Delores Harriet Kale

KALE, ZELLER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 5/5/2006 at 19:40:05

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 7, 1929

DELORES KALE Dies in Hospital Monday
Daughter of County Superintendent Succumbs to Operation for Appendicitis

Delores Harriet Kale, 15 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Kale, died early Monday morning in Des Moines, at the Methodist hospital, following an operation for appendicitis.

She became seriously ill on Monday preceding her death, while at school, came home and a physician was summoned who pronounced the disease appendicitis. On Wednesday she was taken to the hospital and was operated on that evening with apparent favorable results. Pneumonia developed Friday and she passed awaay shortly after midnight Sunday.

All during her life she had been a healthy child and had developed a robust constitution. She excelled both mentally and physically, giving evidence of a personality far beyond one of her age.

She was a member of the Camp Fire Girls, Girl Reserves and had been pianist for the glee clubs and other musical organizations of the high school for the past two years. She never missed a promotion at school and was especially endowed with a genius for music.

Delores was active in church work, was a member of the M. E. church, attended Sunday school regularly and was in Mrs. Keast's class and was also regular in Epworth League attendance, being their pianist. She was a member of the church choir and a member of the Queen Esther Standard Bearer Missionary society. She is survived by her parents, Lester Kale, who is an auctioneer and implement dealer, and Kathryn Kale, who is county superintendent, one brother,Eugene, of San Antonio, Texas, and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the M. E. church, the Rev. A. P. Keast officiating. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery. A sextet of high school girl friends furnished the music. They were: Mabel Rowe, Dorothy Guilliams, Miriam Benge, Marjory Danforth, Genevieve Kuntz and Alice Dabney. The pall bearers were: Lloyd King, Donald Hughes, Ward Wight, Wayne Newton, H. Davis McCallon and Lloyd Devault. The honorary pall bearers were the Camp Fire Girls, who also had charge of the arrangement of the flowers.