Farley, Miss Frances 1878-1911

FARLEY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 12/2/2023 at 13:03:24

Algona Courier, Sep. 29, 1911 p.8

FRANCES FARLEY
A pall of gloom was cast over the entire county Thursday morning, Sept. 21st, when the announcement was made that Frances Farley was dead. Had dropped dead in the home of her parents, her life going out in the twinkling of an eye.

Frances Farley was born in the town of Lyons, Walworth county, Wisconsin, September 26th, 1878. Her parents came to Whittemore in 1879, where the home has been since that date.

Miss Frances was a graduate of the Algona normal school in 1896, also of the Nora Springs Seminary in 1897. She taught in the Whittemore high school for a time, and then took a course in the Illinois Training School for Nurses in 1901 and 1902. She was appointed Superintendent of the Post Graduate Hospital in 1904. She was appointed Superintendent in 1905 of the Riverside hospital of Paducah, Kentucky. This being a new institution she opened and put it in operation and managed it for more than two years. Her health failing, she came home and has been with her people up to the time of her sad and untimely death.

Frances Farley was one natures noble women, with a kind, gentle and loving spirit. Her heart went out to those whose burdens were heavy, to those who needed the help and assistance of a ministering angel. No better evidence of this could be shown than by the grand concourse of friends who attended her funeral, and the splendid floral offerings that were laid on her bier.

Frances Farley has gone to dwell with the angels in the sweet bye and bye. She has won the good fight. Sympathy is a kindly expression of sorrow for those bereaved. We trust that those who are in sorrow, and we too, in the providence of God in his good time may meet our loved ones who have gone before in that great beyond, that great realm, that city not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens, where sorrow and trouble and death do not come, and be happy with them for ever and ever.