Anna Worrall 1863-1922

WORRALL, PLUMLY, EATON

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Date: 6/14/2018 at 08:23:02

2 February 1922 - West Branch Times

Anna Leland Plumly was born March 24, 1863, at Barnesville, Ohio. She attended school at Barnesville graduating from the high school, and at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, where she graduated from the normal department. Subsequently she taught at Barnesville and vicinity and at the same time began the literary and journalistic work which she carried on in various forms in later years.

After teaching for a time at Geneseo, Ill., she became matron of the Soldiers Orphans Home at Davenport, Iowa, for one year. She then taught for a time in the vicinity of Atalissa, Iowa, and subsequently became the teacher at Centerdale.

In June, 1895, she was married to Joseph Worrall, and came to the farm near Centerdale, where she lived until less than a year ago. After some months in West Branch and in West Liberty she spent a few weeks in visiting, with her husband, old friends and members of her family.

Her death occurred at the home of an old and beloved friend, Attie Fawcett Kincead, at Whittier, Iowa, Friday afternoon, Jan. 27th, at 5:30.

She is survived by her husband, Joseph Worrall, sons, Eugene Worrall of Houston, Texas, Leland and Edward Worrall of West Liberty, also by one sister, Grace P. Eaton, of Pittsburg, Pa., and two brothers, Edward C. Plumly of Chicago and Dwight A. Plumly of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Anna Worrall's life was wonderfully distinguished by thoughtfulness for others and by forgetfulness of self. Her religious faith was pure and strong and sweet. She was one of the founders of the Centerdale church and was always a willing and effective worker, not only for it, but for all religious and charitable causes.

Her daily life was one of devotion and of service. The Centerdale community was very dear to her, and the place she held in it, and the lives of its people can never be filled. Her life found its highest expression and consecration in her love, for her home, for her brothers and sisters, her husband and her sons.

Her first thought and her last were for them. In the noblest and the highest sense she lived in the love of her Master a truly Christian life as wife, as mother, as sister, and as friend.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the home of William Thomas, conducted by Rev. John Frederick.