After a lingering illness, death came quietly to Mrs. John Janson about 9 o'clock in the morning of October 15 at the Ashland hospital. All that was possible had been done to prolong her life but God saw fit to call her from her suffering.Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at the Methodist church with the pastor Rev. White in charge, assisted by Rev. Pitman of the Baptist church.
The Methodist male quartet composed of Delmar, Ray Bigbee, Roderick and Nick Baker sang "Rock of Ages," "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Going Down The Valley" with Mrs. Nick Baker, accompanist.
C. O. Masterson, A. V. Bigbee, Geo. Kennedy, M. E. Jordan, Ernest Hubbard and L. E. Baker acted as pall bearers.
The bereaved relatives have the sympathy of many friends.
Interment was made in the Wilmore Cemetery.
Obituary: Lula Nelson Janson. Lula Janson was born in Poland, Clay County, Indiana on June 29, 1870 and died at the Ashland Hospital at Ashland, Kansas on October 15, 1941, after a several months illness, at the age of 71 years, 3 months and 16 days.
In the year 1877 she moved with her parents, John and Elizabeth Nelson, to Independence, Kansas. Here her parents preceded her in death and after attending college at Emporia, Kansas, she came to Comanche County in the year 1905. In 1909 at Coldwater, Kansas she was united in marriage to John Janson, and since that time has resided in the vicinities of Coldwater and Wilmore where she has made many friends and acquaintances. She was a kind and helpful neighbor and always found time to be a friend in need.
Mrs. Janson became a member of the M. E. Church at Emporia, Kansas in 1892 and since her residence in Wilmore she has been a faithful and loyal member of the Wilmore Methodist Church. A good bible student and an ardent Christian worker, she will be greatly missed in every department in the Church and Sunday School as well as by her many neighbors and friends.
Besides her husband, John Janson, she leaves the following relatives: a daughter, Kathryn Puckett of Montrose, Colo.; two sons, Albert Seaman of Hutchinson, Kans. and Bernarr Seaman of Wilmore, Kansas; one brother, John Nelson of Modoc, Kans.; one sister, Floy Woollomes of Bakersfield, Calif.; 7 grandchildren and a host of friends.
John Janson, Jr., husband of Lula Nelson Janson.
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