Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1920 — MISS NELL DRAKE IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

MISS NELL DRAKE IS DEAD

Popular Young Lady Passed Away Saturday Morning. Miss Nell Drake, daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Drake of just south of town, who had been in very poor health for the past few months from cancer of the stomach, passed away Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Drake was bdrn in Chicago Nov. 1, 1888, and came to this city with her mother in 1894, her father having been killed in a fire during the world’s fart in Chicago in 1893. She was a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and was a young lady with a very pleasing personality and was loved by all who knew her. Deceased is survived by her mother, one sister, Mrs. Alice Jones, of Gary and two brothers, James and John Drake, of Chicago. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church Monday morning at 9 o’clock and the remains taken to Chicago on the 10:36 train for burial la the family lot in the Sag cemetery. Among the out of town people here to attend the funeral were Mrs. Charles Madlung and daughter Marie of Monon, William and James Maloney and Miss Margaret Maloney, Mrs. .P. G. O’Connell and children, Mrs. Bernard Drake and two - children, James Drake and wife and George Drtike and wife, all of Chicago, and Miss Marie Plunkett of Kentland.