Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1904 — Funeral of Mrs. W. B. Peterson. [ARTICLE]

Funeral of Mrs. W. B. Peterson.

The body of Mrs. May Peterson arrived Friday at 10:55 a. m. from Kansas City, and the funeral was held immediately thereafter at the F. W. Baptist ohurch, Rev. B. F. Ferguson conducting the religious servicesMrs. Peterson, whose maiden name was May Kelley, had been eiok from a chronic internal trouble for quite a long time, and when she left here to join her husband at Kansas City, a month or two ago, it was with the expectation of soon going to a hospital for an operation. On Saturday May 21st she went to a hospital at Kansas City and on Monday May 23rd submitted to the operation. Her death occoured on Wednesday evening following, Her age was 25 years, 3 months and 28 days. She leaves a husband and two children, a boy of 8 years and another of about 20 months. She was buried in Weston cemetery.