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Note N4156
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:Retta May Mays -- ATWOOD -- Retta May Mays, 94, Atwood, died Thursday, March 14, 1996, at the Community Hospital, McCook, Neb. Mrs. Mays was born Retta May Denny on Sept. 26, 1901, in Barrett Township, Thomas County, and was a resident of the Good Samaritan Center since 1991. She was a resident of California for 40 years and about two years at Lebanon, Mo., before returning to Rawlins County, worked for Westinghouse Manufacturing at Sunnyvale, Caokf., and was a homemaker. She was a former member of Stevens Chapel of Rawlins County and a member of Mission Covenant Church in California.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl, in 1976 and a son, Clifford M., in May 1995. Survivors include a daughter, Blanche Charlene Ballard of Lakewood, Colo.; and four grandchildrne.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. today at Brantley Funeral Chapel, Atwood, the Rev. Kirk Smethers officiating. Burial will be in Atwood Fairview Cemetery.
Memorials may e made to Atwood Good Samaritan Center. Visitation will be after 9 a.m. today at the funeral home, 215 S. Fourth, Atwood, 67730."--16 Mar 1996, The Salina (KS) Journal
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Note N4157
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Alternate birthplace is Virginia, per Find-a-grave
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Note N4158
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Alternate birthplace is Iowa, per Find-a-grave
"Remains of Mrs. Antone Korb to Be Taken Up and Removed to California
Mrs. F. E. Leebrick, of McDonald, Kan., a former resident of Osborne, sends us the following interesting item: As soon as the roads are passable the remains of Mrs. Antone Korb will be removed from the Adventists' cemetery at Alton, Kan., and shipped to Los Angeles, Cal., where they will be cremated and the ashes sealed in a solid brass box, then again sealed in a white enameled urn, then placed on a three-foot pedestal of white enamel in the center of the grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Baum's beautiful home, called "Monta Rosa." Mrs. Baum is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Korb. Old settlers of Osborne county will remember her as Rosie Korb. Most of the Korb family now live at Los Angeles: Mrs. Ed Bryson, Mrs. J. Baum and Mrs. Dr. Kirkpatrick nee Minnie Korb. Mr. Korb is now 82 years old and hale, hearty and happy and makes his home with his daughters. Mrs. Baum and her brother, H. L. Korb of Hoxie, visited the lonely resting place of their dear mother last fall and decided then and there to have her remains removed. H. L. Korb will superintend the removal this fall.--Osborne Farmer."
Source:
The Hoxie Sentinel
04 April 1912, Thursday
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The above, H. L. Korb says, is essentially true, only the remains will not be cremated nor taken to Los Angeles, but instead will be brought to Hoxie for burial in the Korb lot in the Hoxie cemetery.
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"OBITUARY. DIED.--In Alton, Kansas, at the residence of F.E. Leebrick, on Wednesday, Sept. 1st, 1886, at 12:40 a.m., Mrs. Samantha Ann Korb, aged 49 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs. Korb was born in Knox county, Illinois, in 1837, her parents moving to Iowa when she was quite young, and that State new and unsettled. She was married to Anton Julius Korb, who survives her, in Washington county Iowa, on June 28th, 1855. He with his wife and family came to Osborne county and homesteaded their farm just west of here in the fall of 1870, when this country was held by the Indians and buffalo. Her husband and six children, three boys and three girls, are left to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate wife and an indulgent mother. One of the sons and two of the daughters are married. She had two brothers and three sisters. One brother was killed in the late war and the present location of the other is unknown. Of her sisters, Mrs. Carrie Smith lives in Southern Kansas, Mrs. Jennie Neff is in Iowa, and Mrs. F.E. Leebrick resides in Alton. Her death was very sudden and unexpected, as her health has always been exceptionally good. She left her home on Friday morning with her husband to attend the camp meeting at Osborne, and was taken with a pain in the stomach the following Sunday. She went to the drug store and procured medicine, but getting no relief, Dr. Hall was called, and on Monday she was brought to her sister's here in Alton. Dr. Hall was again called who took Drs. Whitnall and Rhodes into consultation, but to no purpose. Death, the leveler of all earthly hops and ambitions, had marked her for its own. The funeral was preached by M. Enoch from the church in Alton at 10 a.m. on Friday, after which her remains were interred in the Advent cemetery northwest of town. Absent relatives were telegraphed, but the youngest boy Steve, who was a Cawker City, was the only one that got word in time to come. Her sudden death was a painful shock to her husband, children and friends, and cast a pall of grief over the entire community. She had a strange presentiment from the first that she would not get well, and seemed to want to hide the fact from her children. She was a member of no church, but had led an upright, useful life, ever ready to lend a helping hand to assist others along the rough ways of life, and while surrounded by her little family and friends at her death-bed, she was asked if she felt prepared to cross the river of death, and she replied that she was. What a testimonial of an upright life. Her peace made with God, death had no sting, and the grave was robbed of its terrors. What a comfort those last words must be to her grief-stricken husband, children and friends It is hard to part with a mother, a wife, a sister--but when we remember the unfaltering uprightness of a noble life well spent, ever following where duty led, the assurance that all was well, and that she was ready for death--when we look back on all this what a load of pain and grief it lifts from our hearts. She has lived a noble life, she has fought a good fight and she was ready. To those that mourn all unite in sympathy. Her course is run. Let her rest."--4 Sep 1886, The Alton (KS) Empire