Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1915 — MISS LUCY HEALY VICTIM OF PHTHISIS [ARTICLE]

MISS LUCY HEALY VICTIM OF PHTHISIS

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Healy Passed Away After Illness of Several Months.

Miss Lucy Margaret Healy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Healy, passed away this Monday morning at the home of her parents on Front street, after a lingering illness of tuberculosis. She had failed rapidly for the past month ahd several days last week seemed very near death’s door. Lucy was bom in Rensselaer and had grown to young womanhood here, where her sweet disposition had won her many admirers. Always frail of health her slender figure was siezed almost a year ago by tuberculosis. A | little later Bhe was taken to a hospital at Lafayette, where she spent several weeks, but this was to no avail and the physicians who examined her held out no hope for recovery. She returned home and for the following months was resigned to the fate that was to pass her soul into the keeping of her Master. A month ago she became worse and each day h!ad taken her nearer to the end. She was a pupil of the public schools for some time, but at the end of her sophomore year left the school and that fall en- I tered St. Elizabeth’s Institute st St; j Louis, Mo., which she attended for one year. She is survived by her parents and by three brothers and one sister, I namely, Lon, Paul, Johnie and Marie, also by a number of other relatives I and many friends, who mourn with I the relatives that her life was brought to a close so soon. Friends may view the remains at I the home Tuesday afternoon from 2 I to 5 o'clock. I The funeral will be 'held Wednesday I momirig at 9 o’clock at St. Augus- J tine’s Catholic church, and burial will I be made in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Calkins & Worland haye the funeral. |