The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-07-29
Mrs. J. f. Rounds
Dies at White
Bear Thursday
PRESIDENT OF MINNESOTA FED
GRATED CLUBS DIES AFTER
EIGHTEEN MONTHS ILLNESS;
BURIAL SERVICE SATURDAY.

IL. Leona Rounds, wife of j. E..
Rounds of st. Paul and president of
the Minnesota Federation of Women's s
Clubs, died Thursday at her summer
home at White Bear Lake, after an
illness of Is months. Mrs. Rounds
was 65 years old.
She became. i'll year ago last Feb
ruary, but insisted on keeping on
with her strenuous club work.
At the convention of the state fed
Grafton last September in Excelsior,
through three damp, cold days, she
worked night and day. immediately
afterward, she became seriously i'll
with neuritis.
Early this year. it became appar-
ent that she would not recover her
health and her duties in the fedora
tion were taken over by Mrs. Bess
Wilson of Redwood Falls, first vice
president. Mrs. Rounds health had
been failing rapidly ever since JAN
uary.
Mrs. Rounds carried all through
her club work a deep interest in
schools and belief that mothers
clubs are a real factor in the COM
munity. Only since her three child
ren were grown up had she given so
much of her time to club work.
She took a deep interest in legisla-
tion concerning women and children
and spent much time working for her
city's welfare and for that of Ham,
line, the community where she has
lived ever since coming to st. Paul
Mrs. Po,roIc fnr fo,,r xyoore v,,,oc;
dent of the Minnesota Federation of
Women's Clubs, leader of near $4,000
federated clubwomen, was one of the
best known and most admired club
women in the state.
Under her leadership, Minnesota
club women prosecuted a vigorous
campaign to make Minnesota a liter
ate state, put the emphasis of fed
Grated work upon the home and i'm
provement of the home, and carried
on an extensive Indian welfare pro-
gram.
Mrs. Rounds was born in Boston
in 1860, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Grafton Sanger. both of
New England stock. She came to
St. Paul in 1888, after teaching school
in Massachusetts for several years.
In 1886 at Atlanta, Ca, she was
married to Jean E. Rounds, now vice
president of Foot, Schultz & Co., Of
st. Paul. For many years, Mrs
Rounds was active in Sunday school
and missionary work in Knox Pres
byterlan church, was treasurer of the
Synodical Home Missionary Society
of Minnesota, and served on the ad-
visory school board under the COM
mission form of government in st.
Paul. Mrs. Rounds was appointed by
former Governor j. A. 0. Preus as
4 member of the citizens educational
conference at Des Moines, Iowa.
Through the Hamline Mothers Club,
of which she was president, Mrs.
Rounds became interested in fedora
ton club work. Before becoming pres
ident of the state federation she
served as president Of the fourth
district Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Rounds served for several
years on the gymnasium committee
of the Y. w. c. A, and was a member
of the Order of the Eastern Star, Wo-
mans Relief corps and Woman 5
Christian Temperance Union. She
was on the board of the Ramsey
County Sunday School Association
and the board of Welcome Hall.
She was appointed by Governor
Preus to attend the illteracy confer
ence in Washington in 1924 and had
attended many national meetings of
federated clubs.
Indian welfare work always was
close to her heart. Under her lead
ership club women all over the stare
helped maintain two nurses among
the Indians in Minnesota, and helped
supply them with relief through the
winters. Because of her interest in
the Indians she was lovingly called
the big Chief" by thousands of wo-
men throughout the state.
At the last midwinter meeting IF
the state federation $1,000 music
scholarship was given in honor Of
Mrs. Rounds by Mrs. j. C. Whitacre
OF St Paul. A farewell note from
MRS. Rounds was read to the women
and high tribute paid her by speak
ers. The scholarship will be known
as the M. Leona Rounds scholarship.
Surviving relatives are her hus-
band, two sons, John L. Rounds. Judge
OF the Cancellation Court in St. Paul
and Fred G. Rounds, Pullman, Wash:
one daughter, Miss Jean E. Rounds
OF St. Paul; three granddaughters
and one grandson; her mother, one
brother and one sister.
Burial service was held at the
Knox Presbyterian Church Saturday
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.
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