1.) Kathleen Jackson Dies in Decatur County Hospital
Kathleen Jackson, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jackson, died at the Decatur County Hospital at Leon Monday morning, July 16.
The child in company with her mother, two brothers, and grandfather were en-route from Kansas City, Kan., to their new home at St. Paul, where the father had already gone. They stopped off at the Hammer cabins for the night of July 3.
The father of Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Riley, remembered that he formerly had a cousin, C. F. Church, living in Lamoni, whom he had visited 56 years ago. He visited Mr. Church in the evening, expecting to be on their journey early the next morning.
About 4 o'clock in the morning, little Kathleen became ill and a doctor was summoned. She was taken to the Church home, but grew rapidly worse, and it was thought best to put her in a hospital where she might have the best of care. Streptococcic meningitis developed from a mastoid condition. Everything possible was done for the child but from the first the case seemed hopeless.
Services were held at the White Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, L. G. Holloway preaching the sermon, assisted by G. A. Platz. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have the sympathy of the community to have lost a loved one under such trying circumstances.
SOURCE: The Lamoni Chronicle, published in Lamoni, Iowa on Thursday, July 19th, 1934, p. 1
2.) Kathleen was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1927. She was the unexpected gift of her parents' marriage ten months earlier.
Her father, skilled in the fledgling field of airplane mechanics, appeared to move the family around for work. The family settled securely in Denver as the country slipped into the Great Depression. Two sons soon arrived, one of them ultimately becoming a pilot.
In 1934, whether the family was leaving their home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to find employment elsewhere or whether they were traveling to visit kith and kin, they found themselves at the hospital in Leon, Iowa. Little Kathleen was turning 7. Instead of celebrating, she contracted purulent meningitis. For nearly 2 weeks, she became increasingly ill. She died 4 days after her birthday.
The unexpected loss of their only daughter and having to abandon her in a burial far from home must have been an incurable ache for the young parents, a lifetime of haunting grief.
This site has allowed her to return to them.
MOTHER: Myra Zelda Riley
FATHER: Carle Byron Jackson
Kathleen Jackson, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jackson, died at the Decatur County Hospital at Leon Monday morning, July 16.
The child in company with her mother, two brothers, and grandfather were en-route from Kansas City, Kan., to their new home at St. Paul, where the father had already gone. They stopped off at the Hammer cabins for the night of July 3.
The father of Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Riley, remembered that he formerly had a cousin, C. F. Church, living in Lamoni, whom he had visited 56 years ago. He visited Mr. Church in the evening, expecting to be on their journey early the next morning.
About 4 o'clock in the morning, little Kathleen became ill and a doctor was summoned. She was taken to the Church home, but grew rapidly worse, and it was thought best to put her in a hospital where she might have the best of care. Streptococcic meningitis developed from a mastoid condition. Everything possible was done for the child but from the first the case seemed hopeless.
Services were held at the White Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, L. G. Holloway preaching the sermon, assisted by G. A. Platz. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have the sympathy of the community to have lost a loved one under such trying circumstances.
SOURCE: The Lamoni Chronicle, published in Lamoni, Iowa on Thursday, July 19th, 1934, p. 1
2.) Kathleen was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1927. She was the unexpected gift of her parents' marriage ten months earlier.
Her father, skilled in the fledgling field of airplane mechanics, appeared to move the family around for work. The family settled securely in Denver as the country slipped into the Great Depression. Two sons soon arrived, one of them ultimately becoming a pilot.
In 1934, whether the family was leaving their home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to find employment elsewhere or whether they were traveling to visit kith and kin, they found themselves at the hospital in Leon, Iowa. Little Kathleen was turning 7. Instead of celebrating, she contracted purulent meningitis. For nearly 2 weeks, she became increasingly ill. She died 4 days after her birthday.
The unexpected loss of their only daughter and having to abandon her in a burial far from home must have been an incurable ache for the young parents, a lifetime of haunting grief.
This site has allowed her to return to them.
MOTHER: Myra Zelda Riley
FATHER: Carle Byron Jackson
1.) Kathleen Jackson Dies in Decatur County Hospital
Kathleen Jackson, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jackson, died at the Decatur County Hospital at Leon Monday morning, July 16.
The child in company with her mother, two brothers, and grandfather were en-route from Kansas City, Kan., to their new home at St. Paul, where the father had already gone. They stopped off at the Hammer cabins for the night of July 3.
The father of Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Riley, remembered that he formerly had a cousin, C. F. Church, living in Lamoni, whom he had visited 56 years ago. He visited Mr. Church in the evening, expecting to be on their journey early the next morning.
About 4 o'clock in the morning, little Kathleen became ill and a doctor was summoned. She was taken to the Church home, but grew rapidly worse, and it was thought best to put her in a hospital where she might have the best of care. Streptococcic meningitis developed from a mastoid condition. Everything possible was done for the child but from the first the case seemed hopeless.
Services were held at the White Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, L. G. Holloway preaching the sermon, assisted by G. A. Platz. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have the sympathy of the community to have lost a loved one under such trying circumstances.
SOURCE: The Lamoni Chronicle, published in Lamoni, Iowa on Thursday, July 19th, 1934, p. 1
2.) Kathleen was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1927. She was the unexpected gift of her parents' marriage ten months earlier.
Her father, skilled in the fledgling field of airplane mechanics, appeared to move the family around for work. The family settled securely in Denver as the country slipped into the Great Depression. Two sons soon arrived, one of them ultimately becoming a pilot.
In 1934, whether the family was leaving their home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to find employment elsewhere or whether they were traveling to visit kith and kin, they found themselves at the hospital in Leon, Iowa. Little Kathleen was turning 7. Instead of celebrating, she contracted purulent meningitis. For nearly 2 weeks, she became increasingly ill. She died 4 days after her birthday.
The unexpected loss of their only daughter and having to abandon her in a burial far from home must have been an incurable ache for the young parents, a lifetime of haunting grief.
This site has allowed her to return to them.
MOTHER: Myra Zelda Riley
FATHER: Carle Byron Jackson
Kathleen Jackson, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jackson, died at the Decatur County Hospital at Leon Monday morning, July 16.
The child in company with her mother, two brothers, and grandfather were en-route from Kansas City, Kan., to their new home at St. Paul, where the father had already gone. They stopped off at the Hammer cabins for the night of July 3.
The father of Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Riley, remembered that he formerly had a cousin, C. F. Church, living in Lamoni, whom he had visited 56 years ago. He visited Mr. Church in the evening, expecting to be on their journey early the next morning.
About 4 o'clock in the morning, little Kathleen became ill and a doctor was summoned. She was taken to the Church home, but grew rapidly worse, and it was thought best to put her in a hospital where she might have the best of care. Streptococcic meningitis developed from a mastoid condition. Everything possible was done for the child but from the first the case seemed hopeless.
Services were held at the White Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, L. G. Holloway preaching the sermon, assisted by G. A. Platz. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have the sympathy of the community to have lost a loved one under such trying circumstances.
SOURCE: The Lamoni Chronicle, published in Lamoni, Iowa on Thursday, July 19th, 1934, p. 1
2.) Kathleen was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1927. She was the unexpected gift of her parents' marriage ten months earlier.
Her father, skilled in the fledgling field of airplane mechanics, appeared to move the family around for work. The family settled securely in Denver as the country slipped into the Great Depression. Two sons soon arrived, one of them ultimately becoming a pilot.
In 1934, whether the family was leaving their home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to find employment elsewhere or whether they were traveling to visit kith and kin, they found themselves at the hospital in Leon, Iowa. Little Kathleen was turning 7. Instead of celebrating, she contracted purulent meningitis. For nearly 2 weeks, she became increasingly ill. She died 4 days after her birthday.
The unexpected loss of their only daughter and having to abandon her in a burial far from home must have been an incurable ache for the young parents, a lifetime of haunting grief.
This site has allowed her to return to them.
MOTHER: Myra Zelda Riley
FATHER: Carle Byron Jackson
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