The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-02-06
MRS. MAHONEY BURIED
WITH MILITARY HONORS
FROM THE UNIVERSITY

Mrs. Edna Daniel Mahoney, nurse at
the Louisiana State University hos
pital for the current session, died Sun
| day night at 11:20 o'clock, after suffer
ing for ten days with an acute attack
of pneumonia. University exercises
were suspended Monday morning, and
the ca 1T battalion and band escorted
the body to the L. r. & NJ station,
whence it was conveyed on the 10
o'clock train to st. Francisyille, for
burial in the Star Hill cemetery. A
long procession of vehicles, containing
relatives and friends, escorted the
hearse from the station at St. Francis
vile to the cemetery, five miles distant.
Mrs. Mahoney fell Ill January 81,
while the hospital was crowded with
sick cadets, most of them affected with
grippe and pneumonia, whom she had
been faithfully attending. 1t is sup.
posed that she contracted the malady
while attending to her duty as nurse.
All possible efforts for her recovery
were taken in the matter of medical
attendance, and most careful attention.
Several of her immediate relatives,
brothers and sisters. were at the bed
side constantly-but all to no avail
Mrs. Mahoney was formerly Miss
Edna Daniel, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. s. Daniel of Elm Park, La. Her
husband, H. Mahoney, died in 1905, and
she is survived by two children, Ewell
and Willis, boys aged respectively is
and 10 years. Both her father and
mother are living, and she is also sur
vived by three brothers and six sisters,
all of West Feliciana parish. These
are Messrs. Billy, Joe and Jesse
Daniel, Mrs. Clint Simmons, Misses
Sallie, Alice, Ella, Eva and Lucille
Daniel.
Mrs. Mahoney graduated from the
PresbyterianTrainin School for nurses
in New Orleans in 1913, and began
work at the University hospital on
September Is, 1914. Through her I'M
failing fidelity to duty in the care Of
the sick who came under her attention,
she early won their highest esteem, as
well as that of the authorities of the
institution. Her death is sincerely re-
GREETED and mourned by the University
folk, as distinct loss to the institution.
By order of President Boyd, classes
for Monday forenoon were suspended,
and the battalion and band directed to
escort the remains to the L. r. & N.
station. The battalion and band were
tmarshaled in line in front of the hos
pital on Third street at 9 o'clock,
and the rites of a military funeral were
|observed. An escort of two cadets &C.
companied the body to st. Francisville.
A large concourse of people from the
surrounding neighborhoods joined the
funeral procession at Star Hill, the
Daniel family being large, well-known
and highly esteemed one in this COM
munity. The services were conducted
by Rev. D. Roberts, assisted by Rev.
Is. L. Riggs. Among the many beauti.
full flowers, were these sent by the
classmates of her son Ewell at Julius
Freyhan high school.
Mrs. Mahoney was 80 years Of age
and was woman of great natural
ability, which her training and expert
ence had brought out fully, producing
one of the best types of womanhood:
nurse consecrated to her calling. Her
life was bound up in her family and
the future of her young sons. She
took the position at L. s. U. with g
view of making herself indispensable
there, and so having her sons with hel
later at the university. She died from
devotion to duty, and her death is az
truly heroic as that of the soldier who
lays down his life for his country or
the battlefield Her immortal self has
doubtless heard already the welcome
of the Master of all: "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant, enter thol
into the JOY of thy Lord"