VAN ALLEN, Alice Jane 1851-1921

VAN ALLEN, MORRIS, INGALLS, HOLMES, CORFE, LOCKWOOD

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 11/24/2002 at 14:06:42

The Advertiser Thursday May 12, 1921 p. 7 Mrs. Alice Jane Van Allen, wife of John D. Van Allen of this city passed into her final rest at 7 o'clock this morning at Jane Lamb hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the family home, 723 Seventh avenue. Rev. H.J. Rendall, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will have charge of the funeral service and burial will be in Springdale cemetery. Mrs. Van Allen's death in mourned today by many sorrowing friends, won during a residence in Clinton of many years. Her death closed a life of tender devotion to her family and of the most constant loyalty to her friends. Alice Jane Holmes was born in Chicago on October 27, 1851. She was united in marriage with Mr. Van Allen on February 14, 1875, and they came to Clinton on July 1, 1892. She is survived by her husband; one son, Frederick H. Van Allen; one daughter, Mrs. Besse Van Allen Morris, and four grandchildren, Jane and John B. Van Allen and Mary Jane Morris, and Walter D. Morris III. There also survive six half-brothers and sisters; J.A. Ingalls, Kingsley, Ia.; Samuel J. Holmes, Washburn, Wis.; J.H. Holmes, Colfax, Ia.; Casper Holmes, Kootenai, Ida.; Mrs. William Corfe and Mrs. Frank Lockwood of Union, Ia. Mrs. Van Allen had been ill for several years and had suffered acutely for six months. She was taken to the hospital on Sunday, May 1. During her long association with neighbors and friends in Clinton, Mrs. Van Allen had won the esteem and love of all who knew her. Her nature was kindly and generous, with an ever ready response to the demands of charity or sympathy. At the hospital, where she spent he last days, her patience and consideration for those about her were often manifestations of an attribute which had been hers through life and which won the hearts of all. She bore her sufferings with the truest Christian fortitude, ever mindful still of the comfort of others, and her life entire was a beautiful example of noble altruism and unselfish devotion to the happiness of her family and her friends. She was for many years a member of the First Presbyterian congregation of this city.