Winters, Alberta

Passed: 1914-04-23

Age: 20

Source: Mountaineer

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1914-04-24

Information: Intelligence of the sudden death of Miss Alberta Winters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. G. Winters, which occurred at three o'clock Thursday afternoon, following the third operation for obstruction of the bowels, at the Second Miners Hospital in Welch, McDowell county, cast a gloom of sorrow over the entire community and is a terrible shock to her family and friends.      Miss Winters was teaching at Yukon and was taken to the hospital on Thursday of last week.  Mrs. Winters went down Friday.  The first operation was performed Saturday morning, and it was then thought she would recover.  Two more operations followed, the results proving fatal.  Her parents, two brothers, Grover and Corbin Winters, and one sister, Miss Beulah Winters, survive.      She was born July 13, 1893, and died 23 April 1914.  The remains, accompanied by Mrs. Winters and the young lady's brother. Corbin Winters, who went to Huntington this morning, will be brought to Ripley tonight and taken to the home near Fairplain for burial.  The funeral will be held from the Fairview Church at 11 o'clock Sunday morning, Rev. J. L. West officiating.  (McIntyre)