OBITUARY: Perna M. Whitney, 1861-c1936, Mitchell County, Iowa




                      Miss Perna M. Whitney

Miss Perna M. Whitney passed away quietly last Sunday morning,
March 8, at about 9:45 o'clock.  For almost two and a half years
she had been a sufferer from paralysis.

She was born October 20, 1861, in Chicago.  When a small child she
came to Osage with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pascal Whitney.  Her
father died in 1883, and her brother, Frederick, later went out
into the teaching field, leaving the mother and daughters, Misses
Perna and Annette, to keep the home on north Seventh street.

Mrs. Whitney passed away in 1920, and the daughters have resided
in the same home since that time.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Stiles Lessly, pastor
of the Congregational church, at the Champion funeral home Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, with interment in the family lot in the
Osage [Iowa] cemetery.

The brother, Dr. Frederick, of Greeley, Colorado, came to be
present at the funeral.  He and the sister, Annette, are the
only surviving close relatives.


   Copyright 2004, Merri Cross

   Notes: This was found in a scrapbook.
   I am not a relative.
   The clipping is undated, but the other clippings on
   the same page were dated 1936.