Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — Mrs. George B. Colvert Dead. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. George B. Colvert Dead.

Mrs. Kate Colvert, widow of Geo. B. Colvert who died in Nov. 1910, died Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at her home on Forest street. She had been sick for many months and has slowly growp weaker. Since the death of her husband, she and her son, Clinton O. Colvert, have continued to live together. Her two sons, Clinton 0., of Rensselaer, and Leo Colvert of Joliet, 111., and her sisters, Mrs. T. F. Clark of Battle Ground, and Mrs. Anna Heath of Oxford, were at her bedside when death, came. Her brother, Lewis Fletcher, of Chicago, arrived Thursday. Mrs. Emma Townsley of North Dakota, was not able ot attend the funeral, which was held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. Paul C Curnick. The Colvert family have resided in Rensselaer for about twenty years and Mr. Colvert was for many years employed by Jay W. Williams, later by W. J. Wright, in the furniture business. Mrs. Colvert had mat*' friends in Rensselaer, who are very sorry to learn of her death and their sympathy is extended to the sons and other relatives of the deceased.