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Obituary

At her home in Davenport at one o'clock Tuesday morning occurred the death of Mrs. Loraida E.Calkins, who for so many years and until last August made her home in Burlington. The Davenport Democrat, on which paper Mr. Jason E. Calkins, son of the deceased, holds the position of city editor, gives the following particulars of her sickness and death with a biographical sketch: "Mrs. Loraida Eunice Calkins, mother of J.E. Calkins of this city, passed from earth shortly after midnight last night, after an illness extending over several months but which had assumed its serious phases only during the past fortnight. The deceased came from Burlington to make her home with her son on August 10. The unfailing good health that she had known all her life had deserted her some time previously, but with characteristic patience and fortitude she had borne up under a fever that was slowly sapping her strength. Some days ago came th collapse that had been feared, accompanied by complications that left little hope of her recovery. The end, which was not unexpected, was nevertheless a grievous blow to the son and relatives of the deceased, who was endeared to them by long years of companionship in which her quiet domestic virtues and nobility of character had marked her as a worthy type of the American wife and mother. "Mrs. Calkins was in her 71st year. She was born February, 20, 1830, in New Haven, Ohio, and came to Iowa with her father, Joab Comstock, in 1839. They took the river route via Cincinnati, and settled near Burlington, the father taking up a farm. There was married November 20, 1860, her husband E.H. Calkins, dying in Burlington in 1892. There Mrs. Calkins made her home until she came here in August. "The deceased was a member of the Methodist church and while very retiring and unostentatious by nature, her good deds had not all been confined to her home circle, and many will remember and mourn her in the neighborhood in which nearly her whole life was spent. She is survived only by the son, at whose home, 808 East Tenth street, she breathed her last." The funeral will be private and will be held from deceased's late home, No. 1210 South Fourteenth street, at 2 p.m. Thursday. The remains will arrive at 10:30 tomorrow and can be viewed at the residence by the intimate friends from 11 a.m. until the funeral hour. Mrs. Calkins was a consistent member of the First M.E. church of this city and its pastor, Dr. R. F. Hurlburt, will conduct the services.