Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — Death of Mary E. Healy. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mary E. Healy.

It is with deep regret that we announce that death has again invaded the ranks of that most estimable, popular and niutually affection family, 8. and M. Healy’s, and carried, away their eldest daughter, Mary E. Healy. Her sickness was typhoid pneumonia, and continued almost exactly four weeks. It began with a cold taken while assisting the family in house cleaning. During the vicissitudes ot her illness she seemed several times on the high road towards recovery, and on the very morning of the clay she died, her symptoms were so favoiable as to lead her parents to believe recovery was assured. But relapses followed the improvements, each time, and on the day of her death she began to grow worse at 6 o’clock in the morning, and at four in the afternoon the end came. She was rational during nearly the whole period of her sickness, and bore her sufferings with unusual fortitude. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon,, at St. Augustine’s Catholic church, the services being conducted by Rev. Father Willard. The remains were laid in Mr. Healy’s family burial lot, in Weston cemetery, by the side of those of her younger sister, Agnes, whose death she mourned less than fourteen months ago. Mary’s age was twenty-three years. Her death is a sad blow to her fanj£|fc, and has called oat for them thesympathies of the community, to an unusual degree.