Mary Loo Springer Howes 1878 - 1919

HOWES, SPRINGER

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 1/24/2008 at 22:41:51

The Clinton Herald Wednesday July 2, 1919 p. 6 Mary Loo Springer Howes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.R. Springer, 527 Fourth avenue, and wife of R.N. Howes, city alderman passed away this morning at 1:30 o'clock at the home of her parents, where she had been taken when the illness that had slowly undermined her health for more than a year, became critical. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. H.J. Rendall, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. She is mourned by her husband and four children, Sergeant Major Edward S. Howes, who went overseas with the 88th division and is now studying at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr. R.N. Howes, formerly with the A.E.F., and recently returned from France, Frank Beddell Howes, a student at the State University of Iowa,a nd Miss Harriet Howes at home, also her parents, and two sisters, Ada and Florence, married and residing in Minneapolis. Mary Loo Springer was born in Clinton April 28, 1878, graduated from the Clinton High school in 1890, was married to R.N. Howes October 27, 1891. During her short but helpful life she had been the center of many a circle organized for social pleasures and for study, having been one of the leaders in the formation of the Lyceum circle. She was a woman of brilliant mind and inspired her children to study also, so that they were all identified with her as members of the Clinton High school alumni association. Her illness was of a type that was complex to resident physicians and when as a last resort a trip was made to Rochester, Minn., the diagnosis of an incurable ailment was announced. She bore it with a womanly calm, watched every son don the khaki, the youngest going into the sutdent reserve corps, even though she realized that should war continue none of the three might be with her when she closed her eyes in her last sleep. To friends of many years and these are more than her immediate family realizes, her passing brings sorrow.