Johanna Eiten Meyer, 1868-1924

MEYER, EITEN, ROSKENS, WINTERBOER, BEVING

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Date: 1/24/2012 at 17:21:20

Mrs. W. S. Meyer died at her home at Fostoria, December 30, 1924, as the result of a prolonged illness of two months duration. She was sixty-six years, ten months and two days of age.

Johanna Eiten was born at Camfren, Germany, February 28, 1868. As a small child she came over from Germany with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eite Eiten, and located at Silver Creek, Illinois. Later on they moved to Grundy county, Iowa, moving finally to Clay county, Iowa, where she lived for about thirty-seven years.
She was united in marriage to Mr. W. S. Meyer in the fall of 1879 in Holland, Grundy county, Iowa. This union was blessed with ten children, two of whom have preceeded the mother to the life beyond. Eight children are still living, four sons and four daughters. These are: Messrs. E.W. Meyer, S.W. Meyer, Tubbert Meyer and Bernard Meyer; and Mrs. Dick Roskens, Mrs. George Winterboer, Mrs. John Beving and Mrs. Conrad Winterboer. All eight children are married.

Johanna Meyer lived, with her husband, about thirty-five years near the Reformed church and of late years within the city limits of Fostoria. She was a member of the Reformed Cromwell church from the time at its organization in 1893, about thirty-two years ago. Hers was of the faith upon which churches are founded, and it was in sublime assurance and confidence that she must have passed away. In her two months of illness, she exercized the greatest possible patience and manifested her usual sweet and calm disposition.

Those who are left to mourn her departure are: a bereaved husband; one brother and two sisters; four sons and four daughters; and twenty-nine grandchildren and other relatives, all of whom deeply appreciate the kindness and sympathy of all their friends in their deep trouble.

A short prayer service was held at the home at Fostoria at one o'clock Thursday afternoon, followed by funeral services at two o'clock at the Reformed church near Everly, which were in charge of Rev. Schaefer and Rev. J. N. DeVries of Everly. Burial was in the church cemetery near by.

Source: The News-Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; January 8, 1925.

Interment in First Reformed Church cemetery
 

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