Lydia Jane (Heck) PARR

PARR, HECK, MCINTIRE, MCINTYRE, BODINE, HOOVER, RICHARDSON, KINNEY, SWANSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/2/2013 at 23:01:07

December 11, 1838 --- December 8, 1904

Mrs. Lydia Jane Parr died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Louis McIntire near Goldfield, Thursday, Dec. 8, at 11:30 p.m., aged sixty years. She was sick but a few hours and died without suffering, her death being caused by a sudden stroke of paralysis. She was returning with her carriage from Renwick, where she had driven from Eagle Grove, and getting to Mr. McIntire's about dark, decided to remain overnight. She reached there about 5:30 and when walking from the buggy to the house discovered that her feet were without feeling. This condition rapidly extended over her body and at 11:20 her spirit had quietly passed to the beyond. A physician was immediately called and friends at Renwick and Eagle Grove summoned, but nothing could be done and but few of the friends arrived before her death.

Miss Lydia Jane Heck was born in Ohio in 1838, came to Iowa in 1840, and was married to Asa Parr in Cedar county, Iowa, in 1858. Four daughters were born to this union, one daughter dying at the age of three years. Those surviving her death are: Mrs. Jessie Bodine, of Eagle Grove; Mrs. A. B. Richardson, of Renwick; Mrs. A. L. Hoover of Des Moines.

Mr. and Mrs. Parr came to Eagle Grove immediately on the platting of the town and kept the first hotel in the city, the Junction House on Fifth street. Previous to this they had resided at Goldfield, Carroll and Webster City.

The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at the home of her niece where she died, and the burial was in the Goldfield cemetery.

Besides her children, two sisters, Joseph Kinney and Mrs. Ella Swansen and her husband Asa Parr, all of Eagle Grove, survive to mourn the sudden bereavement. All the near relatives were present, except a brother living in California.

The stricken relatives have the sympathy of all to their sad bereavement -- Eagle Grove Eagle

The Renwick Times - Renwick, Iowa
Reprinted from the Eagle Grove Eagle - Eagle Grove, Iowa
December 16, 1904