OBITUARY: Alice Ross Knotts, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 24 Jul 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Tuesday, 28 Jun 1938, p. 3, c. 3 MRS. KNOTTS DIES AFTER SUFFERING LONG ILL HEALTH Alice Knotts, wife of Rev. Joseph Knotts, pastor of the First Methodist church, passed away Monday afternoon in the parsonage home, 27 North Orange street, after six months' illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, at 2:30 p.m. in the First Methodist church, Dr. S. W. Hall of Salem officiating and Rev. L. F. Belknap and Dr. T. H. Temple assisting. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial Park with the Conger funeral parlors in charge. Alice Ross was born on a farm near Essex, Iowa, June 26, 1876. Later her parents moved to Carson, Iowa. When she was about sixteen years of age the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where she finished pubic school and attended the Highland Park Normal college. Her father was a music teacher and she earl showed traits of musical ability. She graduated from the Des Moines College of Music and taught piano for a number of years. She was organist of the Highland Park Methodist church for about twelve years. On February 28, 1907, she was married to Joseph Knotts. In September of that year Mr. and Mrs. Knotts came to Oregon, Mr. Knotts entering the ministry of the Methodist church. For 31 years Mrs. Knotts has labored faithfully with her husband, serving at Lafayette, Junction City, Marshfield, Grant's Pass, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, The Dalles and Medford. Mrs. Knotts was converted when just a school girl and has lived a faithful, earnest and aggressive Christian life, active, as health would permit in the Sunday school, choir, ladies' aid and other church organizations. She was zealous in the work of the missionary societies and an ardent supporter of the W. T. C. U. After several years of poor health, she became ill with the flu December 31, last. A few days later she developed angina pectoris which was the cause of her death. She is survived by her husband and by one son, Rev. Ross Knotts of Odell, Oregon.