Mrs. Louise H. Hedrick Dead.

The people of Olathe were shocked last Saturday to learn of the death of Mrs. Louise H. Hedrick, wife of Mr. D. M. Hedrick, at her home in Walker, Mo. She had been an invalid for several months but was thought to be much improved, when death resulted very suddenly from internal hemorrhage resulting from cancer of the stomach. She was brought to Olathe for interment last Sunday.

 

Mrs. Hedrick was a beautiful woman at the age of sixty-four years and was affectionately regarded by everyone. She had been very active all her life. In youth she became a teacher and took care of and supported the children of the late Mother Bickerdyke, a woman revered by all soldiers of the civil war for her ministrations as a nurse.

 

Mrs. Hedrick's father was Dr. Benjamin Woodward, long a citizen of Olathe and now resting beside his wife in Olathe cemetery. Mrs. Louise Hedrick was very active in church and other society work. She was for years a member of the official board of the M. E. church and of the ladies aid society. She was the first president of the Women's Relief Corps of Kansas and represented Kansas at the national meeting in San Francisco. She was the first president of the Olathe Women's Relief Corps.

 

She was a grand good woman, and the bereaved husband has the sympathy of all who have known them.

 

Olathe Mirror

May 8, 1902

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