Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-03-23
THE PASSING OF
MISS anna H. MCKEE
Had Been III for Nearly Three Years
Recently Taken to Mercy
Hospital.


for the past three years. The silent
messenger came so quietly that no
one was disturbed or knew that she
had gone until few minutes after
the end came. Three years ago April
10th, she sustained paralytlc
stroke which left one hand and arm
practically useless and one limb was
also partially paralyzed. After three
or four months she was able to be
up and about with the aid of her
cane, but has been partial invalid
until about two weeks ago, when she
began to fail rapidly. She was re-
moved to Mercy hospital Sunday
where she remained until the end.
Miss Mckee was the eldest OF a
family of three children and was
born May 81, 1859, in Chandlerville,
III. In 1865 she came with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mckee, to this
city, where she has made her home
ever since. Her education was re-
ceived in the schools of this city and
at Grinnell College, where she re-
ceived especial training for teaching,
for which she had an unusual gift.
She was actively teacher for fif-
teen or sixteen years, both before
and after the work in Grinnell, hav-
ing taught most successfully in this
city and in the country schools. Her
work in the city schools was over a
wide range and she was a grade
teacher, as we'll as an efficient men,
Der of the high school faculty at var
ious times. She was especially gift
ter her active work in the schools
closed, was widely known as a most
proficient tutor and was rarely with
out two or three private pupils. Many
high school students of the past will
recall the help she extended to them
after school hours in wrestling with
knotty problems in any branch of
mathematics. Miss Mckee was
member of the first high school fac
ulty which taught in the old central
school building just after it was
built.
Miss Mckee had been a member of
the Congregational church of this
city since early girlhood and was in
tensely interested in every depart
ment of church work. She was fore
most in the work of the Sunday
school, where she had taught, up to
the time of her illness, for about
thirty-five years. She possessed a
keen mind and had the rare ability
of imparting knowledge to others
and made a wonderfully successful
Sunday school teacher. In the work
of the Christian Endeavor she was
one of the charter workers, but in
missions her interest was warmest.
Her mother before her was always
especially interested in missions and
from the cradle she was familiar
with this work.
For many years Miss Mckee held
the position of superintendent of the
juvenile work in foreign missions.
She lectured along this line over the
70 Ifnp fiot, of
church conventions and mission con-
ferences, where she always had
something worth while to present to
her audiences Miss Mckee was an
encyclopedia of missions to the men,
bers of the society in the Congrega
tional church, a most versatile talk
err and deep thinker.
In things literary she was always
interested and was an inveterate
reader. Only few months ago she
showed the writer a wonderful col
lection of quotations which she had
compiled and tabulated during her
illness of the past three years. These
were arranged in departments, bear
ing upon any and all subjects, and
had they been published would have
proved as fine a reference book Of
quotations as may be found. Her
fingers, as well as her mind, were
never idle, and she led busy, active
life until her death, always regret
ing in her later days that she could
not be more active. In all her rela
tions she will be sincerely missed,
although her release from the bond
age of pain is a matter of rejoicing,
rather than regret, from relatives
and friends.
Her father and mother passed
away about fifteen years ago, within
a few months of each other, and
there are left of the family only the
two brothers, H. B. and F. o. Mckee,
hc,h OF This city
The funeral services were held
from the H. B. Mckee home on Mon
day afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, the