Kelly, Lulu Elaine - 1872-1928

HAND, HANKE, HARRIMAN, KELLY, KORF, WORMLEY

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 5/24/2016 at 16:03:12

Mrs. Harry Kelly Dies Last Night
Well Known Resident Succumbs After Extended Illness; Rites to be Held Wednesday
Mrs. Harry L. Kelly, well known resident of this city, died last evening at 10:30 o'clock at the Skiff Memorial hospital. Mrs. Kelly had been ill intermittently, for a period of 10 years.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Congregational church in this city Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock; and burial will be in the Wittemberg cemetery. Dr. George C. Williams, pastor of the local Congregational church, and Rev. Ross S. Mills, pastor of the Wittemberg church, will have charge of the services.
Born Near Newton
Lulu Elaine Wormley, daughter of Samuel and Susan Wormley, was born near Newton in the Wittemberg neighborhood, April 8, 1872. She was the third daughter and seventh child of a family of 12 children: George, Tom, John, Arminta, Sam, Cora, Lulu, Mary, Henry, Patience, Jay and David.
The great part of her life transpired here in this community. She spent her childhood days at her family's farm in the Wittemberg neighborhood, attending the country school nearby. She continued her education at Hazel Dell academy under the guidance of her oldest brother, George Wormley. Later she studied music and normal training at Ames, after which she came back to teach music and school in her community.
She was always an intense and active member of the schools and at age of 10 years she first expressed her Christian faith.
Married in 1896
Her marriage to Harry L. Kelly of Omaha, Nebr., March 18, 1896, took her to her new home in that city. To this union two children were born, Patience and William. In 1916, she and her family returned to Newton where they have since continued to reside.
Besides her husband and two children, Mrs. Lee Hanke of Newton and William E. Kelly of Cedar Rapids, she is survived by four sisters, Mrs. George O. Kelly of Newton, Mrs. Cora Hand of Newton, Mrs. Henry Korf of Newton and Mrs. Mary Harriman of Ames and four brothers, Tom Wormley of Buffalo, Mont., John Wormley of Kingsley, Ia., Jay Wormley and David Wormley both of the Wittemberg neighborhood. Her parents and three brothers have preceded her in death.
Source: Newton Daily News; December 1, 1928