Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Ina Grace Large was born in Rensselaer, Ind., March 21, 1869 died at-Oak Park, 18., a Chicago suburb, Aug. 20, 1906, aged 36 years and five months. She was the second child and only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vanatta and al) her early life was spent in Rensselaer, except from 1871 to 1880, during which time the family lived in Valparaiso. ' She was an attendant through most of the course, but from health failure not a graduate, of the Rensselaer high school, and later a graduate of the Cook County Normal, at Chicago. She was for some years a very sue cessful teacher, for two terms in the country schools, and then in our city schools. She was married to Thomas Large, also a teacher, July 20th, 1897. They made their home at various places, at Evansville, Ind., and Urbana, 111., and other places, at Oak Park, 111., for the last two years. Her husband survives her and three children, a girl of six, a boy of four and the girl baby born the day before her sad and untimely death. Her parents also survive her, and her brother Robert M., the latter of Anderson, Ind., and various more distant lelatives.

The body was brought to the home of her sorrowing parents here the day following her death, and there the funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, by Rev. J. 0. Parrett, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment was made in Weston cemetery. The pall-bearers were four former classmates and two associates of her early womanhood, namely, B. F. Fendig, A. R. Hopkins, C. C. Warner, B. K. Zimmerman, H. Chapman and J. J. Hunt. Friends from away who attended the funeral, were her aged grand father, John Coen, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sayler, and Miss Hattie Kerr, all of Montsceßo, Rev. 8, V. Me Kee of Crawfordsville, Miss Minnie Rathfon, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Large, of Joliet.