Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette
Tuesday 09 Apr 1918
WELL KNOWN WOMAN, MRS. ALICE MEAD, IS DEAD AT HOME HERE
Had Just Completed Term As President of Local P. E. O. Society in Which She Was Active.
FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY
Following an illness which became alarming only a short time before her death, Mrs. Alice Mead died at the family home in the Mead apartments, Third avenue and Fourteenth street, at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Death was due to heart disease which had partially confined her to her room for about two weeks. Her condition became more serious early Monday and she sank rapidly until the end came.
Mrs. Mead was the wife of John J. Mead, superintendent of distribution for the Cedar Rapids Gas company, and has been prominent in local social circles for a number of years. She was especially active in the local P. E. O. society, and had just completed a term as president of the society, a position to which she was elected two years ago. She held, successfully, the positions of guard, treasurer, vice president and president in the society, and was the installing officer when the new officers were installed at a meeting held two weeks before her death. She had attended every meeting of the society during her term of office as president, and was absent from one meeting only since she became a member.
She was also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and had been active in the work of the local chapter.
Born in Pennsylvania.
Before her marriage to Mr. Mead in 1885, Mrs. Mead was Lorina Alice Wilson, and was born in Collensburg, Pennsylvania. She came west with her parents when she was five years of age, and lived in Manchester until her marriage. Since 1885 she had lived almost continuously in Cedar Rapids. She became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Manchester during her girlhood, and afterward transferred her membership to St. Paul’s church in this city. Since the erection of the new Mead apartment building three years ago, the family home had been there.
The surviving relatives are the husband, one daughter, Miss Mildred; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, of Manchester; three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Rabenau of Tinta, Minn.; Mrs. T. A. Coon of Oelwein, and Mrs. A. E. Nugent of Cedar Rapids, and one brother, Sherman Wilson. She was an aunt of Clyde Pelley, who lost his life when the Tuscania was sunk.
Burial in Manchester.
The funeral service will be held in St. Paul’s church at 4 p. rn., today and will be conducted by the Rev. A. M. Jayne, assisted by Dr. E. J. Lockwood. Burial will be made Wednesday morning in the cemetery in Manchester.
Tuesday 09 Apr 1918
WELL KNOWN WOMAN, MRS. ALICE MEAD, IS DEAD AT HOME HERE
Had Just Completed Term As President of Local P. E. O. Society in Which She Was Active.
FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY
Following an illness which became alarming only a short time before her death, Mrs. Alice Mead died at the family home in the Mead apartments, Third avenue and Fourteenth street, at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Death was due to heart disease which had partially confined her to her room for about two weeks. Her condition became more serious early Monday and she sank rapidly until the end came.
Mrs. Mead was the wife of John J. Mead, superintendent of distribution for the Cedar Rapids Gas company, and has been prominent in local social circles for a number of years. She was especially active in the local P. E. O. society, and had just completed a term as president of the society, a position to which she was elected two years ago. She held, successfully, the positions of guard, treasurer, vice president and president in the society, and was the installing officer when the new officers were installed at a meeting held two weeks before her death. She had attended every meeting of the society during her term of office as president, and was absent from one meeting only since she became a member.
She was also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and had been active in the work of the local chapter.
Born in Pennsylvania.
Before her marriage to Mr. Mead in 1885, Mrs. Mead was Lorina Alice Wilson, and was born in Collensburg, Pennsylvania. She came west with her parents when she was five years of age, and lived in Manchester until her marriage. Since 1885 she had lived almost continuously in Cedar Rapids. She became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Manchester during her girlhood, and afterward transferred her membership to St. Paul’s church in this city. Since the erection of the new Mead apartment building three years ago, the family home had been there.
The surviving relatives are the husband, one daughter, Miss Mildred; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, of Manchester; three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Rabenau of Tinta, Minn.; Mrs. T. A. Coon of Oelwein, and Mrs. A. E. Nugent of Cedar Rapids, and one brother, Sherman Wilson. She was an aunt of Clyde Pelley, who lost his life when the Tuscania was sunk.
Burial in Manchester.
The funeral service will be held in St. Paul’s church at 4 p. rn., today and will be conducted by the Rev. A. M. Jayne, assisted by Dr. E. J. Lockwood. Burial will be made Wednesday morning in the cemetery in Manchester.
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette
Tuesday 09 Apr 1918
WELL KNOWN WOMAN, MRS. ALICE MEAD, IS DEAD AT HOME HERE
Had Just Completed Term As President of Local P. E. O. Society in Which She Was Active.
FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY
Following an illness which became alarming only a short time before her death, Mrs. Alice Mead died at the family home in the Mead apartments, Third avenue and Fourteenth street, at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Death was due to heart disease which had partially confined her to her room for about two weeks. Her condition became more serious early Monday and she sank rapidly until the end came.
Mrs. Mead was the wife of John J. Mead, superintendent of distribution for the Cedar Rapids Gas company, and has been prominent in local social circles for a number of years. She was especially active in the local P. E. O. society, and had just completed a term as president of the society, a position to which she was elected two years ago. She held, successfully, the positions of guard, treasurer, vice president and president in the society, and was the installing officer when the new officers were installed at a meeting held two weeks before her death. She had attended every meeting of the society during her term of office as president, and was absent from one meeting only since she became a member.
She was also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and had been active in the work of the local chapter.
Born in Pennsylvania.
Before her marriage to Mr. Mead in 1885, Mrs. Mead was Lorina Alice Wilson, and was born in Collensburg, Pennsylvania. She came west with her parents when she was five years of age, and lived in Manchester until her marriage. Since 1885 she had lived almost continuously in Cedar Rapids. She became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Manchester during her girlhood, and afterward transferred her membership to St. Paul’s church in this city. Since the erection of the new Mead apartment building three years ago, the family home had been there.
The surviving relatives are the husband, one daughter, Miss Mildred; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, of Manchester; three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Rabenau of Tinta, Minn.; Mrs. T. A. Coon of Oelwein, and Mrs. A. E. Nugent of Cedar Rapids, and one brother, Sherman Wilson. She was an aunt of Clyde Pelley, who lost his life when the Tuscania was sunk.
Burial in Manchester.
The funeral service will be held in St. Paul’s church at 4 p. rn., today and will be conducted by the Rev. A. M. Jayne, assisted by Dr. E. J. Lockwood. Burial will be made Wednesday morning in the cemetery in Manchester.
Tuesday 09 Apr 1918
WELL KNOWN WOMAN, MRS. ALICE MEAD, IS DEAD AT HOME HERE
Had Just Completed Term As President of Local P. E. O. Society in Which She Was Active.
FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY
Following an illness which became alarming only a short time before her death, Mrs. Alice Mead died at the family home in the Mead apartments, Third avenue and Fourteenth street, at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Death was due to heart disease which had partially confined her to her room for about two weeks. Her condition became more serious early Monday and she sank rapidly until the end came.
Mrs. Mead was the wife of John J. Mead, superintendent of distribution for the Cedar Rapids Gas company, and has been prominent in local social circles for a number of years. She was especially active in the local P. E. O. society, and had just completed a term as president of the society, a position to which she was elected two years ago. She held, successfully, the positions of guard, treasurer, vice president and president in the society, and was the installing officer when the new officers were installed at a meeting held two weeks before her death. She had attended every meeting of the society during her term of office as president, and was absent from one meeting only since she became a member.
She was also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and had been active in the work of the local chapter.
Born in Pennsylvania.
Before her marriage to Mr. Mead in 1885, Mrs. Mead was Lorina Alice Wilson, and was born in Collensburg, Pennsylvania. She came west with her parents when she was five years of age, and lived in Manchester until her marriage. Since 1885 she had lived almost continuously in Cedar Rapids. She became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Manchester during her girlhood, and afterward transferred her membership to St. Paul’s church in this city. Since the erection of the new Mead apartment building three years ago, the family home had been there.
The surviving relatives are the husband, one daughter, Miss Mildred; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, of Manchester; three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Rabenau of Tinta, Minn.; Mrs. T. A. Coon of Oelwein, and Mrs. A. E. Nugent of Cedar Rapids, and one brother, Sherman Wilson. She was an aunt of Clyde Pelley, who lost his life when the Tuscania was sunk.
Burial in Manchester.
The funeral service will be held in St. Paul’s church at 4 p. rn., today and will be conducted by the Rev. A. M. Jayne, assisted by Dr. E. J. Lockwood. Burial will be made Wednesday morning in the cemetery in Manchester.
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