Fannie Luella (Fowler) Burwell (1867-1930)

BURWELL, FOWLER, ROBINSON, WHITTIER, BURLING, WADSWORTH, DECKER, BRUNER

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 9/4/2010 at 21:38:25

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Jan. 8, 1931, pg. 1
Funeral Mrs.
Burwell Held
Here Friday

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Had Been Resident of This
County for Over Sixty
Years

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The funeral services of Mrs. Fan-
nie Luella Burwell were held at
1:30 p. m. on Friday, January 2nd,
1931, at the home of her brother,
Oscar Fowler, in Exira. Mrs. Bur-
well passed away at this home,
where she had been cared for since
last May by Mrs. Dicy C. Robinson
and Oscar Fowler, on Wednesday
afternoon, December 31st, 1930,
Rev. A. G. Whittier, pastor of the
Exira Church of Christ, had charge
of the services.

Fannie Luella Fowler was born
at Marietta, Ohio, on the third day
of May, 1867

At a very early age her parents
moved to Iowa, and the deceased
had been living in Audubon county
for the past sixty years. Here she
grew to maturity, and was married,
in the same house in which she
died, to Asahael B. Burwell (1857-1926), with
the Rev. Burling, a former Metho-
dist minister of Exira, performing
the ceremony. Her husband pre-
ceded in death five years ago
this January.

Just one month ago, on the first
day of December, a sister, Mrs.
Wadsworth (1864-1930), had preceded Mrs.
Burwell into the Great Beyond. Be-
sides the mother (Amelia Decker 1841-1934), who died seven
years ago, and the father (William Henry Fowler 1831-1928), who died
two years ago, Mrs. Burwell is the
second one of the brothers and sis-
ters who have crossed the Great
River which separates the Seen
from the Unseen.

Surviving this sister are three
brothers, Wilbur Fowler of St.
George, Utah; Elmer Fowler who
lives south of Exira, Oscar Fowler
of Exira, two sisters, Mrs. Ida
Bruner and Mrs. Florence Bruner,
both of Shelton, Nebraska; a large
number of nephews and nieces, and
a great number of neighbors and
friends.

The deceased had been in very
poor health for some time, having
been bed-fast most of the time
since last May, at which time she
was moved from her house to that
of her brother, Oscar Fowler. Her
heart failed and she passed quietly
into that eternal sleep which knows
no physical awakening.

"Live is real, Life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul."