Closz, Eva Alice (1884-1916)

CLOSZ, BIERNATZKI, JEFFERS

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/25/2016 at 10:50:36

Daily Freeman Tribune, Friday, January 7, 1916

THE SAD DEATH OF MISS EVA CLOSZ

Youngest Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Closz Dies at Family Home

The community was shocked yesterday afternoon to hear that Miss Eva Closz, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. [Ida Biernatzki] Closz, old and respected residents of this city, had passed away at 3:40 o'clock p.m. of typhoid pneumonia after an illness of less than two weeks.

The young lady had an attack of grippe the middle of December which left her in a weakened condition and had a second attack, or really a relapse, the day before Christmas. She was up for the Christmas festivities, but was too ill to remain up all day and went to bed from which she never rose again. Her brother, Harold Closz, who is in his junior year in the medical school of Ann Arbor, Mich., was in the city and with a local physician took charge of the case, working night and day to stay the ravages of the disease.

Mr. and Mrs. Closz have been tried in the fires of grief during the past year, having lost in a frightful accident, a son and daughter last March.

Eva Closz was born August 9, 1884, and received a part of her education in the Webster City schools. She did not graduate, but instead took one year's work at Lincoln College, in Lincoln, Ill., where she specialized in music and education. The following year in 1912, she went to Des Moines College where she also took special training in music and elocution. Miss Closz exhibited exceptional musical ability and both sang and played in a most acceptable manner. Especially in Sunday school work at Breeze hill, near the Closz farm home, did she use her God-given talent and helped to make those services of profit and interest.

She had been an active member of the Baptist church in this city for about fourteen years and at the time of her passing was a member of the Philethea class of the Sunday school.

Those who were privileged to be her closest friends loved her for her bright happy ways, for she was of that vivacious and merry type which adds to any social gathering of young people. In church and home she will be sorely missed and the hearts of her family wrenched by the separation.

Beside the saddened father and mother, the brothers and sisters surviving are Mrs. Edward Jeffers, late of Ottumwa; Misses Mary and Irene Closz, both of this city; Carl J. and Irving M., who reside on a farm east of this city, and Harold Closz, who is attending Michigan University at Ann Arbor.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the family home on west First street, conducted by Rev. J.O. Staples, pastor of the Baptist church, and possibly Rev. J. D. Smith of Waterloo, a former pastor of the Baptist church in this city.