DOROTHY, Opal Louisa WILLIAMS 1904 - 1931

DOROTHY, WILLIAMS, HOAGE, DARNELL, MORGAN, HOOTMAN

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 4/21/2011 at 20:26:08

Fairfield Daily Ledger
Wednesday Feb. 4, 1931
Pg. 1 Col. 4

MRS. DOROTHY PASSED AWAY
Services Friday at 2 O'clock from Hoskins Funeral Home

Opal Louisa DOROTHY, wife of Thomas DOROTHY of 705 North Fourth street, passed away last evening at the Jefferson county (sic. hospital) about 6 o'clock. She has been in poor health for the past year and sick for the past four weeks. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Hoskins funeral home.

Mrs. DOROTHY is survived by her husband and a one year old son, Alton Thomas. She also leaves her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George W. WILLIAMS, two sisters, Mrs. Alice HOGUE (sic. Hazel Alice WILLIAMS HOAGE) of this city and Aletha at home and three brothers, Paul, Kenneth and Edwin.

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Fairfield Ia. Daily Ledger
Monday Feb. 9, 1931
Pg. 2 Col. 4

DEATHS

DOROTHY FUNERAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas DOROTHY were held Friday afternoon from the Hoskins funeral home in charge of Rev. S. P. Williamson of the Christian church. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery.

Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. A. C. Johnson sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "When They Ring the Golden Bells." They were accompanied by Miss Reva Patten at the piano.

Casket attendants were E. A. Phillips, Looney Stone, R. E. Edwards, Frank Gibson, Fay Champ and Harlan Cole.

* Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa. Public Grounds Row 7 Space 21.

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Added by Admin, September 2021 --

"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, February 11, 1931
Page TWO, Column 4

OBITUARY

Apal (sic) Louisa DOROTHY

Opal Louisa was the third daughter of the eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. George WILLIAMS. She was born at Brighton, Iowa on the second of November, 1904 and passed away at the Jefferson county hospital on February the third 1931. At the time of her death she was 26 years 3 months and 1 day old. All of her life, excepting seven years spent in Moline, Ill., was spent in Fairfield.

On November 19 of 1927 she was married to Thomas DOROTHY, living happily in this union till her death. One child, Alton Thomas, now just over a year old was born to them and survives his mother.

To mourn their loss she leaves her sorrowing husband Thomas DOROTHY, her son Alton Thomas, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George WILLIAMS, two sisters, Mrs. Alice HOGUE (sic - HOAGE) and Aletha, three brothers Paul, Kenneth, and Edwin all of Fairfield. Her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles DARNELL and Mrs. Julia MORGAN survive and these with her many other relatives and numerous friends will mourn her passing.

She has been ill for some time and was bedfast the last four weeks. She suffered much but bore it all patiently. She passed quietly away at 6 oclock on last Tuesday evening.

She made her confession of faith in Christ at the church in the West End and was a worker in the Mission for some time. In her failing health she found much comfort in her Christian faith which sustained her to the end. Loathe to leave her husband and child she answered her Masters call and awaits her loved ones in a better land. She was laid to rest in the Evergreen cemetery with her two sisters, Mrs. May HOOTMAN and Virginia, and one brother Alton.

Admin note: Husband Thomas Harold DOROTHY was married three times, with Opal being his second wife. He died in 1967 in New Mexico and was buried there.