Alice W. (Kidd) Dewey (1874-1940)

KIDD, DEWEY, BOWERS

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

From Nevada Evening Journal June 17, 1940 (page 2)

Funeral Services Held at Colo for Mrs. J. H. Dewey

Colo, June 17 -- Funeral rites for Mrs. J. H. Dewey, who died at her hoe here June 9, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Evangelical church in Colo, after which the body was laid to rest in the Colo cemetery. The service was in charge of her pastor, Rev. Boom.

The following life sketch was read during the service.

"Alice W. Kidd was born, the second daughter of Thomas and Marian Kidd, Sept. 7, 1874, near Emington, Livingston county, Ill. and departed this life June 9, 1940, at the age of 65 years, 9 months and 2 days.

"Her early years were spent in Livingston county, Ill, where her father died in 1885. She then moved with her mother and sister to LaSalle county, Ill., and lived with her grandmother, where her mother died six years later.

"She was united in marriage to Joseph H. Dewey Feb. 24, 1892, making their home at Triumph, Ill., for five years. To this union were born two children, Mary Etta (now Mrs. Henry Bowers) and Delbert Franklin, both of Colo.

"In the year 1897 with her family she came to Iowa settling on a farm five miles north and one-half mile east of Colo, where she lived for four years. In 1901, the family moved to Colo, where the following year they bought the present home. In the fall of 1912 she and her husband took up a homestead in South Dakota, where she suffered the hardships of a rough prairie home for eighteen months. Returning from South Dakota in 1914, they built their new modern home. They occupied this home for six years, moving again to the farm in August of 1920, where she spent ten years of her life until her health would not permit her the duties she had to perform, and on Oct. 1, 1930 she came to Colo. July 23, 1905 she was baptized into the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Elder J. S. Rott at Nevada where her membership is still held.

"On Oct. 17, 1937, she fell and broke her hip and spent nine weeks in the Deaconess hospital at Marshalltown. After returning home she was an invalid, confined to her bed and wheel chair.

"Through all of her suffering she was cheerful and patient and enjoyed the calls of her neighbors and friends. She was faithfully cared for all these weeks by her husband and companion and her children.

"Besides her husband and two children, she is survived by a granddaughter and three grandsons, a host of other relatives and numerous friends."