ISBELL, Gertrude – died 1897

ISBELL

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/12/2018 at 12:36:00

Death of Mrs. Gertrude Isbell.

Monday night, Mrs. Gertrude Isbell, wife of A. W. Isbell, quietly passed away after patient suffering since the 8 of January. The doctor’s certificate showed that peritonitis was the cause of death.

It is sad indeed that one so young, and whose life prospects were so bright and promising, should be taken so soon by the reaper of death; but two short years ago she came to our midst a happy bride, the wife of Arthur Isbell, and now the husband is not only bereft of his wife but saddest of all a little child less than a year old is left without the tender care of a mother.

Mrs. Isbell was a graduate of the Cedar Falls High School and also of the State Normal school. She taught in the Cresco High School for several years, and out of respect to the deceased said school closed on Wednesday and several of the teachers as well as a number of the graduating class attended the funeral services here, which services were conducted at the house, Rev. C. A. Parkins officiating. There was a large congregation of friends from this place, Cresco, and Decorah, and many handsome boquets [sic] of flowers were sent as a tribute to the departed one.

Immediately after the services the remains were placed on board the train and taken to Cedar Falls, accompanied by the mourners, for interment at her old home, where the burial hour was set for two o’clock Thursday, services being conducted by Presiding Elder Coleman, of the M. E. church and Rev. R. A. Smith of the Baptist church.—Calmar Courier.

Iowa Plain Dealer May 4, 1897, FP, C5