Obituary - Sarah E. Rhodes, wife of Isadore Rhodes of Patchogue, died in Port Jefferson Wednesday morning. Mrs. Rhodes was born in Lake Grove 58 years ago. Last Friday, she was in Sayville to attend the funeral of the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. George West. On Saturday she was motoring across the island, bound for Port Jefferson, when the steering gear of the car broke on the Port Jefferson Hill and the car was overturned and she was so badly injured that her death occurred on Wednesday. The car was driven by her son-in-law. Roy Overton was not hurt.
She is survived by her husband and three daughters, Mrs. Nellie E. Overton, of Lake Grove, Mrs. Myrtle Raeburn, of Rochester, Mrs. Clara Robinson, of Blue Point, and three sons, Harry L. Rhodes of Port Jefferson, Burt and Chester Rhodes of Patchogue.
Funeral services will be held from her late home on Waverly Avenue, Patchogue at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon and burial will be in the Union Cemetery, Sayville, about 2:15 O'clock.
Suffolk County News (Sayville),Friday, February 22, 1918,
Page: 4)
Obituary - Sarah E. Rhodes, wife of Isadore Rhodes of Patchogue, died in Port Jefferson Wednesday morning. Mrs. Rhodes was born in Lake Grove 58 years ago. Last Friday, she was in Sayville to attend the funeral of the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. George West. On Saturday she was motoring across the island, bound for Port Jefferson, when the steering gear of the car broke on the Port Jefferson Hill and the car was overturned and she was so badly injured that her death occurred on Wednesday. The car was driven by her son-in-law. Roy Overton was not hurt.
She is survived by her husband and three daughters, Mrs. Nellie E. Overton, of Lake Grove, Mrs. Myrtle Raeburn, of Rochester, Mrs. Clara Robinson, of Blue Point, and three sons, Harry L. Rhodes of Port Jefferson, Burt and Chester Rhodes of Patchogue.
Funeral services will be held from her late home on Waverly Avenue, Patchogue at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon and burial will be in the Union Cemetery, Sayville, about 2:15 O'clock.
Suffolk County News (Sayville),Friday, February 22, 1918,
Page: 4)
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