Obituary of Mrs Mary E Rickart, Greene County, Illinois

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      Mrs. Mary E. Rickart, widow of the late Joseph Rickart, of Kansas
      City, Mo., died very suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R.S.
      Worcester, on W. Bridgeport street at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 21st.,
      aged 73 years, 5 months and 14 days. Although she had been in poor
      health for the past several months, her death was quite a shock to
      her many friends and relatives. Tuesday afternoon while sitting in a
      chair conversing with her daughter, Mrs. H.W. Roodhouse, suddenly
      she began breathing heavily. The physician was immediately summoned
      but before he arrived life was extinct. Rev. W.M. Haily of the M. E.
      church, assisted by the Duncan sisters, conducted funeral services
      at the R.S. Worcester residence at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
      July 23rd. Interment was made in the White Hall cemetery. Mrs.
      Rickart was one of a family of six children of Charles and Nancy
      Baston. She was born at Amsbury, Mass. and at the age of about nine
      years came with her parents to White Hall, where she grew to
      womanhood. April 25, 1853, she and Joseph Rickart were married, and
      White Hall continued to be their residence until 1885, when they
      removed to Emporia, Kan., where they resided for a short while,
      later locating in Kansas City, Mo. which was their home until Mr.
      Rickart's death, July 17, 1904. Since his death she made her home
      with her children. Those surviving are Ella, wife of H.W. Roodhouse,
      and Minnie, wife of R.S. Worcester, both of White Hall; Curtis
      Rickart of Hooker, Kansas.; Joseph and Roy Rickart of Kansas City,
      Mo. All were present at the funeral except Curtis. Other relatives
      from a distance were her sister, Mrs. W.B. Grimes, of Chicago; and
      Mrs. E.W. Ridgeway, a granddaughter. Her other surviving sister is
      Mrs. Ira Smith of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Rickart was patient,
      loving and self-sacrificing to the extreme, a lady of noble virtues,
      who will not only be sadly missed by the immediate relatives, but by
      scores of friends, both old and young, who admired her for her
      excellent traits of character.



White Hall, Illinois Newspaper
July 24, 1908
Page 1   Col. 1

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