Pier, Elizabeth died 1934

PIER

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 12/2/2013 at 13:49:24

Miss Elizabeth Pier died at 7:40 o'clock Sunday evening at her home, 698 Cleveland avenue. Miss Pier, a daughter, of the late Phillip and Martha Pier, pioneer Dubuquers, was a lifelong resident of Dubuque.

Following a college course she engaged in newspaper work and was employed in newspaper offices in Dubuque and Des Moines. During the World war she was located at Yonkers, N.Y., a member of the staff of the 'Hospital Review', a newspaper published by the soldiers of a base hospital. She remained there until the end of the war.

In 1913, Miss Pier represented Iowa in the woman's suffrage parade in Chicago. She was an active worker in the woman's suffrage cause.

Survivors are three brothers, Charles and Harvey, Dubuque, and Albert, Miami, Fla.; a sister, Mathilda, Dubuque. The body is at the Egelhof Home for Funerals, where services will be held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be in Linwood cemetery.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald & Times Journal
Monday, January 1, 1934