Mrs. Caroline Wolfe Donk, a former resident of Decatur, died at the Grace Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., March 18.  She would have been sixty-nine years old April 25.  She had enjoyed excellent health until Dec. 26, when she fell on the ice and injured her hip.  She seemed to be slowly improving, when complications developed and caused her death.

 

Mrs. Donk came to Decatur from Ohio over twenty-five years ago.  She had been making her home in Kansas City for about five years.  She was the youngest of thirteen children, only two of whom survive her.  She is survived by three daughters and two sons, Miss Inez Wolfe of Kansas City, Mrs. Forrest Acton of Decatur, Mrs. Frank Barrett of Oakley, C. P. Wolfe of Battle Creek, Mich., and Berkley E. Wolfe of the Hawaiian Islands.  She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Lydia Dowler, of Birch Tree, Mo., aged seventy-seven years, and a brother, Leonard Enochs of Acottoun, (sic Scottown) O. (Ohio).  There are eight grandchildren.  A brother, General Henry Enochs of Ironton, O., died a few years ago.  Three of her children, Mrs. Forrest Acton, Miss Inez Wolfe and C. P. Wolfe were with her when the end came.  Her youngest son, now in the Hawaiian Islands, would soon have made her a visit.  He served twenty-two months in France and has been in the Hawaiian Islands for the last two years.  She had seven brothers who served in the Civil War.

 

The funeral was held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, March 21 at the Carroll & Mast chapel.  The body was placed in a receiving vault in the Forest Hill cemetery until the return of her son.