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Submitted: 9/11/21 • Approved: 10/7/21 • Last Updated: 10/10/21 • R455831-G455831-S3
Eunice Lorraine Schofield was born on August 10, 1894 to Robert Francis Schofield and Rosa E. Schultz in Edina, Knox County, Missouri.
Mother of Karol Lorraine Kelley.
Mrs. Kelley died on February 2, 1943 in Houston, Harris County, Texas at the age of 48.
Taken from her obituary in the Edina Sentinel (February 4, 1943):
Mrs. E. T. Kelley of Houston, Texas, who was reared in Edina, Missouri and who is a sister of F. E. and J. E. Schofield of The Edina Sentinel, died at her home in Houston, Texas on Tuesday night after an illness with which she had been afflicted for a half dozen years or more. For some weeks she had been confined to her home, and in a serious condition.
When, six years ago, physicians told her she had not more than a year to live, she refused to accept the decision, saying that she would not die until her daughter and only child reached an age where she would be able to care for herself. With her daughter now 15 years old and into high school, Mrs. Kelley's death comes as the culmination of almost unequalled determination, with success achieved. It was, indeed, this determined spirit that dominated her actions throughout life.
As Eunice Schofield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Schofield, she was born in Knox City and came with her parents to Edina when a very young child. She grew up here and attended public schools, completing her high school education at the old Kirksville Normal School and going on to be graduated there with a life teaching certificate. While in Edina she also was graduated from the Edina School of Music.
Desiring a still higher education, she taught school and accepted employment in business offices at times for several years, saving her money and applying it toward her education until finally graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph. B degree. She also attended Vassar College for girls in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and the University of California at Berkeley.
As a teacher, she was a supervisor on the teaching staff of the Illinois State Normal School at Macomb, and taught in the schools of Lake Forest and Evanston, Ill. For several years she was a teller of the Exchange National Bank at Tulsa, Okla., and for a time was private secretary to a wealthy oil operator there.
Upon leaving school she did some magazine work in New York and Boston, and a natural tendency to write has of recent years been suppressed only because of her physical condition. In spite of all, however, she did some writing. As late as 1938 a book was accepted for publication, entitled "Baby's Health Through Natural Laws," and was rather widely distributed over the country. She wrote occasional poems, too, for publication. She wrote vividly of those things she saw with her own eyes, and is perhaps best known to Sentinel readers by travel stories published in the paper in recent years. Innumerable requests have come to The Sentinel from all parts of the United States to have these stories published in book form. She had, too, the knack of being in a city only a few hours and picking up outstanding information on all points of special beauty and historical interest.
She was a great lover of Nature, and thoroughly enjoyed her annual lengthy automobile trips made with her daughter and brother, R. E. Schofield, despite her ill health, the brother devoting his annual vacation period to this form of enjoyment.
She was a member of the Boston Press Club, a charter member of the Southwest Writers' Guild, and was president of the Pen Women's Club of Houston.
While at Chicago University, she was one of two girl graduates to be chosen for special nurses training for the first World War. Trained as a nurse and dietician, she used her knowledge to prolong her own life.
Mrs. Kelley is survived by her husband, a lumber dealer of Houston; her daughter Karol; the two brothers above mentioned of Edina; a brother, Everett E. Schofield, of Minneapolis, Minn., and the youngest brother, R. E. Schofield, of Houston. A brother, Ellis, is dead, having been accidentally killed while in school at Kirksville in 1906. Her parents are both dead. The father died in Tulsa, Okla., in June, 1941. Her mother died at Tulsa, Okla., soon after the family had moved there in 1908.
Mrs. Kelley was married to Mr. Kelley in Kansas City July 28, 1921. After graduation from the University of Missouri, he had taught history there and also at the University of Pennsylvania. After marriage, however, he engaged in business life.
Burial will be at Houston, but word as to funeral arrangements have not yet been received here. F. E. Schofield left Edina early Wednesday morning to attend the funeral.
Contributed on 9/11/21 by deanakh1
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