The Sterling Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

December 21, 1948 - Tuesday, pg. 2, col. 2

 

 

FRANCIS LEONA (Given) DORATHY

Mrs. John Dorathy, 59, Dies Monday in Hospital

 

Mrs. John Dorathy, 59, passed away at 11:30 p.m. in the Moline public hospital, where she had been a patient for the last four weeks.  Her body was taken to the Gardner mortuary in Prophetstown and will be returned to the home late Wednesday.

 

Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church, Rev. C. F. Chasteen officating.  The committal will be in Riverside cemetery.

 

Mrs. Dorathy was born Francis Leona Given, Aug. 2, 1889, daughter of Samuel C. and Ida A. Showalter Given, in Fenton township.  She was reared and educated in Fenton township and was granduated from the Prophetstown high school.  She also attended the Northern Illinois State Teachers' college.

 

On April 12, 1912 she was married to John Dorathy of Prophetstown at Morrison, who survives together with three sons, Arlyn, Robert and Howard, of Prophetstown;  and five sisters, Mrs. Pearl Keller of Morrisoin, Mrs. Ivy Stewart of Coleta, Mrs. Winnie Ross, Mrs. Beulah Black and Mrs. Avis Clark, all of Fenton.  There are three grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother and sister in infancy.

 

She taught eight years in the Hume and Portland schools.  She was a member of the Methodist church and various church organizations;  a member of Minerva chapter, OES, the RNA, the WRC and the Fidelity Life Association.