The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-18
many RELATIVES
attend FUNERAL
Final Services for Late Mrs 2. =.
Dorsey. Jr, Were Held From
Family Residence on
Friday.
POPULAR YOUNG MATRoN
Her Death Which Occurred From
Sudden Attack Of Heart Fail
ure. saddens Many
People.
POPULAR YOUNG MATRON

/ A number Of relatives of the Dor
| hey family have been in Keokuk
during the past week, called here by the
/ death and burial Of Mrs. Bertha
Wheeler Dorsey. wife Of DR.. F. B.
| Dorsey Jr., who passed away sudden
ly Wednesday.
Among those from out OF town
were Judge and Mrs. o. D. Wheeler
Of Council Bluffs; Miss Gertrude
| Wheeler Of Oberlin college, Oberlin,
o., Senator C. G. Saunders OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. May
1 bouer, of Mt Vernon, Iowa, Mrs. o.
/ N. Thompson and Miss Mary Thomp-
| son of Breckenridge, Mo-, Miss Adella
! Thompson of Gallatin, Mo-. and G. P.
/ and Miss Luella Dorsey OF Braymer.
| Mo.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorsey
were held Friday afternoon at the
/! family home, 712 Orleans avenue.
Many friends gathered at the resi-
| dence for the obseQuies, which were
conducted by Rev. Dr.. w. H. Neil,
4 pastor of Trinity M. E. church, and
DR.. C. S. Cooper of Agency, Iowa, a
valued and lifelong friend of the be
reaved family.
! Interment was made in the family
/ lot at Oakland cemetery.
! Mrs. Dorsey was among Keokuk's
popular young matrons. winning an
/ enviable place in the hearts OF many
| friends through her activities in
church and social life, including the
Country club and P. e. o., during Ter
! residence here of little more than
two years.
/ Council Bluffs was her native city
and her home until the summer OF
1912. Her parents. Judge Orville
Dewey Wheeler and Mrs. Helen Nc
iCune Wheeler were among the
prominent residents of that city. Her
birth was on March IL. 1889.
! Prominent IN University.
/ Miss Wheeler graduated from the
Council Bluffs high school in the
spring OF 1907 and the fall Of the
same year entered the collegiate de
partment of the University Of Iowa,
where for two years she took lead
ing place in class work and the sorori-
ties, being member Of the Univers-
/ ity chapter Of the Greek society, RI
Beta Phi.
A friendship formed while Miss
Wheeler and DR.. Dorsey were univer-
sity students-the latter in the medi-
cal Observation-Disclosures into love
! and reached happy elimination in
their marriage on June -6, 1912, at
/ the home Of Judge and Mrs. Wheeler
! in Council Bluffs.
Shortly after their marriage. DR..
and Mrs. Dorsey took up their resi-.
dence in Keokuk, building home at
! 709 Orleans avenue. On September
26, last they were blessed 10
the birth of a daughter, Helen
| Health attended the mother and
child and happiness was supreme in
| the family circle until October IA
when at about 1890 p. m. Mrs. Dor,
| sew was without warning, stricken
! with heart trouble while sitting In
her chair and almost instantly ex
PRED despite prompt attention OF
/ physicians and nurses, whose earn
est efforts to save her life were I'M
! availing.
Lifelong Church Member.
| During the greater part of her life
| Mrs. Dorsey was a member of the M
e. church with which she united in
/ early girlhood, holding membership
in Council Bluffs until she moved tc
Keokuk, since which time she has
been identified with the Trinity
church here, and the sweetness and
beauty of her christian life come tc
| the family in consolation at this
/ time, assuaging their sorrow in this
hour OF deep calamity in the assur
ance Of an eternity of peace into
which she has entered.
Mrs. Dorsey was woman OF rare
! charm and grace and her life was ar
inspiration and blessing to hel
friends, both in her recent and for
Emer home and their deep sorrow a
her death was attested by the man.
and beautiful floral offerings and thu
Kindly messages Of sympathy