Obituary of
Henrietta Carson
November 1946
Miss Henrietta Carson, who
made her home in Monmouth with Mrs. Frank McCray, 717 West Archer avenue, passed
away Friday evening at 5:40 o’clock, at Monmouth hospital where she was taken
after suffering a heart attack Thursday morning.
Miss Carson suffered the
attack just after breakfast Thursday and was taken at once to the hospital but
failed to respond to treatment and her death occurred there yesterday
evening. She became aware of the heart
ailment a year ago but had been in her usual health through the summer and
fall.
Born in Rossville, Ind., she
was the daughter of Robert Carson and Amanda (McCorkhill) Carson and was one of
a family of seven children but was the last surviving member of her immediate
family as her parents, three brothers and three sisters had preceded her in
death.
She lived as a youth in
Indiana but then moved to Denver, Colo., with the rest of the family. She attended Denver University and later
graduated from Greeley State college, Greeley, Colo., and became a
teacher. Practically all of her teaching
experience, extending over a period of more than 30 years, was in Canon City,
Colo. She taught in the primary grade
for some years and then became an English teacher in the junior high school.
Mrs. McCray and Miss Carson became close friends in 1919,
when both were teaching in Canon City. (
Mrs. McCray was a music teacher there at that time), and upon her retirement
from teaching in 1942, Miss Carson came to Monmouth to make her home with Mrs.
McCray. Fond of children as a teacher,
she had enjoyed the friendship of many children with whom she became acquainted
after coming here.
In the west she was a member
of the American Association of University Women, and at Monmouth she belonged
to the Woman’s club and the Garden club.
She was a member of the Episcopal church and served as treasurer of
Trinity Guild in which she took an active interest.
Funeral services will be
held at the Turnbull Funeral Home Monday morning at 10 o’clock in charge of the
Rev. J. W. McCullough, of Galesburg, vicar of Trinity church here. Burial will be in Monmouth cemetery.