Clara E. (STRANAHAN) KILLINGSWORTH

STRANAHAN, KILLINGSWORTH, CHAMBERS, MCCALLUM

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/19/2011 at 00:00:32

Clarinda Herald Journal
Clarinda, Iowa
February 01, 1943

MRS. KILLINGSWORTH RITES WEDNESDAY

Wife of Pioneer Clarinda Doctor
Died at Home This Monday

Funeral services will be held at the home here Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 for Mrs. D. W. (sic, Daniel Harrison] KILLINGSWORTH, 81, wife of Dr. KILLINGSWORTH, pioneer Clarinda physician, who died this Monday morning at 1:15 following an illness of a week during which she suffered a heart ailment. Rev. Henry O. LIETMAN will be in charge of the services, burial planned in Clarinda cemetery.

Mrs. [Clara E. (STRANAHAN)] KILLINGSWORTH was born [July of 1861] at Mt. Ayr [the daughter of John and Eliza Jane (CHAMBERS) STRANAHAN], but for the past 45 years had made her home in Clarinda. She had been seriously ill for the past week.

Surviving are her husband and a daughter, Blanche, both of Clarinda, in addition to two brothers, W. E. STRANAHAN of Johnston, Colo., and a sister, Anna McCALLUM, of Baker, Oregon.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011