Evaline Elizabeth “Eva” (McKowan) Welch (1855-1909)

MCKOWAN, WELCH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/21/2025 at 22:20:06

From Jewell Record September 16, 1909 (page 1)

Mrs. D. C. Welch Is Dead.

Mrs. D. C. Welch, until but very recently of Jewell, is dead. Mrs. Welch had for a long time been in very poor health, but gaining strength, had gone to Minneapolis where she spent two months recuperating. When the Welch family removed to Ames, Mrs. Welch went directly to their new home from Minneapolis and in a short time again became very sick.

On Monday of last week she was taken to a hospital in Des Moines and on Wednesday was operated on for gall stones. Saturday morning death came. Her daughter, Miss Maude Welch, who teaches in the Jewell schools, left Thursday afternoon to be with her mother, her place in the schools being taken temporarily by Miss Lillian Olson.

Before dying Mrs. Welch had made the request that she be buried beside the members of her family in the cemetery at Webster City, and in deference to her expressed wish the body was taken to Webster City for interment Tuesday. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. L. N. Call, pastor of that church.

Mrs. Welch with her husband and family lived in Jewell for about five years and in that time made hosts of loyal friends who sincerely mourn her departure from life and who sympathize with the grief stricken family. She was always an active, faithful, and untiring worker in the church, and was one of the most loyal members of the Congregational church. The husband and children who survive her all have the sincere sympathy of every on in Jewell and vicinity in the great bereavement that has come to them.