Douglas County WA Archives Obituaries.....Mayfield, Jenny Kirkeby  March 8, 1934
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Waterville Empire Press
MANSFIELD

Funeral services were held in the Methodist church at 11 o'clock Sunday for 
Mrs. T. N. Mayfield, Rev. P. E. Pike officiating.  It was the largest funeral 
ever held in Mansfield.  

The deceased had lived in Douglas county more than 30 years.  She was loved by 
everyone who knew her as she was always ready to help anyone in sickness or 
bereavement regardless of their religious faith.  The good she has done 
everyone who knew her as she was a loyal member of the Methodist church, having 
united with that faith when a girl, and was also a member of the Rebekah lodge, 
in which she was an ardent worked (sic).

The pallbearers were: P. C. Thomsen, Tom Petersen, H. E. Smith, John Harper, 
Hugh Price and F. C. Wittig.  

Sorrowing friends and relatives came from Wenatchee, East Wenatchee, 
Waterville, Coulee, Winthrop, Carlton and Bridgeport, to pay their last 
respects to the departed.  The sympathy of the entire community is extended to 
the bereaved.

Jennie Kirkeby was born Sept 1 1871 in Denmark.  In 1882 the family migrated to 
the United States, settling in Indiana.  In 1903 she came to Washington, where 
she took a homestead in Douglas county about three miles north of where the 
Fairview school now stands. 

She was united in marriage to T. N. Mayfield, Aug. 9, 1908.  The couple moved 
into Mansfield in the summer of 1909 when the town was founded, and have lived 
here ever since.  She leaves to mourn her, her husband, T. N. Mayfield, two 
brothers, J. J. Kirkby of East Wenatchee, A. C. Kirkby of Hobart, Indiana, four 
sisters, Mrs. Metta Anderson of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Anna Johnson of Laremore, 
North Dakota, Mrs. Christna Nelson, Union Mills, Indiana and Mrs. Marie 
Ellinger, Bloomington, Illinois.

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