Will-Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Kaffer, Kathryn December 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com November 10, 2006, 9:05 pm Herald, Dec 21, 1918 Kathryn Kaffer Dies Victim of Pneumonia Unknown Newspaper, December 21, 1918 Miss Kathryn Kaffer, 18 years old, who has been seriously ill during the last week, died Thursday evening at 10 o'clock in the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kaffer, 912 Western avenue. Her death occurred as the result of a cold which she contracted Saturday and which developed into pneumonia. Besides her parents, she is survived by three sisters, Anna, Mary Louise and Margaret, and two brothers, John and Robert Kaffer, of Joliet. Miss Kaffer was born May 9, 1900 in Minooka. She was educated in the Minooka public schools and attended the Minooka high school for two years. She moved to Joliet with her parents in 1915 and finished her high school education at the Joliet township high school, from which she was graduated with the class of 1917. For the last three months, she attended St. Joseph's college, Dubuque, Ia., and was called home in November by the serious illness of her sister, Miss Margaret Kaffer, who recently underwent an operation. Kathryn Kaffer was well known among the younger set of Joliet and took part in several of the amateur theatricals staged in Joliet. She was a member of the cast of Katcha Koo. Funeral service for Miss Kaffer will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock from the home to St. Raymond's church at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in Mount Olivet cemetery. First Funeral From New Catholic Church Unknown Newspaper, December 22, 1918 The funeral of Kathryn Kaffer, which was held from the home, 913 Western avenue, Saturday morning, at 9:30 o'clock to the church at 10 o'clock, was the first funeral to be held in St. Raymond's new Catholic church. Solemn mass was sung by the pastor. The Rev. F. E. Scanlan acted as celebrant, the Rev. Phillip Kennedy, pastor of St. Patrick's church, as deacon, and the Rev. J. P. Morrison, assistant pastor of St. Patrick's church, sub-deacon. The Rev. Joseph McMahon, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, Minooka, was present in the sanctuary, as master of ceremonies. St. Raymond's choir sang, and solos were rendered by Miss May Ingoldsby, who sang "Thy Will Be Done," and by Martin Gleason, who sang, "Flee As a Bird." A delegation of International Harvester officials from Aurora attended the funeral in a body. Relatives and friends from Chicago and Minooka were also present. Pall bearers, all of whom were cousins, were: John and Dean Comerford, John Coonan, Leo and Earl Kaffer, and James Tyrell of Chicago. Burial was in Joliet Catholic cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/obits/k/kaffer467nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb