Mrs. C. D. Streeter

STREETER

Posted By: Volunteer: Stacey Swierk
Date: 9/13/2008 at 23:51:21

Date & Newspaper Unknown

Mrs. C. D. Streeter Suicides

“It has been very generally known that Mrs. C. D, Streeter had been in bad health for some time. With her system shattered by the long and strenuous work she had done in the last year for the young women of Keokuk, she became mentally unbalanced and lay down on a bed to die after turning on all the gas jets in the room. She was dead when discovered later. And thus passed away a beautiful life.”

The people of Keosauqua were sadly shocked when the news came here on Monday morning of this week that Mrs. C. D. Streeter, of Keokuk, had committed suicide. She and her husband had made their home here for several years prior to 1902, and here her lovable qualities were known and highly appreciated. It was also known that she had a beautiful home, with plenty of this world’s gifts and pleasing environments to make hers a happy life. Hence the cause of the shock at her sudden and sad surrender of life.

The quotation above, taken from Monday’s Keokuk Gate City, tells the story and closes with a beautiful tribute to a noble woman.

She was an active working member in the Congregational church, the Y. W. C. A., the Visiting Nurse Association, the Civic League and the P. E. O. Society. She had a consciencious idea of duty, the result being that strenuous labors overtaxed her strength and a mental break down followed physical exhaustion which had afflicted her for some time.

She leaves a heart-broken husband and adopted daughter, besides father, mother, sister, and three brothers.

[Photocopy of this obit is located on page 262 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA]