Bolsinger, Dora (Hansell) 1900 - 1921

BOLSINGER, HANSELL

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/5/2021 at 20:31:24

Elkader Register, Thur., 21 July 1921. Guttenberg column.

Dora [illegible], the second child of Marshall and Gertrude Hansell, was born February 16, 1900, in Elk township, Clayton county, Iowa, and died July 3, 1921, aged 21 years, 4 months and 17 days.

While she was but a small child her parents moved to Greeley, Iowa. Here it was her privilege to attend the public schools and to graduate from the high school in June of 1918. The following winter she returned with her parents to live in the Wayman neighborhood in Clayton county. Dora was glad to come back to the old home _____ and relatives, but was sorry that the younger children would not be able to have the school privileges that had been hers.

After helping in different homes of the neighborhood during periods of sickness and need, where her help was very efficient, she was married to Clifford Bolsinger at Dubuque, Iowa, on December 22, 1920.

Besides the young husband, her father and mother, four brothers, Lyle of Chicago, Arthur in the Navy, Raymond and Marshall, and five sisters, Minnie, Renabel, Gladys, Gertrude, and Alice, all at home, miss the bright sunshiny presence of the loved one. One brother, Rudolph, preceded her in death.

Her last sickness but short in time, was intense in suffering, every minute brought new agony and pain.

"She resteth now. No more her breast
Heaves with her weary breath,
Pain sits no longer on the brow
Where lies the calm of death.
Sunk to her rest like a tired child,
She lies in slumber deep.
Soft folded in the arms of Him
Who "loveth" His beloved sleep."