Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1919 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Mr, and Mrs. Herman Messman and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messman attended the funeral of the former’s daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Kelly, at Glenwood, HL, last week. Mrs. Kelly was well and favorably known in Renssealer, having been a frequent visitor here iwith her parents. Emma Messman was born near Kentland December 23, 1888. She Was married to Lawrence Kelly 'June 8, 1910. To this happy union was born four children, Margaret, 8; Marcella, 7; Kathryn, 4; and Emma Jean, a babe of but three months, who with the bereaved father survive to mourn their loss. The deceased also leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Messman, four sisters and two brothers, namely Nora, Mary, Pauline, Leona, Joseph and Harvey, all of Rensselaer, and a host of relatives and friends. Mrs. Kelly was a patient qufferer Xor several months from leakage of the heart She died December 8 and was laid to rest in Mt. Olive cemetery, Chicago, December 11. The funeral was largely attended >nd the beautiful floral offerings itold of the esteem in which she was held. .