Miss Velma Claudine Euliss, the daughter of Ernest and Willie Euliss, was born May 4, 1924, at Phenix, MO. After her short life, she passed to her tender embrace of Jesus Dec. 24, 1939, at the age of 15 years, 7 months and 20 days, death occuring at the home of Mr. Mrs. Euliss near Wishart, MO. She spent the last seven years of her life in sickness and pain. Her mother proceeded her in death eleven years ago. Claudine leaves in her home her grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Euliss; one sister, Beatrice Euliss; her great grandmother, Mrs. Tinnie Hensley; her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Euliss; and stepbrother of Bolivar MO., and a number of uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends. May God bless every one of them. The funeral was preached Christamas Day at Enon at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by Rev. Clarence Dorman, the pastor. Interment was in the Enon cemetery under direction of Hutcheson-Blue.