Mary Waters 1866-1931

WATERS, MILLETT, ELLIS, TEEFY, PEARSON, MOORHEAD

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/2/2018 at 09:43:30

23 July 1931 - West Branch Times

Mary F. Millett, daughter of Sarah and Alfred Millett, was born in Vermillion county, Ill., July 14, 1866, and passed away at the University Hospital at Iowa City July 19, 1931.

When a small child she came with her parents to Cedar county, Iowa, growing to womanhood in the farm home near Springdale. She was graduated from the Springdale high school in 1887, and entered the State University where she spent two years in preparation for teaching. After several years of successful experience in the rural schools, she took a special primary teacher's course in Teachers' College at Cedar Falls, and distinguished herself in her work in the schools of Mechanicsville and Monticello.

She was married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 29, 1903, to J. W. Waters, and their new home was set up at Champaign, Ill. After several years residence there, they removed to Florida where they remained until 1920, when they returned to Iowa, making their home in West Liberty where Mr. Waters died a year later. Upon coming to West Liberty, they united with the First Presbyterian church and always took an active interest in its welfare. She was a member of the Women's Missionary Society and the Ladies Aid Society and a willing, faithful worker as long as her health would permit.

She leaves to mourn her loss, three stepsons and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Catherine Ellis, to whom she has been a mother since childhood; four sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Teefy and Lucy Millett of Springdale, with whom she had been making her home, Mrs. Sabra Pearson of Florida; Mrs. Alice Moorhead of West Branch; and three brothers, Lewis Millett of Ames and Albert and Lee Millett of Springdale.

Last rites were conducted for her from the Presbyterian church of West Liberty Tuesday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. James H. Mahaffy, assisted by a quartet composed of W. R. Tharp, Miss Arlene Mahaffy, Mrs. L. A. Whitacre and A. H. Ditmars, with Mrs. J. H. Mahaffy accompanying and playing the funeral dirges. The hymns were requests of the family, "Lead, Kindly Light," "Rock of Ages" and "Face to Face with Christ, My Savior."

The interment was in Oakridge cemetery by the side of the form of her husband.