Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1915 — MRS. MARY A. HOVE CALLED TO LAST REST [ARTICLE]

MRS. MARY A. HOVE CALLED TO LAST REST

Widow of Samuel H. Howe Passed Away Saturday After Brief Sickness of Typhoid. Mrs. Mary A. Howe died Saturday afternoon at about 2:30 o’clock at her home on West Jackson street. She had been ill only a little over a week, having had typhoid fever, which was complicated with brights disease. Mrs. Howe was the widow of Samuel H. Howe, for many years a resident of this county. She was a woman of great worth and as a nurse and companion had performed much splendid labor since the death of her husband some fifteen years ago. It was while acting as a nurse in the family of Mr. Huntington near Mt. Ayr that she contracted the disease which resulted in her death. She is survived by one daughter, Miss Agnes Howe, a graduate of Rensselaer high school with the class of 1915 and who had just entered upon a course at DePauw university. Arthur Harding, of South Dakota, was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Howe but was never legally adopted and since he became a man had gone by his own name. Mrs. Howe was a daughter of James Pierce and a sister of Mrs. Thomas A. Knox, .both of whom are now deceased. She was a member of the Ladies of the G. A. R. and of the Royal Neighbors and was a worker in patriotic labors of all kinds. The funeral was held this Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.