HEWITT, Mrs. Rosa: Died 1949

HEWITT, MCLINDEN

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Date: 12/2/2013 at 08:53:44

**Handwritten: Feb 16 - 49
State Deaths

MRS. ROSA HEWITT.

DOUDS. - Mrs. Rosa Hewitt, former resident of Douds and Ottumwa, died Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. at the Hazel Crest hospital at Homewood, Ill.

The wife of Clarence E. Hewitt, who is also a patient at the Hazel Crest hospital, Mrs. Hewitt and her husband had lived in Homewood the last six years. A native of the Douds community, she spent the early part of her life on a farm near here before moving to Ottumwa approximately 35 years ago. The Hewitt family lived there until 1923, then at Iowa City before going to Homewood. Mrs. Hewitt was a member of the St. Aloysius Catholic church in Eldon.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Col. Ruel Hewitt, serving with the army medical corps in Japan, and Dr. John Hewitt of New York; one daughter, Mabel, of Harvey, Ill.; and one brother, Horace McLinden of Florida. A sister preceded her in death.

The body will be brought to the Pedrick funeral home in Douds.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 359, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA