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Rhoda Bates
Death of a Most Estimable Lady Citizen.
Mrs. W. H. Banta died at her home in this city at ten minutes past 11 o'clock Friday night, or puerperile fever.
Rhoda Bates was the daughter of Hail Bates, Sr., and has been known in this county and community from childhood as one possessed of much more than ordinary ability and genius. In girlhood when she was a pupil in the V. M. & F. College, from which institution she graduates and of which she was a subsequent preceptress, her lofty bearing and aspirations gave her position as a leading star in the circle of her associates.
Shortly after her marriage to Prof. Wm. H. Banta, the latter was offered the position of superintendent and principal of the city public and high schools, which he accepted and still holds, and in which the beloved companion he now mourns proved inestimably valuable to him in times of greatest perplexity and need.
As a citizen and friend, as in other regards the deceased was most highly esteemed. Socially, with her superior acquirements, she was exceedingly interesting. She was a prominent member of the Parnassus club, an organization three years old of society-loving people, of which she was one of the brightest lights, the first president, and alas, "Death loves a shining mark!" the first to break the happy circle.
She leaves beside her husband two daughter and an infant son, one sister and a brother to mourn her loss.
She was a consistent Christian lady and for many years an active member of the M. E. church of this city, from which place the funeral occurred on Monday at 11 o'clock a. m.
Newspaper: Porter County Vidette
Date of Publication: December 17, 1885
Volume Number: 29
Issue Number: 51
Page: 4
Column(s): 4
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