Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1916 — MRS. KATIE LEE] DIED IN OKLAHOMA [ARTICLE]

MRS. KATIE LEE] DIED IN OKLAHOMA

Went There a Few Weeks Ago to Spend Winter With Children— Death a Shock to Friends. Mrs. Katie Lee, mother of Walter R. Lee, of Mt. Ayr, and Miss LaVera Lee, a teacher in the Wheatfiehl schools, died last Saturday at the • home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Yocum, at Checotah, Oklahoma. Mrs. Lee’s home was in Rensselaer and herself and daughter, Miss LaVera, had part of the house in which Mr. and Mrs. Henry Purcupile reside, on Cullen and Rutsen streets. About a month ago she went to Checotah, Okla., near which place she has three married children, Charles Lee, Mrs. W. E. Yocum and Mrs. Jennie Maxwell. The latter has been poorly and is now a patient in a hospital. The body is being shipped to Rensselaer and the funeral will take place here. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Presbyterian cliureh. It Has-Apt yel been decided whether burial will oe made in Weston cemetery in this city or in the Osborne cemetery in Hanging Grove township. Mrs. Lee had been slightly ill and threatened with pneumonia, but last week had written that she was considerably improved and expected to return home soon. Her daughter, Miss LaVera, came clown from Wheatfield .Saturday to get the home ready for her return. She received a telegram stating that her mother’s condition was very bad and she was making preparations to go at once to Checotah. Then came another message telling her that death had resulted. • Two sisters, Mrs. C. A. Roush and son, of Pe<?ria, 111., and Mrs. Harry Porter, of Pekin, 111., came today, and a brother, R. F. Shepherd of Peoria, will come this evening and remain until after the funeral.