J. M. DAY OBITUARY

© Chanlder Newspaper

Submitted by: Anna Hardin

RITES HELD FOR PIONEER WOMAN

Funeral services for Mrs. J. M. Day, 88 yr. old pioneer of Chandler Community, who died at her home east of Chandler last Thursday, were held Saturday after noon at the Church of Christ. Burial was in New Zion Cemetery.

Pallbearers were her grandsons, Glen and Earl Day, Harold and Jack Alford, Jack Evans and Vernon Jones. Flower girls were her eight granddaughters.

Mrs. Day, daughter of John and Lucinda Coltharp, was born in Indiana {Putnam Co.} on February 14, 1864. In her early years there she was the end of the Civil War and lived through the difficult Reconstruction period. Later, with her parents she moved to Kansas where on March 4, 1885, at Manhattan, she was united in marriage to J. M. Day. To them nine children were born, four of whom, with Mr. Day, preceded the Mother in death.

The family came to Lincoln County in 1894 settling on a farm near Sparks. Later they moved to a farm east of Chandler where they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1935. Mrs. Day has had a Chandler mailing address for 58 yrs. Mr. Day died Dec. 30, 1935. {Mrs. Day died June 12, 1952.}

Mrs. Day was a member of the Church of Christ and was active in church circles up to the time of her death.