Dr. Mary Catherine (Huffaker) Pitcher (1883-1931)

HUFFAKER, PITCHER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/12/2021 at 19:27:01

From Nevada Evening Journal April 4, 1931 (page 1)

FORMER COLLINS WOMAN IS DEAD

DR. MARY PITCHER PASSED AWAY AT TAMA FRIDAY NIGHT

Special to the Journal.
Collins, April 4--Dr. Mary Pitcher, 47, former resident of the Collins neighborhood, died Friday evening at 11:00, at Tama, where she has been living for some time. She was ill about a week and death was due to nervous breakdown and rheumatic fever.*

Funeral services will be held at Methodist church in Tama Sunday at 2:00, after which the body will be brought to Collins, for interment in Evergreen cemetery.

Mrs. Pitcher leaves besides her husband Dr. W. S. Pitcher and a step-son Glee Pitcher of Tama, a sister Mrs. Walter Pitcher of Rhodes, a brother Harrison Huffaker of Collins and another Cyrus Huffaker of Rhodes.

She was born on a farm south of Marshalltown 47 year ago, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. [should be J. W.] Huffaker. When she was about 13 years of age the family moved to Kansas, then to Missouri and finally back to Iowa and lived near Collins for some time.

She was a graduate from the National Chiropractic college in Chicago and was married to Dr. Pitcher, a chiropractic practitioner also, about 11 years ago.

She was a member of the Seventhday Adventist faith and was well-known to many Nevada people.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Her death record gives cause of death as endocarditis.