OBIT: Eula Dowden Leichardt, d. 1930, Jefferson Co., Ky

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 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2001 11:03:31 EDT
Transcribed by:  Pat45324@aol.com
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Subject: obit - Leichhardt - Dec 13 1930

Brief Illness Fatal To Mrs. Leichhardt
Local Banker's Wife Fails To Revive From Several Days' Coma Buried at Resthaven, Monday
       Mrs. Eula Dowden Leichhardt, wife of D. Leichhardt, President of the Jefferson County Bank at 
Jeffersontown, died at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital at noon Saturday.
       Mrs. Leichhardt who was in her 53rd year was stricken suddenly unconscious about noon Wednesday 
and was found laying on the bed by her husband whom she was to accompany to Louisville that afternoon 
when he returned from the garage whither had had just gone to replenish his gas supply for the trip.
       Medical aid from Jeffersontown was quickly summoned and this supplemented by Louisville specialists. 
 When the best efforts of these doctors proved to no avail to break the coma under which Mrs. 
Leichhardt existed, she was taken to the Baptist Hospital Thursday morning where she continued to grow 
weaker till the end came, Saturday.
       The funeral was preached at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the Jeffersontown Baptist church of 
which she was a most loyal and faithful member, by her friend and Pastor, Rev. L. T. Wright, assisted by 
Rev. T.T. Frazier of the methodist church,--the wealth of floral tributes and the numbers of sorrowing 
friends which more than filled the auditorium attesting to the love and esteem in which this good woman 
was held.
       As was in the case of Dorcas of old, it was on every mind and heart in the assemblage to tell the good 
things, the kind acts, the noble self forgetfulness of the deceased while among her fellows and heartfelt 
sympathy was felt by all for the four lonely men left behind. They were her husband and her three sons, 
Langstroth, Halstead and Field Leichhardt, the youngest just about entering young manhood, and the 
other two not many years older and all still living at home with the parents.
       Other survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Ella Gregory of Brandenburg, near which town was Mrs. 
Leichhardt's old home; Mrs. Annie Stith and Mrs. Ione Dunn, both of Louisville; two brothers, Rev. Dowden 
of Brandenburg and Donald Dowden of California.
       The paster of the Baptist church expressed a feeling of personal loss in this passing of one of his most 
faithful members; a successful Sunday School teacher, and an ever ready help for the sick and needy.  
Long wll her loss be felt in her church as well as in her home.  The burial was in Resthaven Cemetery.