Mary Genella Baldan Navarre

1854 - 1945  (91 years)

• Name	Mary Genella Baldan Navarre
  Born	14 Feb 1854	Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Apr 1945	Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I5449	Rossville
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	James Baldan
  Mother	Martha Baldan
  Family ID	F2614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gregory Navarre,   b. 24 Jul 1846, South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana ,   d. 10 Feb 1902, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas  (Age 55 years)
  Married	1871
  Children	1. Henry Clay Navarre,   b. 1871/1872 + 2. Jerome Navarre,   b. 14 Sep 1872, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 18 Oct 1933, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 61 years)   3. Robert Navarre,   d. 3 Aug 1883 + 4. Peter Navarre,   b. 26 Mar 1884,   d. 25 Aug 1970, Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma  (Age 86 years)   5. Edith Navarre,   b. 1886,   d. 1902  (Age 16 years)   6. Maggie Navarre,   b. 24 Oct 1888, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 11 Jun 1908  (Age 19 years)   7. Alice Navarre,   b. 1893,   d. 22 Aug 1912  (Age 19 years) + 8. Joseph Navarre,   b. 19 Mar 1895, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 10 Nov 1980, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2020 15:52:15
  Family ID	F1639	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Obituary- Navarre, Mary 1 MARY GENELLA NAVARRE Mary Navarre, mother of the Reporter editor and Joe Navarre, Rossville's route carrier, passed away shortly before 6 o’clock Monday morning. She had lived in this community and Shawnee county many more years, than any other citizen of Ross¬ville. Born at Westport, Mo., now Kan¬sas City, February 14, 1854, the daughter of James and Martha Baldan, she inherited the rugged consti¬tution of her sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and while a petite woman through choice, up to less than a year ago lived in her little home alone. Her mother died when she was little over three years old, and until her father married Mary Ann Rice, she was taken care of by an old French woman named Chumois, and reared in the old Clinton hotel, at Indianola, which ante-dated and rivaled the present city of Topeka as a townsite. At that time Silver Lake, Rossville and all the territory southwest nearly to Paxico was in the Pottawatomie reservation. Her stepmother, being of Indian ancestry, owned an allotment just west of Rossville, now known as the Clarence Emert farm. There mother was reared. A few oldtimers still remember the old double log house that was her home. What schooling she got was from the Mission school at St. Marys conducted by the Madames of the Sacred Heart who later turned their property to the Jesuits for the present St. Mary’s college. Mother was never concerned over the fact she was living in an age that saw this section developed from a wilderness to its present state of de¬velopment. She married Gregory Navarre in 1871 and eleven children were born to them. Providence decreed that none of her daughters was to live to comfort her in her last years. Just two sons, your editor, her seventh, and Joe, her elev¬enth, remain. In 1888 or 89 her father and family moved to Oklahoma. After her husband’s death in 1902, she devoted her life to rearing her remaining children, who one by one passed on. We could fill another column of episodes of her girlhood days when the fawn west of town was the stop¬ping place for people from the East, pushing westward: some of them even to die there and be buried in the private cemetery just southwest of the old house; the arrival of the first train here; the stirring early history of Rossville community; the arrival of the Navarre family from South Bend, Indiana, in 1866, one of the sons a few years later to be¬come her husband. Her first son was named Henry Clay Navarre, and her second was Jerome, (Polly)) to you, who died 12 years ago. It is told her father stood off the Kansas Pacific surveyors with a shotgun when they sought to establish their 400-foot right-of-way given in a federal land grant, through his farm. As a matter of fact he made good and when a few years ago they did establish their claim to that right-of-way it was found they had had to purchase the 100 feet they now use. Mother and Dad moved into Ross¬ville before the town was established as a city of the third class, which was in 1881, and except for a brief residence in Topeka, this has been Mother’s home since.
  		Obituary- Navarre, Mary 2 Besides ourself and Joe, her grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, she is survived by her half sister, Nora Baldan Moore, who lives at Wichita, many nephews and nieces and a host of friends to whom she always will be remembered as “Little Mary.” Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 9:30 in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, with a requiem Mass sung by the Rev. Fr. F.P. Clerkin, S.J. The pallbearers were Messrs. Paul Martin, Reed Martin, Clarence Em¬ert, Dick Cantillon, Harold Cowan, and Louis Cowan. Burial was in the family lot in Rossville Cemetery.
  		Birthday- Navarre, Mary Mrs. Mary Navarre was pleasantly surprised Monday when her children dropped in unannounced with a prepared dinner to help her celebrate her 90th birthday anniversary. Covers were laid for Mrs. Navarre, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Navarre and Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Navarre and Peggy.
  		Birthday- Navarre, Mary 2 Mrs. Mary Navarre celebrated her 91st birthday anniversary Valentine Day. She was the guest of honor [at the] home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Navarre. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Navarre and Peggy and Joyce. Grandma Navarre has been in failing health for some time and is now very feeble.