Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — FORMER RENSSELAER WOMAN DIES IN HAMMOND. [ARTICLE]

FORMER RENSSELAER WOMAN DIES IN HAMMOND.

Bertha Payne, late of Hammond, died at the hospital in that city Wednesday, Sept. 11. She had been in 411 health for some ten weeks. Monday she was taken to the hospital and on Tuesday she underwent an operation for the removal.of a tumor. She died from the effects of the operation on Wednesday. She was the proprietor of the State Hotel, of Hammond. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. J. H. Payne, her brother, Lewis Payne, and her sister, Mrs. I. B. Marion, all of this city. The deceased had lived in Hammond since she was thirteen years of age. She was a member of two fraternal orders of that city. ' The body of -the deceased will arrive here on the 1:57 p. m. train Saturday. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church and will be in charge of Rev. E.. W. Strecker. Interment will be in Weston cemetery.