BRICKER, Dora Evelyn (1870 - 1922)

BRICKER, COX, FAMILTON

Posted By: Debbie Hartz (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

Clinton Advertiser
June 8, 1922

TRIBUTE TO MISS BRICKER

The announcement on last Sunday morning, of the death of Miss Bricker came with great sorrow to her many friends in this community.

For months she had suffered, and when suffering went beyond endurance, she bravely yielded to that one last hope, an operation, but to no avail. She never fully rallied from the anesthetic, and passed away shortly before midnight that same day.

Dora Evelyn Bricker was born in DeWitt, Iowa, April 24, 1870 and died at Mercy hospital, Clinton, IA, June 3, 1922. She was the daughter of Henry F and Elizabeth Familton Bricker. She graduated from the DeWitt High School, class of 1888. Subsequently taught three years in the Low Moor schools, after which she became identified with the DeWitt public schools, and had just completed her 30th year of service in that institution, during this time teaching three different grades, and always giving most excellent service to pupils and parents as well.

Although not a member of any church, she was a woman of Christian character, charitable and thoughtful of others. Her devotion to home and family has always been an outstanding feature of her true womanhood, and when disease fell upon her, she bore her sufferings bravely, patiently and cheerfully, thoughtful to others and unselfish to the end as she had been all her life.

She was a member of the Golden Star Chapter. No. 283, O E S also the Past Worthy Matrons Club and Chapter B G P E O sisterhood.

Surviving are an aged father, upon whom the blow falls heavily; one sister, Mrs. Lee F Cox, Wheaton, Ill, two nieces, Mrs John Sidle, Delmar, IA, Mrs Pauline Wade, Wheaton, Ill, one nephew, Percy R Bricker, St Paul, Minn, and one grand nephew Milburn Familton Wade, Wheaton Ill.

To the memory of the departed we bring this tribute of sincere appreciation of her worth and usefulness in the places which she had filled and adorned, and although stricken in the noonday of life she has left a memory that will be an inspiration for good always

"And so we have come to the journey's end

Where Time and Eternity meet and blend

Thrice blessed then - if some shall say

I live because she has passed this way."