STRONG, Kate (HINER)

HINER, STRONG, TODD, BRENIZER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/11/2015 at 02:20:30

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

Obituary.

KATE HINER STRONG was born near Stanton, Virginia, Feb. 21, 1844, and died in Geary, Oklahoma, Jan. 28, 1931, aged 86 years, and 11 months and 7 days.

She was the daughter of JACOB HINER and RACHAEL TODD. When she was eleven years of age the family moved to Iowa, where the mother died in 1859. She was married to JOHN D. STRONG on Feb. 14, 1864, in Decatur City, Iowa, living near there until 1900 when they went to the Oklahoma country, settling 15 miles west of Geary. In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. STRONG moved into town and spent the remainder of their lives in their home on Southwest Boulevard . They celebrated their golden wedding Feb. 14, 1914. Mr. STRONG died Jan. 30, 1924. To this couple were born nine children, three sons and six daughters, 9 children together with 21 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. MARY BRENIZER lived to mourn her passing, One daughter died just as she was reaching young womanhood.

Mrs. STRONG was a woman of many talents. She had a keen wit, was an entertaining speaker and possessed a memory unusual even among much younger people. She was a correspondent to the Leon Reporter for years, contributing articles that gained for her much praise, not only from the editor bur from the readers of the paper everywhere. She was interested in all questions of the day and was a faithful member of the P. E. O. sisterhood, the Rebekah Lodge, the Priscilla club of Geary, Oklahoma, and the aid society of the Christian church also.

She was a friend in whom one could trust and rely upon, to sympathize in whatever came to you. To those who were with her in the last few weeks she expressed herself as having never lost faith in God and that even thought the mysteries of life and death were beyond any reasoning grasp of her mind, she as willing to rest on the thought that in everything she had done the best she could and that there was more in prayer than we could know. In the obituary of her father who died in 1899, she wrote of his christian life here; ending by saying that all who loved him would strive to meet him on God’s great farm above. The verse with which she closed the tribute may well be said of her:

They dear old hands have borne
Their load of wary toil far on life’s road.
Oh, rest thou loving and faithful heart,
And in memory shall often sweep
O’er hearts that listen by to weep.

[Interment was made at Geary Cemetery, Blaine County, Oklahoma.]

Transcription and submission by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur