McCaughan, Kathryn A. (Miss) 1899-1930

MCCAUGHAN, WORK

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

Source: Hawarden Independent (2-6-1930)

Born: June 26, 1899
Died: February 8, 1930

BELOVED IRETON GIRL PASSES ON

The whole community was deeply saddened when word spread Monday morning that Kathryn McCaughan had been called to her eternal rest at an early hour of that day. Although many had known of her serious condition, yet this information was confined to relatives and intimate friends. Kathryn had been a patient sufferer and up until the last she was more concerned about those attending and calling on her and constantly put her own condition in the background. Hers was a beautiful life, casting sunshine everywhere. Gifted in many ways, with a character that was not assumed but genuine, which stood out like pure gold, her friends were numbered by her acquaintances. Young and old always found in her a friend with a kindly word and a cheery smile. Although in years of this earth she did not reach or even come near the scriptural three score and ten, yet who can say that what she did accomplish in the time alloted her, with her example of patience and confidence, faith and hope, that harvests of good fruit were not garnered and will yet be brought to the storehouse. The loss to the neighborhood is great, but at this time the sympathies reach out to the parents, who have loved and lost for a little while their only child. Words can hardly convey or express in times like this, so we point them to Him, who is able to keep to the uttermost and who never fails those who put their trust in Him.

Kathryn A. McCaughan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. and Edith (Work) McCaughan, was born in Ireton June 26, 1899, and died at her home February 8, 1930, aged 30 years, 7 months and 8 days. Ireton being her home all her life except during college days and while teaching. She went through the Ireton school, finishing Ireton High with the class of 1917. She attended Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois, graduating in 1921. She attended Columbia University in New York City and obtained her Master’s Degree in science in 1923. She taught in Junior College at Garden City, Kansas and later accepted a position in a similar school at Pasadena, California. While there she was taken ill with influenza, complications following from which she never recovered. Some weeks ago a change for the worse set from which she never recovered. Some weeks ago a change for the worse set in and in spite of all the loving hands and the best of care and doctors could do, the end came peacefully.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Reverend F. L. Kruwell in charge. The church was filled with friends and neighbors who gathered to pay their tribute of respect. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Burial was in the Ireton Cemetery.