Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — VENERABLE WOMAN DIED TUESDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

VENERABLE WOMAN DIED TUESDAY NIGHT

Mrs. Virginia Halstead Passed Away After Long Illness—Funeral Will Be Held Thursday. Mrs. Virginia Halstead, widow of Michael B. Halstead and the venerable mother of the Halstead boys of Newton township, died at 10 minutes after 9 o’clock Tuesday night following a long illness from cancer of the breast. Her age was 80 years in February and she had long been a resident of Jasper county. Her husband died about 13 years ago. The surviving sons are Orph C., David L., Everet and Chester, of Newton township; Sanford S., of Worland, Wyo., and M. Rankin, of McLeod, Miss. There are also two surviving brothers, Henry O. and Benjamin Harris, of Rensselaer, both older than Mrs. Halstead. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Ohurch of God in Rensselaer. Elder S. J. Lindsay, of Oregon, 111., will conduct it and burial will be made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Halstead was the mother of William Halstead, who was killed in a runaway last week. The news of his death was kept from her as it was feared if the news was told her the shock of his death would hasten her death.