KERRICK, Mary Louise 1898-1918

KERRICK, KING, UNKRICH

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 12/9/2009 at 15:06:57

Fairfield Daily Journal
Friday December 6, 1918

MARY LOUISE KERRICK DIED EARLY THIS MORNING

Mary Louise KERRICK the only child of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. KERRICK, died at five o'clock this morning at the home of her parents, 401 West Burlington street. Her death was due to influenza, with which she was taken ill a week ago Saturday.

Miss KERRICK was born in Fairfield December 5th, 1898, and consequently died the day following her 20th birthday. She was a graduate of the Farifield High School with the class of 1916, and was in her Junior year at Parsons College. She was an accomplished musician and would have graduated from the Parsons College Conservatory of Music at the same time that she would have completed her collegiate work. She was a member of the Unkrich Orchestra. She was a member of Elzevir Society of Parsons College.

From childhood she had been a member of the Methodist church and was a young lady of kind and generous disposition and will be missed by a wide circle of friends.

The funeral services will be held Saturday at Farifield Abby (sic. Fairfield Abbey Mausoleum), where interment will take place. The service, which occurs at 3:00 p.m., tomorrow will be in charge of Dr. C.L. Tennant, pastor of the First Methodist church, and will be brief.

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Fairfield Tribune
Friday, Dec. 18, 1918

DEATHS - KERRICK

Death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. F.D. KERRICK and called home their only child, a daughter, Mary Louise KERRICK. She had been ill but a few days but it seemed evident that death was inevitable from the first. Influenza was the cause of death which occured Friday, December 6.

Mary Louise KERRICK was born December 5, 1898, and died the day following her twentieth birthday. She graduated from the Fairfield high school with the class of 1916 and was in her junior year at Parsons college. She was an accomplished musician and expected to graduate from Parsons conservatory of music at the same time she would get her degree from the collegiate department. Miss KERRICK was a member of the Elzevir society and also of the Y.W.C.A., of the college and it was her work to find leaders for the latter organization, and one of the last things she said was about this organization was to wonder who would lead at the meeting Wednesday morning. She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from childhood, but after becoming a member of UNKRICH's orchestra, she had attended the Presbyterian Sabbath school and played in the orchestra, though she had always retained her membership in her old Sabbath school class. Mary Louise was cheerful in disposition, was loved by all who knew her and will be missed by a wide circle of friends.

Short funeral services in charge of Rev. C.L. Tennant and Dr. H.A. Mosser were held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Fairfield Abbey where amid a profusion of beautiful flowers interment was made.

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* Transcribed for genealogy records. I have no relation to this individual.

Note: Mary Louise KERRICK was the daughter of Frank D KERRICK and Lina C KING KERRICK. Frank KERRICK was an area undertaker and was responsible for the establishment of the Fairfield Abbey mausoleum in Fairfield. The KERRICK family was originally interred there; when the Abbey was closed the family was re-interred in Evergreen Cemetery, 2nd.220-1/2, in July 1968.

[Admin note: The photo below is from the 1916 Fairfield High School yearbook.]

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