Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — MRS. B. FORSYTHE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. B. FORSYTHE DEAD.

Wife of Well Known Merchant Dies In a Chicago Hospital. Mrs. Cora E. Forsythe, wife of B. Forsythe of Rensselaer, died at 2:30 a. m., Tuesday following* an operation at the Hahnemann hospital in Chicago. The remains were taken direct to her old home in Xew Philadelphia. Ohio, for burial beside other relatives, the funeral taking j iace Thursday. Deceased was born July 1, 1855, and was therefore almost 56 years of age at the time of her death. Xews of her death was a great shock to 'her many friends in Rensselaer, where and • her husband had resided for the last twenty years and where they owned a beautiful home and business block, also a large farm near town. The Democrat received a letter from Air. Forsythe Tuesday afternoon after going to press, com eying the sad intelligence of his wife’s death. Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe had been conducting a store at Winamac since last fall, practically all the time, and she was taken from there to the hospital only a few days before Jier death, to undergo another operation, she having been previously operated on last fall. When leasing their department store building here some two years ago M'r. Forsythe ana wife expected to retire from active business, travel and see much of t!he world and take their ease after a successful business career, but he could not sell his remaining goods advantageously in bulk and decided to close them out at retail, then they would quit. But the truth of t'hat old adage, that the best laid . plans of mice and men oft gang a glee, is once more demonstrated, and the beautiful home, the finest in Rensselaer, although built more than ten years ago, has scarcely been occupied at alt and is' now draped in mourning for its mistress, while the well earned competency of years of close attention to business—for Mrs. Forsythe was an active assistant of her husband’s and spent most of her time at the cashier’s desk — is left behind. With so much to live for and the dream of years about to be realized —the retirement to the enjoyment of home pleasures of travel —'her death is a pecularly sad one, and The Democrat extends its sincerest sympathy to the husband who is so suddenly bereft of his life companion, with whom 'he had so long looked forward to, of passing down the shady side of life on a flowerstrewn pathway unto the end of all human hopes and desires.