Caroline Armstrong (Dawes) Kennedy (1853-1945)

DAWES, KENNEDY, BROCKHURST, HANSEN, BALTHIS, SCHAUB

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal August 18, 1945 (page 4)

Grave Side Services Held Friday For Mrs. Caroline Kennedy

Collin, Aug. 18 -- Grave-side services were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the late Mrs. Caroline Dawes Kennedy of Colorado Springs, Colo., who died on Tuesday at the hoe of her daughter, Lulu Brockhurst, near Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.

The Rev. George Adkins of the local Church of Christ had charge of the prayer service and Collins Chapter Order of the Eastern Star gave the impressive burial service of that order.

Pallbearers were chosen from friends of the Kennedy family who were present at the services.

The following obituary was taken from a Colorado Springs paper.

Mrs. Caroline Dawes Kennedy, formerly of Colorado Springs, but who for the last year and a half made her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brockhurst, at the Brockhurst dude ranch near Green Mountain Falls, died Tuesday at a local hospital. She was 91 years old.

Mrs. Kenneday was the widow of Adelbert Lee Kennedy, who died in 1926 at Atlantic, Calif. Before going to Green Mountain Falls he lived in Colorado Spring for twelve years. She was known for her pioneer experiences in Iowa and of late years she had made it the custom to hold open house on her birthday.

She was born December 10, 1853, in Alexandria, Ohio, and was married Sept. 21, 1881, at Van Wert, Iowa. She spent 38 years on an Iowa farm, Northview near Collins, where her family was reared. Later she made her home at Ames.

During the early days in Iowa Mrs. Kennedy was often called to minister at the sick bed of her neighbors of the plains. Often she and her husband were called out at night because of the illness of a neighbor and they would travel miles by horse and buggy. Mrs. Kennedy's hobby was knitting and she had knitted many vest sweaters for men and sweaters and caps for children. She knitted her husband's sox and children's stockings in the early days on the Iowa farm. Growing flowers was another of her hobbies.

In 1941 Mrs. Kennedy suffered a broken hip in a fall and was in the hospital four months.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Brockhurst; Mrs. F. M. Hansen of Palo Alto, Calif.; Mrs. R. F. Balthis of Kirbyville, Tex. and Mrs. I. O. Schaulb [should be Schaub] of Raleigh, N. C.; eight grandchildren, five of whom are in the service, all army officers and seven great grandchildren.