East, Nancy E. (1862-1929)

EAST, BISHOP, MORRIS, KENT, DAVIS

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/15/2017 at 16:28:33

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, November 5, 1929

Miss Nancy E. East was born in Green county, Ind., Feb. 26, 1862, and died near Webster City in Hamilton county, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1929. She was 67 years, 8 months and 3 days old.

She came with her parents [William and Mary Margaret Morris East] to Iowa when she was a girl 14 years of age and had since lived in Hamilton county.

Miss East lived a beautiful and unselfish life. She loved to do things to make others happy. Having never married she spent her life with her parents and since the death of her mother she had made her home with different sisters and a brother. She had a particular joy in being with and caring for children, and making her own choice, usually to be in that home where there were small children.

She was a member of long standing of the Methodist church in Stanhope. She found in the services of the church a blessing that overshadowed the whole of her life. Living and dying she was sustained by the Divine presence.

Her last illness covered a period of about six weeks which she spent with her sister, Mrs. Mark Bishop, northeast of Webster City. It would seem that human strength had reached the place where no mortal hand could greatly help however skilled. So that day by day she grew weaker and weaker until last Friday at noon she found the way that leads up, out and onward into life and health and happiness.

She is survived by four sisters and one brother, one brother having died several years ago. Those surviving are: W.R. East of Stanhope; Mrs. Mark Bishop, of Webster City; Mrs. Grant Kent, of Stanhope; Mrs. Harry Davis, of Stanhope; and Mrs. T.J. [just cannot make out or guess this last name] of Des Moines. These and other relatives and a large number of friends will greatly miss her. Shall we not think of her as having outrun us in life's race and waiting on the other side?

Services were conducted from the Methodist church at Stanhope Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by the Rev. Thos. B. Collins of Webster City. Burial was in the Lawn Hill cemetery at Stanhope.