Allen County Obituaries
Catherine Eaton Richie
MRS. RICHIE DIES SUDDENLY
Heart Attack Fatal to Well Known Lima Woman
Mrs. Catherine Eaton Richie, 70, widow of the late Walter B. Richie, died at her home 606 W. North-st. at 11 p.m. Saturday from a heart attack.
While she has been subject to heart trouble for the last five years, she was apparently in good health, having talked ot her daughter, Mrs. L. S. Galvin, about 8 p.m. The attack came after she had retired and she died within 10 minutes.
Mrs. Richie was born in Crawford-co, near Bucyrus, and came to Lima 40 years ago with her husband who opened a law office in partnership with his brother, Judge John E. Richie. She was prominent in the Presbyterian church and in social and civic affairs.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. L. S. Galvin and a granddaughter, Catharine Richie Galvin, of 637 W. Market-st, a sister, Mrs. W. J. Richie, Jameson-av, and two brothers, Horace A. Eaton, Boone-blk, and Harvey Eaton, Bucyrus.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, the Rev. Samuel Huecker officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn.
Walter B. Richie, husband of the deceased, was one of the most prominent attorneys in this section and attained national prominence as Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, whose ritual he revised. He died in April, 1918.
SOURCE: Newspaper obituary, June 24, 1923
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