Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

.Grief entered the Kennedy home when on Ndv. 8, 1920, the eldest daughter, Ruth, was called away. Her long illness and struggle to regain her health is familiar to many of us. Ruth Olive Kennedy was born at Kniman, Indiana, Oet. 24, 1898. When a child of three she moved with her parents to Wheatfield community where she lived the remaining years of her short life. She was an Alumnus of the Wheatfield High School, class of 1917. After teaching a year she entered Lake Forest College in September, 1918. While in school she was an ambitious and energetic* student and active in college affairs, serving as social chairman of the Y. W, C. A. and business manager of the Stentor, the College paper. She was just beginning the first semester of her Junior year in March, 1920, she was stricken with the illness which terminated in her death at the early age of twen-ty-two. years and twelve days. For eight long months she endured suffering with a patience and fortitude characteristic of her earnest, strong nature. Ruth will be remembered for her bright happy loving disposition with endeared her to all who knew her. , She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lake Forest, Illinois. An infant sister preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn their loss, her father, mother, brother, Harold, sister, Bernice, and numerous relatives and friends. The funeral services were held in the M. E. Church Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Theodore C. Abel officiating. Those from a distance attending the funeral of Ruth Kennedy were: Robert and Walter Christiansen and Mrs. Norman Anderson, of Chicago; A. T. Schrader and family, and James Kennedy and family, of LaPorte; Misses Clara and Sada Gulbransen, of Valparaiso; Mrs. G. F. Myers, Floyd Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Shirer and Richard Shirer, of Rensselaer; and Miss Margery Ward, of Lafayette.