Leila (Blanchard) HARR

BLANCHARD, HARR, MCGAUGHEY, VINSEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/12/2010 at 16:49:41

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
October 19, 1905

The many friends in this county will be grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. Leila Blanchard Harr, wife of J. L. Harr of Klemme, Iowa, which occurred at the hospital in Dubuque on Sunday night, October 15, 1905, after an illness of several months with Bright's disease of her kidneys. The remains were brought to the home of her parents in this city on Tuesday morning and yesterday afternoon at two o'clock largely attended funeral services conducted by Rev. McGaughey of Russell were held at the Presbyterian Church. The floral offerings were profuse and beautiful, coming from sympathetic hearts, and bore testimony to the high regard in which deceased was held. At the close of the services the remains were interred in the Chariton Cemetery, her brothers acting as pall bearers.

Leila Blanchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Blanchard, was born in Ainsworth, this State, on April 27, 1866. When quite young she moved with her parents to this county, the family locating on a farm near Russell. She attended the schools in this city and for some time was one of our most successful teachers. She was also a student at the State Agricultural College at Ames for three years. On June 7, 1892 she was united in marriage to J. L. [John L.] Harr of Klemme who survives her. They were the parents of two children, Wayne and Mildred, who with the husband were the objects of her special devotion.

When quite young she united with the Presbyterian Church and she has since been a true Christian, who was the living exemplification of her faith, her hope, her trust. She possessed a pleasant disposition and to know her was to love her. Her death will be widely mourned and she will be missed from the place that was well and nobly filled by one of the best, the truest, the tenderest of women. Besides her husband and children she leaves her parents, also five brothers, Stillman of Chicago, Ed and Will of Rapid City, South Dakota, Harry of this city, George of Russell, and two sisters, Mrs. J. A. Vinsel of Russell and Miss Frances of this city. To all these sorrowing relatives the deepest sympathy of a host of friends is extended.