Garner, Gertie (Thomson) 1867 - 1895

GARNER, THOMSON, THOMPSON, HORTON

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:25

Source: Twice-a-Week Plain Dealer October 4, 1895, FP, C4
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88059319/1895-10-04/ed-1/seq-1/

Word was received here Tuesday morning of the death of Gertie Thomson Garner, of Le Roy, Minn, at the house of her cousin, Mrs. Nellie Horton, at Northwood, Iowa, whither she went on a visit about two weeks since. She will be remembered as a daughter of Sam Thompson, now deceased, and a niece of Jas. Thompson of this place. She was a student in the public schools here for several years.

Transcriber’s Note: Her maiden name is spelled two different ways.

Source: Twice-a-Week Plain Dealer October 11, 1895, P4, C5
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88059319/1895-10-11/ed-1/seq-4/

GARNER.—At Northwood, Ia. at 1:15 p. m., Monday, Sept. 30, of typhoid fever. Mrs. F. E. Garner, aged 38 years, 8 months and 10 days.
Gertie Thomson Garner was born at Lime Spring Jan. 20, 1867, living at that place until three years of age, when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thomson, removed to Oak Dale, in 1877 they moved to Cresco where she attended school until her graduation in the class of ’84. She then returned to Oak Dale, and for a time followed the vocation of a teacher.
May 7, 1888, she was married to Frank E. Garner, going with him to Austin, Where they lived a year, then coming to Le Roy where their home had been ever since.
The circumstances of her death were unusually sad. With her two children, Paul and Amy, she had gone to visit relatives at Austin and Northwood, at which place she was attacked by the dread disease which ended her life. Everyone was deeply impressed by the sad home coming coming Tuesday.
The funeral services were conducted at the home of her mother Wednesday afternoon, by the Rev. T. N. Weaver. Most beautiful floral offerings were sent by the C. E., the village council, the cornet band and friends and schoolmates in Austin and Cresco.
In the death of Mrs. Garner our town loses a most exemplary wife, mother and friend; and the Presbyterian, of which she was a member, loses a most efficient helper. Her presence was an inspiration in every department of church work.
Her words were ever helpful and encouraging. Her piety was of a deep spirited kind and its influence was seen in a “walk worthy of the vocation wherewith she was called.” She met death calmly, peacefully, assured that for her to die would be gain.
The sorrowing husband and little ones, the widowed mother, the brothers and sister have the deepest sympathy of all our people.—Le Roy Independent.