Mrs. DORA M. JAMES
KENTON -- Rites for Mrs. Dora M. James, 82, of Route 6, Kenton, who died Friday at Antonio hospital from heart ailment, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Church of Christ. Burial will be in Grove Cemetery. The Price funeral home is in charge of arrangements.

She was born in Hardin Co. May 28, 1870. She was a member of the Church of Christ and was married to Emmet James who died in December 1952.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lowell McQuown, Mrs. Roy McMillen and Mrs. Russell Ream, all of Ada, and Mrs. Fred McKinley of Kenton; two sons, Park James of Kenton and Burle James of Mt. Victory; 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
THE LIMA NEWS obituary, Lima, Oh., 15 May 1953 A.D.


Dora loved to have the grandchildren come to visit, but she didn't want and (sic) roughhousing or problems. She would make the kids mind. One day Dorothy Mae McKee and Gene James and Ruth Ann McMillen were fussing about something on the back cement steps and Dora told them to stop. No response from the kids, so Dora picked up her broom and cleared the porch of quarreling kids.

She milked the cows and saved the cream to make butter. She would sit down after she had gathered all her cream and churn it to butter. I remember waching her turn the churn, with the bail of the churn, and sing while she worked. After the butter was churned, she would take it out and put it in a big wooden bowl. There she worked all the buttermilk from the butter and worked it into a brick which probably weighed about 10 pounds. Then she would take her butter paddle and make a pretty design in the top. On Saturday she and Emmet would get into the Paige and take the butter and eggs to Kenton where she went to Fraters Market and Bolenbaugh's Market to trade for the next weeks supplies. She usually went to Barrs or Woolworths and got a pound of chocolate drops (nougat with chocolat dip on the outside). Only on special occassions did she go back into her bedroom and get some out for the grandchildren.

She would bake the best sugar cookies. To a kid the cookies seemed about 6 inches in diameter but the were porbably more like 4 inches. Most times she would make faces on the cookies with raisins. With the scalloped edges made by her cutter and the raisin faces the cookies looked like flower faces. We always enjoyed those cookies.

Dora had diabetes but would not watch the sugar intake like she should. She always had sores on her legs which she kept bandaged with Ace bandages. When she could no longer stay by herself, she went to stay with Park and Helen. Helen made her watch her sugar and was so proud to say that Dora's legs had all healed up before she died.

Dora was a short person, probably about 5-2 or 3. She always wore her hair in a bun on the back of her head. Much of the time at home she would not wear her false teeth. She nearly always wore a pale blue cotton apron. She used her glasses only when she read the paper or letters from loved ones.
From a gedcom contributed by Gene Carl James