Paoli (IN) Republican, January 6, 1915, p. 4.
OBITUARY
Katherine Green, youngest daughter of Simeon and Helen I. Green, was born at
Paoli, Indiana, May 19, 1876, and died at the home of her sister in New
Albany, December 28, 1914, aged 38 years, 7 months and 9 days.
Paoli was always her home. Here she grew up and attended school, graduating
from the local high school and, afterwards on May 19, 1904, united in
marriage with Oscar Ratts, a prominent young attorney of Paoli. To this
union one daughter was born, Edith Katherine.
Mrs. Ratts was prominent in the social life of our little city and was a
charter member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa Sorority. Although she never
neglected her duties as a wife and mother, yet she found time to aid and
assist the members of this sorority in many of their deeds of charity as
well as social affairs. She was also a member of the Music Study Club and
for several years was treasurer of the club. She was for several years a
prominent member of the Presbyterian Church and for a length of time was
organist for the Sunday School.
She was a woman of high ideals and a strong personality and always stood for
the right. She was a loving and devoted wife and mother, an affectionate
daughter, and was the almost constant companion of her husband and shared
with him in all his troubles and life struggles and rejoiced with him in all
of his successes. Likewise, she was always interested in the things that
pleased her little daughter and wanted to make her happy. Her whole life
seemed centered on her home and little family.
She is survived by a husband, daughter, mother, Mrs. Helen I. Green, of
Paoli, two sisters, Mrs. E. J. Collins of New Albany, and Mrs. F. H. Colyer
of Carbondale, Ills., and one brother, James Taylor Green of New York, who
have the sympathy of a large circle of friends.
The funeral services conducted by Rev. Mark L. Harris, pastor of the Orleans
Presbyterian Church, were held at the family home on West Main Street last
Wednesday afternoon. Interment in I. O. O. F. Cemetery.
The profusion of beautiful flowers presented by friends served as a mute
testimony of the esteem in which deceased was held.