PARROTT, Kate (MANNING) 18??-1942

PARROTT, MANNING, BRYANT, IVES

Posted By: Betty Hootman-Volunteer
Date: 3/5/2014 at 14:18:18

Mrs. Kate Parrott

Mrs. Kate Manning Parrott, a former Keosauqua resident, of Chicago, passed away at the home of her only son, Bryan M. Parrott, November 29th, 1942, after a lingering illness.

Mrs. Parrott will be remembered by the older people of this vicinity as the only daughter of Edwin and Nannie Bryant Manning. Her brothers, Bates, Albert and Craig Ives died several years ago and one brother Stanley W. Manning of Monrovia, California, also a half-brother, Wm. S. Manning of New Orleans survive her.

Kate Manning was married in November 1890 to Will Parrott of Keokuk, Iowa, who died in 1904. Their only son, Bryant, together with his wife and one daughter, Marilyn, survive.

For years Mrs. Parrott made her home in Keosauqua with her mother, Nannie B. Manning, in the home which they built, now owned by Glenn Harbidge. It was a home in which all were most welcome, their friends always happy to go, and loth(sic) to leave. After selling her home here she made her home in Chicago with her son. The funeral service for Mrs. Parrott was conducted in a beautiful chapel of the Lane Funeral Home, recently built in Beverly Hills, Chicago, where several of her old Keosauqua friends and friends of her son’s family, gathered to say a last farewell to one they loved and held in the very highest esteem.

She was buried in Keokuk, Iowa, by the side of her husband, Wednesday morning, December 2.

Miss Stella Sloan, of Keosauqua attended the funeral services in Chicago and Keokuk and the former Keosauquans of Chicago attended the local service, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Brown and son, Merritt, Elsie King and Mark M. Baker.

Source: Scrapbook of Unknown Origin, page 81