Mary (HAYES) SCHERF

HAYES, SCHERF, HARTHAN, PALMER, ROGERS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/30/2011 at 03:28:38

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Saturday, September 12, 1942

LAKE PIONEER DIES AT HOME
Mrs. E. J. Scherf, 92, Succumbs;
Funeral Monday, 2:30 p.m.

CLEAR LAKE - Mrs. E. J. SCHERF, 92, pioneer resident of this vicinity since 1873, died at the home of her son, Will SCHERF, 221 South Second street, Friday night of the frailties of old age. For the past three years she had been confined to her bed as the result of a hip injury. Before that she was a wheelchair patient for several years because of the other hip having been broken.

Mary HAYES was born in Ohio Nov. 11, 1850, and moved with her parents [John and Margaret HAYES] to Baraboo, Wis., when a small child. After a number of years the family moved to Charles City where Miss HAYES was married to Edward J. SCHERF Dec. 25, 1869.

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In December, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. SCHERF and family started by covered wagon for Sibley to make their home but the roads were very bad and they stopped at Ventura, later buying land there and rearing their family. They withstood all the vicissitudes of pioneer life, blizzards, grasshoppers, floods and prairie fires.

In 1990 they retired from the farm and moved to Ventura where they came to their son's home in Clear Lake. There Mr. SCHERF died June 8, 1939, at the age of 90. Mrs. SCHERF has continued to live in her son's home.

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Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. SCHERF. John and Ed preceded their parents in death. Those remaining are Will, Clear Lake; Mrs. George HARTHAN and Frank and Bert SCHERF, Conasselt, Minn.; Mr.s P. W. PALMER and Milo SCHERF, Mason City; and James SCHERF, Clear Lake, Wis.

Also surviving are 38 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson, Russell Ray ROGERS, Des Moines, now 2-years-old.

Although Mrs. SCHERF had been in frail health many years, she retained her eyesight and loved to read. She took keen interest in all that went on and was especially pleased when her great-great-grandson came with his mother and others to see her more than a year ago. She was a member of the United Brethren church at Ventura.

Funeral serices will be held at the Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock, Monday afternoon with the Rev. Thomas B. COLLINS, pastor, in charge. A prayer service at Ward's funeral home will procede at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Clear Lake cemetery. Ward's funeral home is in charge.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2011

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