Mary Bernard
Born: January 25th, 1859
Died: November 16th, 1919
Obituary
Mrs. John Bernard went to her reward at the family home, 920 North Eighth Street, at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, after an illness of four weeks.
The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, from the family home. Friends are invited to these services. The interment will be private.
Mary Crites was a native of this county, born near Kingston, January 25, 1859, and had made the city or the county her home all her days. Her parents, Benjamin F. and Priscilla McIntyre Crites were early settlers of Benton township.
Mary Crites was married to John Bernard, April 6, 1878, and he survives her with two daughters, Mrs. Olive B. Trook, of Marion, Ind., and Miss Dorothy at home; a son, Captain Frank C. Bernard, formerly of the US Army; two grandsons, a sister, Mrs. Ellen Cooper of Glen Elder, Kansas, and two brothers, Ellis Crites, of Glen Elder, Kansas, and Manford Crites of Portland, Texas. A daughter, Josephine passed away as a child.
After her home, Mrs. Bernard was interested primarily in charitable and religious work, in doing good to others. She was an active member of the Alert and Congregational circles of the King’s Daughters, the P. S. C., and never wearied of good works. In a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, Mrs. Bernard will be missed indeed.