Spokane Daily Chronicle - Oct 18, 1919
MISS HARIET VOORHES [sic]
CALLED BY GRIM REAPER
Death Summons Prominent Spokane Woman - Was Ill for Several Months.
Miss Harriet G. Voorhees died at the Sacred Heart hospital Friday evening, following an illness extending over several months. Recently her condition showed marked improvement and an early return to health had been anticipated by friends until Thursday evening, when she suffered a relapse form which she did not recover.
Funeral services will be held from St. Augustine's church, Stevens and Eighteenth, Monday morning at 9 o'clock, with the Rev. Father Fitzgerald officiating. The remains will be taken to Terre Haute, Ind., the old home of the Voorhees family, for burial.
Miss Voorhees was born in Covington, Indiana, and was the only daughter of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, and Anne Hardesty Voorhees. She was educated in the academy of St. Mary's of the Woods in her native state and subsequently passed several educational years in Paris, where she studied music with Marchesi. After the death of her mother and during the 12 years of her father's service in the United States senate and until his death, she presided over his home in Washington, D. C.
Here Long Time
For the last 17 or 18 years she has made her home in this city where she has many friends. Her love of country was a high order and during the war she was active to the full of her strength in Red Cross work. She was known as a woman of many fine qualities - courage, generosity and charity being marked in her, and a naturally bright mind and marked conversational gifts with a kindly, cheerful disposition made many friends who will miss and mourn for her.
She was a sister of the late Charles S. Voorhees, who represented this state in Congress when it was a territory and is survived by two brothers, James I. Voorhees, of Indiana and Reese H. Voorhees, for many years a resident of this city.
Obit by Barbie Gant (FAG #48532709)
MISS HARIET VOORHES [sic]
CALLED BY GRIM REAPER
Death Summons Prominent Spokane Woman - Was Ill for Several Months.
Miss Harriet G. Voorhees died at the Sacred Heart hospital Friday evening, following an illness extending over several months. Recently her condition showed marked improvement and an early return to health had been anticipated by friends until Thursday evening, when she suffered a relapse form which she did not recover.
Funeral services will be held from St. Augustine's church, Stevens and Eighteenth, Monday morning at 9 o'clock, with the Rev. Father Fitzgerald officiating. The remains will be taken to Terre Haute, Ind., the old home of the Voorhees family, for burial.
Miss Voorhees was born in Covington, Indiana, and was the only daughter of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, and Anne Hardesty Voorhees. She was educated in the academy of St. Mary's of the Woods in her native state and subsequently passed several educational years in Paris, where she studied music with Marchesi. After the death of her mother and during the 12 years of her father's service in the United States senate and until his death, she presided over his home in Washington, D. C.
Here Long Time
For the last 17 or 18 years she has made her home in this city where she has many friends. Her love of country was a high order and during the war she was active to the full of her strength in Red Cross work. She was known as a woman of many fine qualities - courage, generosity and charity being marked in her, and a naturally bright mind and marked conversational gifts with a kindly, cheerful disposition made many friends who will miss and mourn for her.
She was a sister of the late Charles S. Voorhees, who represented this state in Congress when it was a territory and is survived by two brothers, James I. Voorhees, of Indiana and Reese H. Voorhees, for many years a resident of this city.
Obit by Barbie Gant (FAG #48532709)
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Oct 18, 1919
MISS HARIET VOORHES [sic]
CALLED BY GRIM REAPER
Death Summons Prominent Spokane Woman - Was Ill for Several Months.
Miss Harriet G. Voorhees died at the Sacred Heart hospital Friday evening, following an illness extending over several months. Recently her condition showed marked improvement and an early return to health had been anticipated by friends until Thursday evening, when she suffered a relapse form which she did not recover.
Funeral services will be held from St. Augustine's church, Stevens and Eighteenth, Monday morning at 9 o'clock, with the Rev. Father Fitzgerald officiating. The remains will be taken to Terre Haute, Ind., the old home of the Voorhees family, for burial.
Miss Voorhees was born in Covington, Indiana, and was the only daughter of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, and Anne Hardesty Voorhees. She was educated in the academy of St. Mary's of the Woods in her native state and subsequently passed several educational years in Paris, where she studied music with Marchesi. After the death of her mother and during the 12 years of her father's service in the United States senate and until his death, she presided over his home in Washington, D. C.
Here Long Time
For the last 17 or 18 years she has made her home in this city where she has many friends. Her love of country was a high order and during the war she was active to the full of her strength in Red Cross work. She was known as a woman of many fine qualities - courage, generosity and charity being marked in her, and a naturally bright mind and marked conversational gifts with a kindly, cheerful disposition made many friends who will miss and mourn for her.
She was a sister of the late Charles S. Voorhees, who represented this state in Congress when it was a territory and is survived by two brothers, James I. Voorhees, of Indiana and Reese H. Voorhees, for many years a resident of this city.
Obit by Barbie Gant (FAG #48532709)
MISS HARIET VOORHES [sic]
CALLED BY GRIM REAPER
Death Summons Prominent Spokane Woman - Was Ill for Several Months.
Miss Harriet G. Voorhees died at the Sacred Heart hospital Friday evening, following an illness extending over several months. Recently her condition showed marked improvement and an early return to health had been anticipated by friends until Thursday evening, when she suffered a relapse form which she did not recover.
Funeral services will be held from St. Augustine's church, Stevens and Eighteenth, Monday morning at 9 o'clock, with the Rev. Father Fitzgerald officiating. The remains will be taken to Terre Haute, Ind., the old home of the Voorhees family, for burial.
Miss Voorhees was born in Covington, Indiana, and was the only daughter of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, and Anne Hardesty Voorhees. She was educated in the academy of St. Mary's of the Woods in her native state and subsequently passed several educational years in Paris, where she studied music with Marchesi. After the death of her mother and during the 12 years of her father's service in the United States senate and until his death, she presided over his home in Washington, D. C.
Here Long Time
For the last 17 or 18 years she has made her home in this city where she has many friends. Her love of country was a high order and during the war she was active to the full of her strength in Red Cross work. She was known as a woman of many fine qualities - courage, generosity and charity being marked in her, and a naturally bright mind and marked conversational gifts with a kindly, cheerful disposition made many friends who will miss and mourn for her.
She was a sister of the late Charles S. Voorhees, who represented this state in Congress when it was a territory and is survived by two brothers, James I. Voorhees, of Indiana and Reese H. Voorhees, for many years a resident of this city.
Obit by Barbie Gant (FAG #48532709)
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