Leitha Dial (Benjamin) Funk (1885-1918)

BENJAMIN, FUNK, LAYCOCK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/24/2016 at 12:56:11

From Nevada Evening Journal October 25, 1918 (front page)

DEATH OF A SISTER

Passed Away Last Night at Home at Winfield, Kansas.

A message announcing the death of Mrs. J. D. Funk, at her home in Winfield, Kansas last night at 11:30, from pneumonia was received this morning by O. J. and G. A. Benjamin. Mrs. Funk was a sister of the Messrs. Benjamin of this city and a half sister of Mrs. J. K. Laycock of Zearing. The family, consisting of her husband, her self and four sons had all been ill with influenza and on Saturday night a baby daughter was born to her.

Complications set in and on Tuesday night a message was received here stating that she was very seriously ill and her mother Mrs. Julia M. Benjamin hastened and took an early morning train for there Wednesday, arriving there before her death, which resulted from pneumonia. She continued to grow worse until called by death during Thursday night.

No definite arrangements have been made for the funeral and relatives in this city and Zearing are awaiting further information from there pending their decision to leave for there to attend the funeral services. Interment will be an Winfield, where her father is buried and where the family have lived for years.

Mrs. Funk had visited at the Benjamin homes in this city in the past and was known to a number of Nevada people.