- MRS. S.W. WINDERS DIED AT SANTA BARBARA Funeral This Friday and Interment in California of Member of Pioneer Family Here Who Was Long Active in the Affairs of This Community
Mrs. S.W. Winders, member of a pioneer family of Sycamore, and active and widely known in this community for many years, died on Wednesday, April 21, at Santa Barbara, Calif., where Mr. and Mrs. Winders had resided since a year ago last fall.
Jennie Johnson was born in Sycamore in 1859, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Johnson, pioneers of this community. She was educated in the public schools and in the private school, quite an important institution in the early days, which was conducted by her aunt, Miss Johnson. In 1889 she was united in marriage to Sam W. Winders, who conducted a bakery and restaurant and was for many years one of our leading and most active merchants. With the exception of a few years' residence at Champaign where the children attended the University of Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Winders had always resided in Sycamore, until their removal a year and a half ago to California where they could be near their daughter.
Mrs. Winders leaves surviving, besides her husband, their son Ray Winders, a graduate of the University of Illinois, employed in New York City, and their daughter Mrs. Bessie Laskey, who, with her young daughter Ruthrae, resides at Santa Barbara. She also leaves surviving her brother Frank W. Johnson of this city.
The weather had been cold and unfavorable this winter at their home near the ocean and she had been steadily failing in health, but up to near the end she had hoped to return to Sycamore. She died of pernicious anemia.
The funeral services were to be held at their home in Santa Barbara this Friday afternoon, and the interment was to be in the cemetery there. Mrs. Winders had long been a devoted an active member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in this city. She was always happy and cheerful as a girl, and living and helpful as a wife and mother. Seldom are the members of a family more congenial than were the members of this family, and seldom are a couple who have reached the years of Mr. and Mrs. Winders so much of one mind in all things. Her many friends in Sycamore are much saddened, and deeply sympathize with the family in their loss. Greatly will she be missed in the activities of St. Peter's church. A memorial service in Mrs. Winders' honor will be held in St. Peter's church next Sunday morning.
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1850 - 1922 (71 years)
