WILLIAM F. WARNER 1837-1928

WARNER, GLASS, FILES

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 5/3/2007 at 10:04:05

FORMER POSTVILLE MAN PASSES IN CALIFORNIA

(by W. C. McNeil)

Died -- At his home in Long Beach, Calif., December 3, 1928, William F. Warner, aged 91 years, being born December 29, 1837.

Mr. Warner was a native of New York and one of a family of nine children emigrating to Farmersburg, Clayton county, Iowa, in 1855.

He was united in marriage with Jennie Glass on November 3, 1869. The fruits of this union were two sons, Thomas F. and Loren T. of Twin Falls, Idaho, and the two daughters, Mrs. Chas. W. Files of Mason City, Iowa, and Alice L. Warner of Long Beach, California.

From the age of twenty-one years to the period of his passing he had been an active, consistent member of the M. E. church at Luana, Postville and California.

Mr. Warner followed the business of farming and his early home looked out upon the great stretches of prairie that waited the coming of the emigrant and the covered wagon. We first knew him in the winter of 1856, when the deep snows, the crust and the severity of that winter was a challenge to the pioneers, who with their families had braved the elements, the exposure and the hardships that a home might be secured upon the frontier.

To write an obituary of one of these pioneers is to add a leaf to the history of the state of Iowa. The greatest asset they brought into this new environment was character and sons and daughters who dignified the making of a commonwealth.

Wm. F. Warner was not only a member of the church but a patron of the schools and colleges, a man that gave the zest and enthusiasm to all co-operative movements that the interests of the farm or society suggested.

In the closing years of his life the clouds of pain and disease gathered for the storm, but they cast no shadow over the personality that for a lifetime had basked in the sunshine of a happy, hopeful temperament. He wasted no time in personal resentments and fought no battles upon the field of religious hatreds. His cheerful greeting had the ring that stimulates friendship and the echo that holds it. His life gave full measure as a citizen and husband and a father.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.
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