Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1912 — Funeral of Mrs. Ross Porter Will Be Held Thursday P. M. [ARTICLE]

Funeral of Mrs. Ross Porter Will Be Held Thursday P. M.

Mrs. Walter V. Porter went to Chicago Tuesday afternoon upon receiving word of the death of her son’s wife, Mrs. Ros* Porter, and returned to Rensselaer on the 11:05 train that night, her son and the body of his wife coming on the same train. The remains were taken to the W. V. Porter home on Division and Susan streets and the funeral will be held there at 4 o’clock Thursday evening, being conducted by Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the First Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. W. G, Winn, of the First Christian church. The body will lie in state from 10 to 12 o’clock Thursday and may be viewed by friends. The casket will not be opened at the funeral. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Porter had been a partial invalid for some months, suffering from a pain in her right side. She had consulted two local physicians, Drs. Kresler and English, both of whom had, according to the Porter family, indicated that an operation might be necessary but that they had not urged immediate action. > Both physicians state that they found some disorders but that they did not regard theih sufficiently menacing to justify an operation. During the time that Miss Myrtia York was at the West Side hospital in Chicago Mrs. Porter called there and was examined by a specialist who advised the operation, telling her that it would not be necessary to have a Rensselaer physician accompany her to the hospital but that the operation could be performed just as well without a local doctor. Mrs. Porter was very anxious to have the operation performed and decided last week *o go to the hospital for that purpose. She went to the hospital Sunday and her husband went there Monday evening. Mrs. Porter was feeling very cheerful and when she went on the operating table >at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning she had no thought of the serious termination of the operation. She talked freely and treated the operation lightly. The anaesthetic was administered and the operation performed, the appendix being removed and during the time the operation was pending she breathed regularly and apparently was passing through it without danger. But • suddenly the breathing stdpped and life was extinct. The cause of death was assigned as an acute attack of heart failure. The surgeon and his aids worked heroically to restore life but without avail. The heart refused to act and life had gone forever. There was no more popular young woman in or near Rensselaer than Mrs. Ross Porter. Of the kindliest disposition, the most gentle and loving ways, the faculty of being always ready to do something for the pleasure of those about her, had made her admired by all who knew her. A queenly housekeeper, a willing and energetic worker, adapted to the manifold duties of the farm home, and also equally accomplished in a social way and as a church worker, Mrs. Porter was one of the real jewels of young wifehood and her untimely death ha* proved very depressing io'the entire community and especially to the younger set with whom she was a general favorite. Miss Sarah Bowman, of the DePeyster School for Girls, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J. B. Bowman, who was here to attend the closing day exercises at the school, left today for Canton, Ohio, where they will visit