Mrs. Phillip Ray

RAY, HELMER, BELLES, SEVERIN

Posted By: Mary Dolan
Date: 10/5/2001 at 15:59:21

Clinton Age
08 Feb 1905

Death Angel Calls Again

Mrs. Phillip Ray Passes Away at Her Home Yesterday Morning.

Sudden Relapse After Weeks Illness with Lagrippe Causes Demise --- The Obituary.

Yesterday morning at twenty minutes before seven o'clock Mrs. Phillip RAY passed away at the family home at 228 Fourth avenue, after a nine weeks illness with la grippe. Her illness dated back to before Christmas, but after several weeks of sickness a very apparent rally came, and she was well enough to go about the city and mingle with her friends.

Sunday afternoon a sudden relapse was noticed and from that time it was known by the watchers at her bedside that the end was not far away, for Mrs. RAY had been afflicted with heart trouble, brought about by successive attacks of la grippe in previous years, and this trouble became very much aggravated. Her sisters were summoned to her bedside, Mrs. HELMER reached the city yesterday at noon, but Mrs. BELLES, be detained by the storm which raged over the south, did not arrive until today.

Mrs. RAY was born in Germany and was aged 58 years 8 months and 3 days. She came to this country with her parents in 1855 and was married on Christmas day, 1867, (page torn)
Ray, the ceremony being (page torn)
born to Mr. and Mrs. RAY, Harry Fred and Walter, who will comfort the father and husband in his loneliness. There are also two sisters, Mrs. L. HELMER of Terre Haute, Ind., and Mrs. C. BELLES of Memphis, Tenn., and a brother, Fred SEVERIN, of Joplin, Mo.

Before her marriage, when as Amelia SEVERIN, she was the center of a merry coterie of young people, and afterwards as a wife and mother, she has kept her chosen friends about her. Possessed of a nature that was happy and kind, she kept the friends of her childhood days in the days of her womanhood. Her loss will be deeply mourned by all of these life-long friends, who will as best they may, extend silent sympathy to the bereaved and saddened household.

("La grippe" was influenza.)