Strother, Josephine 1875 – 1900

STROTHER, BARTON, NICHOLS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:26

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer January 5, 1900, LP, C2 and Decorah Republican Jan. 11, 1900 P 4 C 2

Miss Josephine Strother Dead.
Seldom has the telegraph brought sadder news to more hearts than from which bore the message to loving relatives and friends this Wednesday evening saying, “Josephine has passed away.” Her death, following so soon after that of her father, Worden Strother, who passed away just six weeks ago to-day, makes the shock all the more hard for her friends. With her mother, she went south two weeks ago Monday, hoping that a change might prove beneficial. They reached Louisville, Ky., the following evening, but Josephine’s frail condition precluded a farther journey, and she peacefully passed away Wednesday, Jan. 3d, at 1:01 p. m., at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Barton, at Louisville.
Mrs. Strother will start from Louisville Louisville{sic} Thursday evening, the 4th inst., and reach Chicago Friday morning, and Cresco Saturday morning. Friends will go from here to meet her in Chicago.
“Her lamp has flickered and gone out here, only to shine more brightly in the Great Beyond.”

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer January 9. 1900, LP, C6

Miss Josephine Strother
was born in Cresco at the family home, now the Sister’s School, May the 22nd, 1875, and passed away at Louisville, Ky., Jan. 3, 1900, aged 24 years 7 months and 11 days.
Miss Josephine spent all the years of her young life in Cresco, was respected, loved and esteemed by a large circle of friends for her amiable qualities and noble generous nature and disposition. Her funeral was from the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Nichols, and was largely attended by her young companions and sorrowing friends from Cresco and vicinity, from Decorah, and West Union, and by M. L. Luther and wife, of Minneapolis. She had been in failing health for more than a year, and was advised to go south for change of climate in hopes that a change for the better might result.
Three weeks ago with her mother, they departed for Louisville where at the home of Mrs. Barton, a sister of Mr. Strother, she passed away. The interment was in Oak Lawn Cemetery where beside her father, she sleeps the sleep of death.
The St. Cecelia Symphony of which she was a member and other admiring friends here and elsewhere sent a profusion of the choicest flowers obtainable to render as mild as possible the presence of death. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the sorrowing friends.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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