KONKLIN, Ora Ethel

KONKLIN, JOHNSON

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 3/24/2015 at 19:04:42

Obituary ~ Ora Ethel Konklin
November 21, 1894 ~ December 31, 1915

Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, January 06, 1916

Miss Ora Konklin Died Friday.

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As the old year was drawing to a close the Death Angel came and called Miss Ora Konklin, the popular teacher of the sixth grade of the Leon public schools, who had been lying sick at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson in east Leon, for several weeks, suffering from typhoid fever. Miss Konklin was a prime favorite with her young pupils and with the teachers of the Leon schools, and her death came as a great shock. For weeks her life hung in the balance, but finally she began to improve and hopes were entertained for her recovery, but a relapse came and her death followed.

Ora Ethel Konklin was born near High Point on November 21, 1894 died at Leon, Dec. 31, 1915, aged 21 years, 1 month and 10 days. She graduated from the Garden Grove High School in the class of 1912. Since then she has been engaged in the teaching profession. She taught two years at the Brant school, one year at her home school and at the time she took sick was teaching the sixth grade in the Leon schools. She spent the summer of 1915 traveling through the west to the Pacific coast. She was an honored member of the Order of Eastern Star at Garden Grove. She was converted and united with the M. E. church at High Point in 1909, and has ever since been a faithful worker in the religious and social life of the church. She was a very tender hearted girl, kind and sympathetic in her nature, and generous to the fault of others. She was careful and painstaking in her work as a teacher; obedient and devoted to her parents; affectionate as a sister and a true friend to all. She will be missed in her home, and among her friends. A bright young life has passed from us. We will cherish her memory.

A short service was held at the home of Mrs. Johnson in Leon where the deceased died, on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The body was then taken to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Konklin near High Point. It remained there until Sunday. The funeral services were conducted by J. G. Duling, her pastor, at the M. E. church at High Point Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

It was one of the largest attended funeral services ever held at High Point. The body was laid to rest in the High Point cemetery.

The grief stricken family have the sympathy of the whole community.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2015