Mary Elizabeth Boyd Strickland (1869-1954)
(Mrs. Charles Ison Strickland)
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 with granddaughter |
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This January 7, 1943, Lowell Tribune article appeared on page 1, column 6:
50th WEDDING ANIVERSARY CELEBRATED LAST SUNDAY
The family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strickland, former residents here, now living in Crown Point, gathered there last Sunday to help them celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They were married January 4, 1892*, at El Paso, Ill., in the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Strickland came to Lowell about 30 years ago and lived on their farm southwest of town for many years until moving to Hammond a number of years ago. They have resided in Crown Point for several years, where Mr. Strickland is superintendent of the farm at the county infirmary.A one o'clock dinner was served to family members at Lamson's at the county seat, after which open house was held at the Strickland home.
Family members from a distance attending the anniversary celebration included Miss Emma L. Boyd and Mrs. Rose Boyd, both of El Paso, Ill., and Mrs. Elise Morris of Chenoa, Ill.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Strickland are 72 years of age. They have three children -- Leslie, and Floyd and Mrs. Driscoll Carstens, all residing in Gary.
The many friends of the Stricklands here at their old home join in extending congratulations to them.
A copy of the following April 15, 1954, Lowell Tribune article appeared on page 5, column 4:
Mrs. Charles Strickland, 84, Laid to Rest
Memorial services were held Tuesday afternoon, April 13, at the Weaver funeral home for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Strickland who passed away Saturday.The daughter of Robert and Eliza Boyd, she was born August 23, 1869, near Rutland, Ill., and on January 4, 1893* she was married to Charles I. Strickland. Since the death of her husband eight years ago, she had made her home with her daughter Imogene Carstens.
Rev. E.L. Worley officiated and she was interred beside her husband in the Lowell cemetery.
Surviving are three children, Leslie H., J. Floyd and Imogene Carstens, and four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; also three sisters, all of El Paso, Ill.
* NOTE -- The article on the 50th anniversary (at the top of the page) set the year of her marriage as 1892, but this obituary listed it as 1893. It is likely that the 1892 date was a typo, as the 50th anniversary article appeared in the 1943 paper.
A copy of the following newspaper article, hand-identified as being from the April 15, 1954, Star, was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal:
Rites In Lowell Tuesday For Widow Of C.I. Strickland
Death came to Mary Elizabeth Boyd Strickland, widow of Charles Strickland, Saturday in Gary Methodist hospital. Long a resident in Lowell's farming community and for a number of years here on South Main Street while her husband lived, she had been more recently with her daughter, Mrs. Richard Carstens, in Gary.Born in Illinois 84 years ago, she leaves two sons, Leslie of Gary, Floyd of Wanatah with Mrs. Carstens, four grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, and three sisters, among them Mrs. Ella Wetzler, of El Paso, Illinois. Her husband, who had spent virtually a lifetime on a farm in West Creek, had, for several years before his death in 1946, managed the farming interests at the Lake County home.
Rev. E.L. Worley conducted services for Mrs. Strickland Tuesday afternoon at Weaver's chapel before burial was made in Lowell cemetery.
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