William Henry Verner, 1886-1924

VERNER, HOBBS

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/24/2012 at 17:24:32

William Henry Verner, who had been suffering with kidney trouble, producing complications, for some time, died December 31, 1924, at the University Hospital at Iowa City as the result of multiple and serious complications, which developed at that time. He was but thirty-eight years, four months and six days old at the time of his death.

He was born at Anghaacloy, Ireland, December 28, 1886, where he spent his early youth, coming to the United States in 1905. He went to Philadelphia, where he was employed as a street car conductor for a few years, during which time he was united in marriage with Miss Lena Hobbs, also from Ireland, May 18, 1910. Following their marriage, they came west for the past eleven years and had been engaged in farm work in Clay county, until poor health necessitated that he enter the hospital. William Henry Verner was well known in and around Spencer, and his death is doubly sad, in that he was a young man, scarcely in his prime, and that he leaves a large family just at the time when a father is most needed and most dear to a wife and children. Coming with high ambitions to the coveted America at an early age, he was forced to lay aside his hopes and dreams for himself and those near him, who at this time welcome the sympathy of their friends.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena Verner, and four children, Edith May, aged eleven years, Paul Pershing, aged six, Robert Wilson, aged four, and Floyd Everett, aged ten months, who will make their home in Spencer, and also by a brother, John H. Verner, of Monticello, Iowa.

Funeral services were conducted from the in the afternoon. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.

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

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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