Dorothy Angeline (Veneman) Runneals (ca. 1848-1910)

VENEMAN, JOHNSON, HARVEY, EMERY, NELSON, STODDARD, RUNNEALS, ROBISON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/18/2017 at 19:24:33

From Nevada Representative October 7, 1910 (front page)

OBITUARY

SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. RUNNEALS

Mrs. M. L. Runneals of this city died very suddenly Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dolan, where she had stopped in distress on her way home from the "men's supper" at the Methodist church. With her husband and daughter, Mrs. C. A. Robison, she had attended to supper and had been waited upon but was observed not to eat. Evidently not feeling well, she excused herself and started out. Mrs. Robison followed and accompanied her mother from the Library northward, and by the time they reached the Dolan residence on the next corner Mrs. Runneals was suffering so greatly that the stopped there. Mrs. Dolan met them at the door and with Mrs. Robison helped Mrs. Runneals to a couch. Mrs. Runneals said she was dying and her condition grew worse very rapidly. Doctors and Mr. Runneals were summoned but restoratives had little or no effect, and in about twenty minutes from the time she left the church she was dead. Later an undertaker was summoned and her body was removed to the Runneals home on Pine street.

Mrs. Runneals was about fifty-nine years of age and her maiden name was Dorothy A. Veneman. She was a sister of Hon. W. J. Venenman and Mrs. D. C. Johnson of Maxwell, and she came with the Veneman family from Indiana to Story county in the early days. She was five times married, her husbands in succession being Dr. Emery, who was killed in a run-away at Boone; Rev. Harvey, who died in Des Moines; Christian Nelson, who proved to be a matrimonial swindler; a Dr. Stoddard of Chicago, from whom she was soon divorced; and Mr. Runneals, to the last of whom she was married at Clinton, Iowa, November 14, 1908. She had two children, Fannie, now Mrs. Chas. A. Robison,and Henry Emery, who was killed on the railroad. She also leaves an adopted son, Royal Harvey, who is just coming to manhood.

Mrs. Runneals was a woman of ability and worth, and she was esteemed by numerous friends. Her funeral was conducted this forenoon from the Methodist church in this city by Rev. A. L. Golden of Boone, assisted by Rev. R. E. Shaw, of Nevada. The interment will be a the cemetery near Elkhart in Polk County.