Winslow, Grace – 1883-1908

BARBEE, COLEMAN, HOLLINGSWORTH, STOLTE, TABOR, WINSLOW

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 10/9/2016 at 13:24:21

Miss Grace Winslow, who died from heart trouble after eight weeks of suffering at the home of her mother, Mrs. Caroline Barbee, Thursday night, Aug. 13, was born in this city twenty-four years ago last November. All her life has been spent here. After a few years in the public school she began work in the Taylor-Newell factory. For years she was a faithful worker there. Two years ago she went to Washington, DC, and visited one year in the home of her only sister, Mrs. Fanny Winslow Coleman. Returning she did not go back to her old work, but entered the Jasper County Telephone office, where the past year she was a telephone operator.
Just two months before her death she left the office on Saturday night expecting to take a month’s vacation. The following Monday she was taken sick. The month passed and then another and the little girl who had worked so well and patiently and had suffered a great deal, closed her eyes forever and was laid to rest Sunday morning, August 16.
Services were held from the United Presbyterian church Sunday morning at the usual time of the morning service. Rev. E. F. Gillis officiated. The regular church choir sang the hymns. The casket was covered with floral offerings from friends. The bearers were Messrs. Ross Mowry, Will McCullough, Walter and Logan Blizzard, Louie Krause and Willfred Morgan.
The church was filled. Many of her young friends, among them her associates in the telephone office, sat with the mourners.
Grace is survived by her mother, the one sister whose home is in Washington who could not be with her, and a little brother, Frank Barbee. There are also her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stolte, her uncle, Frank Stolte, of Washington, Iowa, and her aunts, Mrs. Lottie Stolte, of Kansas City, Mrs. Sadie Tabor, near Newton, and Mrs. W. W. Hollingsworth, of San Diego, Calif. All were here for the funeral but Mrs. Hollingsworth.
Deceased lived an unusually busy simple life and had a circle of friends who loved her for her fidelity to her home and mother and for her loving, gentle disposition.
Source: Newton Daily News; August 18, 1908, page 1