Charles Mix County, SD Obituaries.....Katherine Truman February 4 1946 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Doris Benner fillmoreb@aol.com January 15, 2004, 7:38 pm unknown Katherine Truman, daughter of Samuel J. and Louise Truman, was born near Wheeler, S.D. Marcy 12, 1891, and died Feb. 4, 1946, at the age of 54 years, 10 months and 22 days. After her mother's death when Katherine was two years old, she was cared for as a daughter by Mr. and Mrs. Solmon Clough. When she was 17, death again left her motherless and she returned to Wheeler where she made her home with her father, brother, and sister. Her whole life was spent in the vicinity of Wheeler. On New Year's Day, she was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital, at Lynch, Ne. for care. Death came to her Feb. 4, 1946, as an answer to her prayers for release from pain and she has gone to join her savior. Katherine was a dear and loving daughter, and friend, whose life was devoted to the comfort of others. Even in her last weeks of illness, when suffering so intelsely she was thoughtful and considerate of those who visited or cared for her. She was preceeded in death by her mother, father, three sisters, and one brother. She leaves to mourn her passing: two brothers, John of Bristow, and Albert of Geddes. S.D., a sister, Martha of Geddes, two nephews and three neices, Lloyd, Delwyn,Joan, Kathryn and Ruth Truman of Bristow. besides her friends, who are numbered by those who knew her. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church in Bristow, Feb. 7, 1946, Rev. Fred Varcoe of Spencer and Rev th. Bultsma of Platte officiating. Pall bearers were Geo. Chauncey, Wm. Batstone, Lawrence and Clarence Durham, John Pavlis, and Clifford Creasey, Interment was made in the Bristow cemetery. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/sdfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb