Obit: Brasure, Rhoda G. (1874 - 1933)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Surnames: BRASURE DRAKE CATLIN DARTON

----Sources: The Loyal Tribune 31 August 1933

Brasure, Rhoda G. (1874 - 7 AUG 1933)

Mrs. Rhoda Grace Darton Brasure of South Main Road, Rockford, Ill., passed away at 8:40 a.m., Aug. 7, 1933 of pneumonia and complications.

Mrs. Brasure was born at Loyal Wis., 1874. She was a highly esteemed teacher during her girlhood days in the schools of Clark county, and was married to Eugene C, Brasure of Sheboygan, a conductor on the St. Paul and Milwaukee road thirty eight years ago, after which they made their home at various places until twenty-six years ago they moved to Davis Junction, Ill., and then to Rockford where they resided ever since.

Mrs. Brasure was a member of the Second Congregational Church.

Their only child, a son, Neal, passed away at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in 1918 of Flu, 21 years old. Besides her husband, she leaves her father Albert Darton of Loyal, Wis., a sister Mrs. Nellie Catlin, of Spencer, Wis., a nephew A. G. Drake, Loyal, Wis., and other relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Catlin and Mr. Darton came last night to be with Mrs. Brasure. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Wm. Newing of Pewaukee, a brother-in-law of Mr. Brasure, in the absence of Dr. Gordon, pastor of the Second Cong. Church.

Relatives from away who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brasure, Plymouth, Wis., Mr. Howard Brasure and daughter Ruth, Sheboygan, Wis., Rev. and Mrs. Newing, Pewaukee, Wis., Mr. Albert Darton, Loyal, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Catlin, Spencer, Wis., and Mr. and Mrs. Felix Niehoff, Wausau, Wis.

---- The Rockford Morning Star.