Hoxsey, Bell 1872-1913

HOXSEY, WARNER, SANDERS

Posted By: Geo Clinton (email)
Date: 4/28/2016 at 20:58:43

Storm Lake Pilot Tribune - December 24, 1913 - Mrs. E.D. Hoxsey, mention of whose tragic death by burning was made in this newspaper last week, was born in Antioch, Illinois, April 23, 1872, her maiden name being Belle Warner.

When she was young her father died and she was taken by Mr and Mrs A.B. Sanders, who soon after moved to Friend, Ne., where her girlhood days were spent and where on May 3, 1890 she was united in marriage to Edward D Hoxsey and came to this city to live. The remainder of her life with the exception of two years spent in the west, was spent in this city, where her two children, Genevieve, age ten, and Clifford, age nine, were born.

Early in life she united with the Congregational and continued in that faith until coming to this city, when she affiliated with the Presbyterian church.

The house of sorrow is hardly the place from which to emanate public eulogies concerning the deceased, but the passing of "Auntie Belle," as the boy called her, almost from the home of the writer, must not be with but the cold recital that she was born, lived and died. She lived a life of cheerfulness, of helpfulness and of fidelity. In her girlhood days she learned many of the accomplishments, and the years of her life were spent in their exemplification. The mother and home instincts were strong with in her and she also enjoyed with a merry heart the assemblying together of friends. She made her home a place of delight to her husband and to her two children and to the sojourner within their walls.

When death came nigh her bodily dwelling, she was unafraid and sorry only because of those dear ones she was leaving behind. The full beauty of womanhood, wife and mother were hers. While it cannot but seem that her life had not run its course, yet it is. True that her little more than two score years had been spent in loving service to her widowed mother first and then to her foster parents, and to girlhood friends, then to her husband and children, and the hosts of friends, and they all mourn.

She has gone to the communion of saints, leaving aching and heavy hearts behind, which were made lighter by the kindly helpfulness and sympathy of scores of friends.

Funeral services were held at the home of Judge and Mrs. A.D. Bailie on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by the Rev. T.A. Ambler, her pastor. Profuse floral offerings gave testimony to the tender regard in which the deceased was held. Fitting music was furnished by Mrs. DeLand, Mrs. J.B. Alexander, Wilbur Kaufman, and Don LaGrange with Miss Laura Holmes at the piano. Mrs. Alexander, a devoted friend, sang "Some Day We'll Understand," and the body was taken to its resting place in the Storm Lake cemetery.