Mathews, Mildred G. (Becker) 1908-1930
MATHEWS, BECKER, MEYER, SCHMIDT
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Date: 8/8/2015 at 03:05:00
Word was received here early Wednesday morning of the death of Mrs. Mildred Becker Mathews in Chicago at 2:45 a.m. Death was due to flu-pneumonia after a short illness. She was taken sick on Monday, March 17th but her condition did not become alarming until Friday when her father Wm. Becker was called to her bedside.
She was 22 years old on the 9th of March, and a graduate of Elkader high school in the class of 1924, and from the University of Iowa in 1928.
On June 23, 1928 she was united in marriage with Paul Mathews of Cherokee, Iowa and since they have been making their home in Chicago, where Mr. Mathews was employed by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Her body will be brought here Thursday night, for interment in the East Side cemetery. Complete details for the funeral have not yet been arranged.
The sympathy of the community is with the bereaved.
~The Clayton County Register, March 27, 1930
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Added by Reid R. Johnson 9/27/2022:
Elkader Register, Thur., 03 Apr. 1930.
March 09, 1907, there came a little daughter, Mildred Gertrude, to gladden the hearts and home of her parents, Wm. Becker and Mollie Schmidt Becker. May 1913 this home was broken by the death of the wife and mother. Then came to keep the home and care for the daughter, her grandmother, Mrs. John Becker, Sr., and aunt, Carrie Becker, under whose guidance she grew to young womanhood and graduated from the Elkader high school in 1924.
The same year she entered the state university at Iowa City where she became a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, and from which she graduated June 04, 1928. June 23, the same year she was united in marriage with Paul Mathews, of Cherokee, Iowa, the culmination of their school days romance. They have since made their home in Chicago. March first they established their own home, where on March 9th she, with her parents, celebrated her twenty-third birthday and on March 26th, her father's birthday, the Angel of Death entered and ended the happy life so auspiciously begun.
She is mourned by the stricken young husband and his family; her father and second mother, Minerva Meyer Becker to whom she has been a beloved and loving daughter, her numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and a wide circle of her girlhood friends and later acquaintances to whom she had become endeared by her winning personality.
Her remains were brought here from Chicago Friday forenoon and services were held the following day at one-thirty in the home of her parents and at two o'clock in the Evangelical church. Interment was made in the East Side cemetery, the Rev. C. H. Franke officiating.
Relatives and friends who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mathews, Cherokee, Ia.; Fred Mathews, Boone, Ia.; A. M. Mathews, Sioux City, Ia.; Grace Mathews, Chicago; J. E. Tolbott, Brooklyn, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Glynn, Parkston, S.D.; Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Meyer, Evanston, Ill.; Mrs. Griffen, the chaperone, and several sorority sisters from the Delta house at Iowa City.
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