Protection neighborhood.
He graduated from the Protection High School with the Class of 1927 and with high honors. He was exceedingly popular and well liked. With an extraordinary musical talent, Milo was planning to soon enter a higher institution of learning to study for a musical career. Since his graduation from high school, he had been assisting his father on the home farm.
Interment will be in the Protection cemetery, Sunday, September 9. Services at the home at 2:00 p.m. and at the Methodist Church in Protection at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Walter H. Dellinger, pastor of the Methodist Church, will officiate.
Peacock Mortuary in charge.
The Protection Post, September 13, 1928. The funeral cortege with the body of Milo Windus arrived Saturday on the west bound Santa Fe from Wichita.
THE MILO WINDUS FUNERAL
The body lay in state at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Windus, southwest of town until Sunday, September 9, at which time the funeral obsequies were held.
Friends and relatives gathered at the home where a short service was held by pastor, the Rev. Walter H. Dellinger of the Methodist Church of Protection. Following the services at the home, the body was taken to the M. E. Church at Protection where a public service was conducted over the bier by Rev. Dellinger.
The church was crowded with friends and acquaintances and neighbors who had met to attend the last sad rites over the remains of this splendid young man.
Interment was in the local cemetery.
The pall bearers were school mates and friends of the deceased: Lewis Hopkins, Warren Giles, Jesse Atkeson, Raymond Watts, Vernon Klasser and Cecil Bean.
The Peacock Mortuary was in charge.
OBITUARY Milo William Windus, youngest child and son of John F. and Bettie Windus was born at Ellinwood, Kansas, April 14, 1909. In October of the same year his parents moved to Protection, Kansas, making their new home on a farm southwest of town. Here he grew to young manhood. He took all of his grade school work at the Lower Bluff Creek District school graduating from this school as the honor student of Comanche county.
He enrolled in the Protection High School in the fall of 1923 and graduated with his class in the spring of 1927. He was a member of the Boy's Glee Club of 1925-26-27; and of the male quartet of 1926 and 1927. He held an important part in nearly all the plays and musical events of the school.
Those of us who knew him best knew him to be a boy of high ambition. He had been planning all summer to enter some college, and in his own mind had planned to major in Fine Arts. He held a strong desire to develop his musical talent.
For the past six months he had not been in very good health and decided that an operation would be the best and better prepare him to carry forth his school plans. He went to the Wesley Hospital and it seemed for several days that his efforts were a success, but suddenly his plans for future life were changed to that of the other world. God sent his messages for him and took him on at an early morning hour, September 6, 1928, at the age of 19 years, 4 months and 22 days.
Besides his parents, he leaves to mourn his loss, one brother, Arthur, and two sisters, Alice and Mrs., Florence Snyder, of Selman, Okla.
He, with his father and mother was taken into the Methodist Church, February 22, 1925.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church at 2:30 p.m., Rev. W. H. Dellinger, pastor officiating. Interment in the Protection cemetery.
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