Dorothy Banks Iddings (1906-1926)
 5th grade, 1917/18 |
 1922 LHS freshman class |
 1922 Skyrocket staff -- fall |
 1922 Skyrocket staff -- spring |
 1923 LHS sophomore class |
 1923 LHS Itaretil Club |
 1923 LHS Skyrocket staff -- spring |
The following December 30, 1926, Lowell Tribune article appeared on page 1, column 2:
YOUNG LADY CALLED
MISS DOROTHY IDDINGS PASSES AWAY FROM HEART ATTACK.
The people of this section were greatly shocked Tuesday evening when it was learned that Miss Dorothy, oldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Iddings, had passed away very suddenly from heart trouble. Several weeks, while attending college at Rockford, Ill., she had an attack of pneumonia, and when she was able was brought to her home here. She developed heart trouble, but was getting along nicely and there was every evidence that she would soon fully recover. Late Tuesday afternoon she had a coughing [fit] and in a few moments she had passed away.The young lady had a host of friends, not only in her home town, but over the entire county, and her death came as a great shock to them.
Her parents, sisters and brother have the sympathy of the entire community in their great sorrow.
Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow, Friday, at 2 p.m.
This January 6, 1927, Lowell Tribune obituary appeared on page 1, column 2:
- Dorothy Banks Iddings was born in Grant Park, Ill., December 8, 1906, and died at her home December 28, 1926, at the age of twenty years and twenty days.
She was the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Iddings, who with four other children, Ruth, Jean, John and Janet, are left to mourn her untimely departure.
Lowell has been her home nearly all her entire life time, having moved here with her parents when only eight weeks old. Here she received her elementary education, attended Sunday school and church, and played a leading role in the social activities of the community, especially those pertaining to High school and church functions, thereby gathering to herself a large group of admiring friends, across whose lives her death has cast a shadow of relentless sorrow.
Dorothy was a good girl, kind and sympathetic, and easily won the admiration of all who knew her. She was baptized into the Methodist Episcopal church under the ministry of Rev. Voris B. Servies, when quite a young girl, and we have good reason to believe that she has exchanged her good home and pleasant surroundings for the more ideal and perfect, in the Eternal City of Many Mansions.
She was a graduate of Lowell High school, class of 1925, and after her graduation from this institution where she enjoyed unusual class and social distinction, she matriculated in the Rockford College for girls at Rockford, Illinois, being a popular leader of the sophomore class at the time of her death.
The high esteem and tender regard of the entire faculty and student body is evidenced in the following telegram, sent in condolence and signed by the president representing the entire college of teachers and students.
- Rockford, Illinois.
Dr. John W. Iddings.
We all enter very fully and sympathetically into your loss, for few students were better known and more universally loved than was Dorothy. She was the embodiment of spirit of youth -- friendliness was felt throughout the college. Even as a freshman we recognized the essential sweetness and soundness of her character. We feel with you.
Wm. A. Maddas,
President of Rockford College.
Funeral services were held at the home at 2 p.m. Friday. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A.E. Dougherty, pastor of the Lowell M.E. church. Miss Pitcher, of Hobart, rendered several appropriate selections on the piano. Interment was made in the mausoleum, Undertakers Weaver and Son being in charge. The following young men acted as pall bearers: Marshall Sanger, Castle Brownell, David Root, Maurice Miller, Elwyn Belshaw and Thomas Nichols.
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