Flossie McDowell, 1903-1926

MCDOWELL, LARUE, SEEMANN, SHELTON, HISER, ARTHAUD

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Date: 4/2/2013 at 06:57:16

Flossie McDowell, aged twenty three years, one month and eighteen days, died at six o'clock Saturday evening, March 6, 1926, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDowell, north of Spencer. Flossie had been in ill health for over a year and for several weeks last year was a patient in Chicago under the care of Dr. Irons, a specialist in her particular case. During her stay in the hospital and in the months which followed while her strength gradually failed she kept her undaunted courage, her unusual patience and her rare cheerfulness. Her many friends and callers never found her anything but cheery and happy and she showed her appreciation of these visits by urging them to come see her. Flossie was sociable and the companionship of her countless friends meant much to her, making her shut-in state a hard one, but borne with the same cheerfulness which she displayed in her months of suffering. Although in the dawn of young womanhood, with the promise of a happy and useful life before her, possessed as she was of talents which lend themselves to the establishment of a happy home or a successful art career, still she expressed herself as ready to go.

Flossie was born January 16, 1903, at the home north of Spencer, where she spent her entire life. She attended the rural school near there until she entered high school. The four years of high school life were spent in Spencer. She graduated with the class of 1922, of which LeRoy Arthaud, her fiancee, was also a member.

Since leaving school she has been at home but had hoped to perfect plans for a study of art, in which she was skilled, making a beginning by taking a correspondence course in this life. Her illness prevented the completion of these ambitious plans.

She leaves to mourn their loss her parents, three sisters and three brothers. The sisters are Mrs. Maude LaRue of Greenville, Mrs. Gladys Seemann of Spencer and Mrs. Beulah Shelton of Brainwood, Wisconsin. The brothers are Virgil, Verne and Gaylord McDowell. Her grandfather, J.W. McDowell, lives at Greenville and Mr. and Mrs. William Hiser of Kankakee, Ill., are also surviving relatives. Among the relatives from out of town at the funeral were Mrs. L.R. Delliback and Miss Bessie Hiser, aunts, and William Hiser, Jr., an uncle, all of Yankakee, Ill., J.W. Brooker, Jesse and Mrs. Elmber Brooker, an uncle and cousins of Forest City, Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Booker and son, Charles of Fairmont, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. F.T. Tompkins and two children of Spirit Lake.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon. A short prayer service at the home was conducted by the Rev. E. Hammerle, pastor of the Methodist church of Fostoria, followed by a service at the Methodist church at Spencer. The music was in charge of the choir of the Fostoria church. Interment was made at the Riverside cemetery at Spencer.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; March 10, 1926.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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