DAY, Weltha Patience: Died 1942

DAY, JOHNS, SHORT, RANKIN, CLARK, BURNETT, BROWN, STEVENSON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 8/29/2014 at 07:54:55

**Handwritten: RE-Rep. 16 April 1942

WELTHA P. DAY

Weltha Patience, daughter of Benj. Oscar and Rhoda Johns Short was born on Short homestead near Kilbourne, and departed this life at her home in Glendale, Arizona, March 8, 1942. She attended the local school until going to the Birmingham Academy to prepare for her career in teaching.

She was one of Van Buren county's successful teachers, teaching the home school and in the nearby localities as well as Farmington and Douds.

She joined her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Rankin in the sunny west, where, after a few years she married and established her home. Here her sister, Ella Rhoda Short, came to make her home and the two sisters made their home together until Ella's death in Glendale, Arizona, in 1928.

After Mr. Day's death the two girls sold their ranch in southern Arizona and entered the business world in Lowell and Bisbee, Arizona. For over 20 years they were successful business women of the two cities and because of ill health they retired and chose to make their home in Glendale, Arizona, near their sister, Mrs. Robert Stevenson, and family.

Here their many friends came to love them very much and will greatly miss the happy, cheerful little neighbor.

In Sept., 1941, Mrs. Day suffered a stroke of paralysis. She fell in January, breaking her hip.

She was tenderly cared for by her nieces, Mrs. Chauncey D. Clark and Mrs. Helen Burnett, also Mrs. Brown, her nurse, and her many relatives, and friends did everything they could to make her suffering easier.

A short Christian Science service was conducted Tuesday p.m., March 10, by her friends, Mrs. Marquess and daughter.

Wednesday, March 11, Mrs. Day's body was taken to Los Angeles where Mrs. Clark met and placed her in her last earthly resting, Forest Lawn, with the sisters, Agnes S. Rankin and Ella R. Short.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book D, Page 98, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA