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- Injuries Are Fatal To Mrs. Hugh Mathews
Mrs. Hugh Mathews passes away Saturday, Nov. 11, at Copley Memorial Hospital, Aurora, Ill, where she had been a patient since Oct. 7th.
On that day the Mathews family was in an automobile accident near Aurora in which both Mr. and Mrs. Mathews were injure and taken to the hospital, where her death occurred. She had suffered fractures in both legs and other injuries.
Mildred Lucille, daughter of Elizabeth (Gilyeart) and William Schenk, was born near Crawfordsville, July 18, 1912. She was married Aug. 7th, 1930, at Waterloo to Hugh D. Mathews.
Mrs. Mathews was a member of the Methodist church and the Prairie Queen club. Besides her husband she leaves one daughter, Margaret, a student at Iowa Wesleyan College, and one son, John, 8th grade student at the Mt. Union school.
She also leaves her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Schenk of New London, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Florence Totemeyer, Mrs. Edna Crocker, Ralph Schenk, all of Mt. Union, Mrs. Myrtle Jones of Salem and Carl Schenk of Winfield.
A brother, Ray Schenk, passed away in February of this year.
The body will be brought to the Elliott Funeral Chapel at New London this evening. The services will be held Wednesday afternoon at Trinity church with burial in Trinity cemetery.
The Mount Pleasant News, Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Monday, 13 November 1950.
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