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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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McDowell, Sarah Letitia "Lettie" MRS C C McDOWELL DEAD
Mrs. Lettie McDowell, wife of C. C. McDowell, died at Lawrence Monday afternoon at 1:30 according to word received here by relatives, death resulting from heart trouble.
The McDowells who lived in Chase county for nearly fifty years located in Lawrence nearly a year ago where they lived with their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Harman, and family.
The deceased is survived by her husband and daughter at Lawrence, also one son, Charles McDowell, of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The remains will be brought to this city and the funeral will be held at 3:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the residence of W. W. Sanders after which internment will be made in Prairie grove Cemetery at this place.
MRS SARA LETITIA McDOWELL
Sarah Letitia Sheehan was born at Vienna, Ohio, August 25th. 1861. She came to Kansas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Sheehan, when she was a girl.
She was married December 12th 1879 to Charles C. McDowell. Since that time she has lived at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, until November, 1924, when she moved with her husband, together with her daughter and family to Lawrence, Kansas, where she lived until her death, September 14th., 1925.
She leaves her husband, Charles. C. McDowell, her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Harman, two granddaughters, Helen and Nancy Harman, all of Lawrence, Kansas; her son, Charles W. McDowell, of Rock Springs, Wyoming; two sisters, Mrs. T. Postle of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. L. Botkin of Centralia, Missouri; one brother, William Sheehan, of Columbus, Ohio.
As a girl she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After her marriage she became a member, with her husband, of the United Presbyterian Church. Later, with her family, she united with the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death.
Mrs.. Lettie McDowell was one of the outstanding women of Chase county. She had a world of friends because she took an active interest in people. Sometimes she was exacting of her friends but that seemed the more to bind them to her. She was one of those motherly souls who invite confidences. She had a way of saying: "0, well! dont you get too worried about that, it will come out all right" so that trouble would lose half its weight.
She was always taking an interest in those in need, whether it was in need of something to eat and wear or a need of comforting. While she heard much of other people's griefs, it did not seem to weigh her down. It seemed to be a normal condition with her. She would not have you get too hilarious in your joys nor too deep in your despond; she was an equalizer of human feelings. There are few of her kind and they are always the most missed when they are gone.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Sep 22 1925.
by Lorna Marvin
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