DEATH CLAIMS PIONEER OF HATCHING INDUSTRY

CLARA R. COLWELL September 25, 1957
Smith County Pioneer Smith Center, Kansas

Services for Mrs. Clara Colwell Held Here Monday

Mrs. Clara R. Colwell, 80, died Friday, Sept. 20, in a Larned, Kansas hospital, following a long illness.

She was born in Marion county, Kansas, to Robert and Margaret (Brooks) Sinex and came to Smith county in 1902 as the bride of John M. Colwell of Bellaire, Kansas.

She pioneered the baby chick hatching industry in Smith Center and owned and operated the Colwell Hatchery until in 1930, when due to poor health she was forced to close the hatchery.

She is survived by a son, Clyde T. Colwell, Bellaire, Kansas, and a daughter, Dr. Goldia B. Young, Oklahoma City, Okla; also five grandchildren and ten great- grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Ambler and Dr. Lisa A. Yoder, both of Newton, Kansas.

Services were held Monday, Sept. 23, 1957 in the chapel of the Simmons-Oliff funeral home, with the Rev. Harold Lambert of the Methodist church officiating, assisted with music by Mrs. Harold Lambert, soloist.

Burial was in Fairview cemetery.