Marion Duncan

DUNCAN, TOMPKINS, FROST, EHLE

Posted By: Becki (email)
Date: 5/23/2017 at 09:22:42

“Miss Marion Duncan Passes Away at Home of Her Sister, Mrs. Tompkins at Clear Lake.
Hundreds of Mason City men and women of all ages, and their children sincerely mourned this morning when news was received of the death of Miss Marion Duncan, at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. C. Tompkins, at Clear Lake. Miss Duncan had just completed twenty-eight years of service as an instructor in the Mason City grade school, retiring at the end of the year just closed. A few weeks ago the teachers of the schools united in a banquet in her honor, as a testimonial of the esteem in which they hold her. Though she has at different times taught in practically all the Mason City ward schools, her longest service, and that which she just finished, was at Central school.
A form of arterial sclerosis was the cause of her death, which came after an illness of less than two days duration. Yesterday morning it had been thought that she was better, but toward night she had a relapse, and passed beyond mortal aid.
Beside Mrs. Tompkins, she is survived by another sister, Mrs. A. D. Frost, and her nephews and nieces, George E. Frost, county auditor, Mrs. Stettler, Tom Ehle, a Kansas City newspaper man and Dr. Tompkins of Clarion.
The funeral will be held at Clear Lake, but arrangements have not been completed for it and announcement of it, and more complete obituary will appear tomorrow.”
(Mason City Globe Gazette, June 15, 1915, pg 6)