Allie (Ray) Sutherland (1869-1942)

RAY, SUTHERLAND, BOBBITT, KOLMANSPARGER, THORNTON, MATISON, COUGHENOUR

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal March 11, 1942 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held Here Tuesday for Mrs. F. C. Sutherland

Relative, friends and old neighbors, filling the Morfoot funeral home to capacity, were gathered together Tuesday afternoon for the final rites for Mrs. Allie Sutherland, 72, wife of Frank C. Sutherland, who died at her home in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday March 5, after a brief heart attack.

The body, accompanied by the husband and daughter, Mrs. Freda Kolmansparger, arrived Saturday morning and services were held Tuesday, following the arrival of the daughter, Mrs. Gladys Bobbet of Oakdale, Cal.

The sermon was preached by Rev. Reynolds C. Murdock of the Nevada Methodist church and the one song was sung by Mrs. Beulah Freeland with Mrs. Hathaway at the piano.

The floral offerings were very beautiful, the casket being literally banked in flower as a mute testimony of the high regard in which the deceased was held by relatives and friends.

Casket bearers were six nephews of the deceased.

The following brief life sketch of the deceased had been prepared and was read by the officiating pastor during the service, which preceded the interment in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery.

Mrs. Allie Sutherland, oldest child of Jacob and Lucy Ray, was born September 25, 1869, at Iowa Center, Iowa. She spent all her life in and near Nevada, Iowa, until moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee seven years ago. There she departed this life March 5, 1942 at the age of 72 years, 5 months and 10 days. She had been in very good health for one her age until the Sunday before her death when she suffered a severe heart attack.

On February 18, 1892, she was united in marriage to Mr. Frank C. Sutherland with whom she celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last month. To this union four children were born, one dying in infancy.

Mrs. Sutherland was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps and of the Nevada Methodist church since 1914.

She leaves to mourn he passing her husband, Frank, two daughters, Gladys, Mrs. Leo Bobbitt of Oakdale, California, and Freda, Mrs. F. R. Kolmansparger fo Chattanooga, Tenn.; one son, Ray L., of Glendale, Calif.; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. Frank Thornton of Nevada, Mrs. Matis Matison of Nevada and Mrs. George Coughenour of Maxwell, and many other relatives and friends.