Margaret Kane Thompson d.1918

KANE, THOMPSON

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/4/2009 at 21:59:32

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 21 October 1918.
[Transcriber's note: This obituary was VERY hard to read, film had badly degraded.]

MRS. THOMPSON DIES MOST UNEXPECTEDLY
Midday yesterday brought the shocking news of the death of Margaret Kane Thompson at Cedar Rapids. Though she has been ill for two weeks she had so far recovered as to be pronounced out of danger therefore the tragic news was really overwhelming.

Snatched from life when it was showing the fulfillment of all her brightest hopes, her sandering from husband and baby boy seem sad beyond expressing.

She was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kane of 211 east Davenport street of this city and was twenty five years old. Following her graduation from the Iowa City high school she took her degree from S.U.I. in 1915. September first of the same year she was married to George King Thompson a prominent young attorney of Cedar Rapids. The bereaved young husband had left her room at the hospital to go back to their lovely new home on Vernon Heights for a short time and was summoned to her side less than an hour later to find that she had already passed into her long sleep. Though she had been ill of influenza and pneumonia for more than two weeks, she seemed to be slowly but surely recovering. Her little son George King, junior, is little more than two years old and has been here with his grandparents during the young mothers illness.

A social favorite in town and school circles Margaret Kane was one of Iowa City's most popular young women; in her new home she carried on the same happy existence. During her college days she was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and a reporter for the Citizen.

Aside from those already mentioned she is mourned by two sisters and two brothers. These are Frank Kane a second lieutenant in camp at Deming. Gretchen Kane a senior at S.U.I., Myra and Max.

The funeral will be held from the Kane home after the arrival of the remains on the nine o'clock car from Cedar Rapids, on Tuesday Morning. It will be private and conducted by the Very Rev. Father W. P. Shannahan. Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery.