Cortright, Margaret Ellen Geyer 1860-1937

CORTRIGHT, GEYER, SAUL, CONLIN, BARTON, HARDY, CORTRIGHT

Posted By: Faye Cortright Hutchinson (email)
Date: 8/23/2006 at 21:18:34

Margaret Ellen Geyer Cortright Obituary
Unknown Waterloo Newspaper, February 1937

Mrs. Margaret Ellen Cortright, 76, early settler in Black Hawk County, died at 3:20 P. M. Saturday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Hardy, 825 Lime Street, after an illness of a year and a half.

Following an influenza attack in August 1935, pernicious anemia became a complication and caused her death. She had been bedfast for eight weeks.

Born Nov. 2, 1860, near Rock Grove, Stephenson County, Illinois, she came with her parents, Joseph and Martha (Benage) Geyer, by ox team to Lester Center, Black Hawk County, in 1868. Later the family moved to Butler County, Iowa. She was married May 14, 1879 to E. J. Cortright at Cedar Falls, Ia.

Mr. and Mrs. Cortright lived on a farm in Butler County until moving about 35 years ago to Winslow where Mr. Cortright operated a general store.

A few years after Mr. Cortright's death in Winslow Jan. 5, 1909, Mrs. Cortright came to Waterloo, where she had since made her home with her daughters. She had been living with Mrs. Hardy for the last four years.

Mrs. Cortright was a member of First Methodist Episcopal Church. Altrurian class of the Sunday school, Royal Neighbor Lodge, Temple Rebekah Lodge 54 and the Woman's Relief Corps.

Surviving are four daughters and two sons: Mrs. Iris Saul, 409 Washington Street, Cedar Falls; Mrs. H. J. Conlin, Route 5, Cedar Falls; Harry J. Cortright, Nashua, Ia; E. E. Cortright, Orange Township; Mrs. Kathryn M. Barton, 617 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, and Mrs. Hardy. There also are 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mrs. Cortright was the last of a family of eight children.

The body will remain in the Kearns Garden Chapel until funeral service is conducted there at 1:30 P. M. Monday by Rev. Will Bowers, First M. E. pastor. Servicing as casket bearers will be the two sons and the four grandsons, Glenn Saul of Mason City, Warren Hardy of Waterloo and Kenneth and Home Cortright, both of Orange Township. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery, New Hartford, where Mr. Cortright is buried.

Members of the Rebekah and Royal Neighbor Lodges will attend the funeral in a body.