The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
LEADER OF WOMEN
ANSWERS SUDDEN CALL
Mrs. LOttie Chalfant Head is Stricken While at
Ceremonies and Dies Few Hours
Later at Her Home.
GAVE HER LIFE FOR SERVICE
Wife of Forr,er Mavor Had Reen a leader in Manv
HER LIFE FOR SER
Wife of Former Mayor Had Been Leader in Many
Activities of Women in the City and Sudden
Death is Shock to All.

Inc entire city was Shocked To-Day
with the announcement of the death of
Mrs. Lottie Chalfant Head, wife of for
mer Mayor Dan o. Head, who died at
the family home, 605 Prairie avenue,
at nine o'clock Wednesday night fol-
lowing an attack of cerebral hemor-
rhage.
Mrs. Head had been seemingly in eX-
cellent health on Wednesday morning
and the suddenness of the attack came
as great surprise to her friends and an
infinite sorrow to those who knew her
best.
Her emphasized leadership in the
work of the women in Kenosha
made her untimely death city-wide
sorrow and today the home on Prai-
RE avenue was thronged with people
who came to express their sorrow and
regret.
Stricken at Ceremonial.
Mrs. Head was regent OF, the Keno
sha chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and was to have
presided at the ceremonial of the un-
yelling of the tablet on the Main street
bridge. She had gone 70 the scene of
the ceremonies when she was stricken
with a severe pain in her head. Rec
ognizing that it was impossible for her
to continue her part in the<plans fora
| the afternoon she was taken to her
home by Mrs Z. L. Grant. Members
Of the family were hurriedly summon
ed to the family home and DR.. George
F. Adams was called. DR.. Adams later
called DR.. P. P. NJ. Jorgensen into con-
sultation. Mrs. Head remained con-
scious until five o'clock when she
! lapsed into stupor and death came at
nine o'clock. Her husband and daugh-
ters and her sons, George and Richard,
were at the bedside when she died and
the announcement of her death came
as terrible shock to them and to the
other sons, Randolph Head, who is a
student at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology at Boston, and Dan
| Grin Head, Jr, who is a student at
the University Of Wisconsin at Madi-
son.
A Native of Maryland.
Mrs. Head was a native of Sandy
Springs, Maryland, where she was born
November 29th, 1876. She was
daughter of the late Robert and Clara
Painter Chalfant, and a descendant of
one of the old Revolutionary families
of Maryland Her father died when
she was a9baby and later she lived in
Atlanta, Los Angeles and Pasadena.
She completed her education in the
California cities and in her young wo-
manhood she came with her mother
and her brother, Edward P. Chalfant,
now of New York, to Kenosha to make
her home. She had since lived in Ke-
nosha and had contributed probably
more than any other woman to the ad-
vancement of the work of women in
the city.
AS a girl she was great athlete
and she became the first woman golf
champion of the Kenosha Country
club. She was also an expert tennis
player and was much given to the out
door life.
Her marriage to Dan O. Head took
place on February 2, 1898, and since
their marriage Mr.. and Mrs. Head have
held commanding place in the social
life of Kenosha.
Gave Life to Service.
! Mrs. Head made the supreme sacri-
| flee in order to render service to 9TH
ers and the story of her life in Ke-
nosha is connected closely with the
development of the work of women in
the city. AS leader in this work she
has had part in every large movement
for the moral betterment of the city
and she found time in her busy
| life to be a gracious hostess and a
wonderful mother. Scores of women
of Kenosha today paid tribute to her
memory and to her contribution to
the work of women in Kenosha.
1t would be impossible to enumer-
ate all of the activities of Mrs. Head
for so much of her work was hidden
and known only to the people who
were most greatly benefited by her
bounty.
She had been one of the older mem
bers of the Kenosha chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
and had been most active in it's work
as regent of the chapter
| At a happy little luncheon with
members of her family on Wednesday
she had shown the great joy in pro-
noting the work of the organization
in the preservation of the interesting
history Of Kenosha and it's environ
ments.
Active in Hospital Work.
She was the "Little Mother" of the
Kenosha hospital member of the
board of directors of the institution
and president of the Woman's Auxil-
larry of the hospital board In recent
weeks she has had much to do with
the work of furnishing the new Nurs-
es' Home on Park avenue. She made
her work for the hospital personal
work and gave to it a decree of intel
| ligence which secured its success. At
the hospital today the nurses shed
tears as they told of their regard for
her and of her wonderful work in adj
vapcing the interests Of the institu-
ton.
4 She was active in the work of the
Woman's club of Kenosha, and she
found time from her other work to
give devoted service to many of the
! organizations connected with st.
/ Matthew's parish. She had served in
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