Reynolds, Minnie York

REYNOLDS, YORK

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 2/22/2008 at 08:00:03

Jackson Sentinel
December 14, 1920

A message was received here by relatives Saturday, bearing the cruel news to aged parents and devoted sisters, that Mrs. Minnie York-Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. York of this city, had been found dead in the dining room of her home on North Dearborn street, Chicago, two gas jets in an adjoining room being wide open the fumes from which caused the death of the unfortunate young woman. Immediately upon receipt of the message, Mrs. June Parker, a sister of Mrs. Reynolds, left for Chicago to take charge of the body and be present at the investigation. The circumstances surrounding the untimely death of Mrs. Reynolds need not be detailed here, for while the coroner’s verdict ascribes it a case of suicide, relatives and friends here cannot picture Minnie in any other than in a role of happiness and her jolly disposition is far from being suggestive of self-destruction. To the aged parents, especially the infirmed mother, the sympathy of a community goes out. Weighed down by illness coupled with the passing of numerous loved ones of late, make her burdens indeed heavy and if ever kindness and tended sympathy were timely it is surely now.

Mrs. Reynolds was born on the old farm near Hurstville, October 3, 1882, and passed away in Chicago, Ill., December 11, 1920, death being due to asphyxiation. Minnie, as she was familiarly known here, grew to young womanhood in this vicinity and her jolly disposition won her many friends who are saddened by her untimely death. She was united in marriage to Crosbie A. Reynolds of Chicago who passed away in April 1918. Since this time Mrs. Reynolds had continued to make her home there in which home her death occurred.

Besides the bereaved parents there survive three sisters, Mrs. Mary Davis, Mrs. Ida Woods and Mrs. June Parker of this city, and two brothers, Wallace York of Mitchell, S. D., and Dr. O. E. York of Belle Plaine, Iowa.

The remains are expected to reach here this Tuesday evening, accompanied by Mrs. Parker and the funeral will be held from the York home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. E. A. Lang of the Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in Mt. Hope cemetery.