The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 18, 1903
page 20

OBITUARY

A lovely life closed when the spirit of Laura Canaday Hollaway took its flight for the home above. She was born March 17th, 1849, at Georgetown, Ill., and spent her girlhood there being married in 1865 to Jesse R. Halloway (sic). To the union were born two sons and three daughters, all but one daughter surviving her. On leaving Illinois home in 1886, the family located in El Dorado, Kansas, from which place they went to Fort Worth, coming to Oklahoma City in 1891, where they have since resided. 

For several years Mrs. Halloway (sic) has been in delicate health, but in the various relations of wife, mother, sister and friend has nobly born her part in the work of life. In the early summer, in hope of bettering her condition, a trip to Arizona was made, but there some six weeks since she was attacked with what seemed pneumonia. She hurried homeward, after a partial recovery, but only to suffer more intensely and to engage the battle of life more unequally than ever. Medical skill exhausted for her relief, but after continued sinking she passed away fully conscious to the ___ at 4:25 Friday morning, October __, 1903. Services were conducted at the home by her pastor, Rev. Frank E. Day, on Saturday afternoon, October 10th, and interment was made in Fairlawn cemetery. She has been a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her youthful days and her quiet christian demeanor was a benedi___ to those around her. Her efforts in church work were only hindered by her weak condition.

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