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Note: The 1900 Census lists her occupation as "Decorator Pottery" and puts her birth year as March, 1884. Her death record suggests that she suffered for 10 days with a heart ailment and died just short of her 31st birthday. Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Dewitt, NY, Lot 2.
Obituary for Laura B. CAPELS,died May 01, 1916
The funeral of Miss Laura CAPELS, who died yesterday morning, will be held at the family home, No. 1010 Avery avenue, at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning and half an hour later at St. Patricks Church. Members of Branch No. 31, L. C. B. A. [Ladies Catholic Benevolent
Association], of which she was member, will attend. Burial will be in St. Agnes Cemetery. She was the daughter of Loren and Mary CARROLL Capels and besides her parents is survived by two sisters, Catherine and Mary Capels; nine brothers, Edward, Lester, Roger, Loren, Carroll, Lawrence, Thomas, Arthur and William Capels; and her grandfather Lester Capels.
[Source: either Syracuse Herald-Journal or Post Standard, May 2, 1916; notes in brackets and capitalization added by VC]
Follow-up article
Many Attend Funeral of Miss Laura B. CAPELS. The Rev. William MOORE celebrated a solemn requiem mass at St. Patricks Church at 9:30 o'clock this morning at the funeral of Miss Laura B. Capels. It was one of the largest ever held in the West End. Services were held at the home, 1010 Avery av., at 9 o'clock. Branch No. 31, L. C. B. A. [Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association], attended in a body. The bearers were Albert BRAUN, Thomas BUTLER, Micheal FOLEY, William MCCORREY, George MEEHAN, and Lawrence BARNES, interment being in St. Agnes.
[Source: either Syracuse Herald-Journal or Post Standard, May 3, 1916; notes in brackets and capitalization added by VC]
According to Marie Rose Obert, National Secretary-Treasurer of the Loyal Christian Benefit Association, via e-mail on 06/25/2001, the LCBA was then the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association. She wrote that there was a Branch 31 in Binghamton, NY and that Branch 30 was and is still in Syracuse. Branch 31 was closed in 1956.
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