Obituary – The Tiller and Toiler March 10, 1905, p. 1

Death of Mrs. L.F. Ainsworth.

One of the saddest deaths which it has been the unwelcome duty of this paper to record in a long time is that of Mrs. L.F. Ainsworth, who died at Ralph's sanitarium in Kansas City last Monday morning. Mrs. Ainsworth has been in bad health for a number of years with heart trouble, and about Christmas time went to Kansas City and entered the above sanitarium for treatment. Reports of her condition have not been very encouraging lately, but the news of her death Monday morning came as a terrible shock to her husband and children and friends.

The remains were brought home by her mother, Mrs. Lighty, Tuesday evening, and were interred in Larned Cemetery Wednesday afternoon, after funeral services at the M.E. Church conducted by Rev. C.S. Hestwood of Kingman. The daughters of Rebecca which order Mrs. Ainsworth was a member held services at the grave, and the members of that order and of the odd fellows attended in a body.

Vilora J. Malone was born in Livingston County, Illinois, June 5, 1861 and was 42 years nine months and one day old at the time of death. She was married to L.F. Ainsworth in Larned January 1, 1882, and of the union four children were born, who together with her husband, mother, a sister and a brother survive her. She united with the Presbyterian Church in 1880 but later joined the Methodist Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death.

Mrs. Ainsworth was a good wife, a devoted mother and a true friend. Her disposition was kindly, pleasant and agreeable under all circumstances. Her loss to the community is keenly felt by a very large circle of warm friends, among whom her bright and always smiling face and cheerful disposition will be almost as badly missed as in the family circle which is forever broken by her death. To her heartbroken children and husband the sincere sympathy of the community goes out, with the hope that time, the healer of all wounds, will speed its flight to the day when they can feel reconciled to the loss which at present must be so hard to bear.