Mead, Grace Luella (Pooler) 1976 – 1918

MEAD, POOLER, POTTER, WILLIS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/11/2024 at 12:54:32

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Aug. 2, 1918, P4 C3

OBITUARY.
POOLER.
Grace Luella Pooler, was born near Elma, in Howard Co., Ia., March 29, 1876, and here grow to beautiful young womanhood. She graduated with the first class from Elma High school in 1894. The year following, on Nov. 6, 1895, she was united in marriage to Chas. A. Mead. To them were born five children, of whom three, Harland, Inez and Robert survive to mourn her loss. Besides her husband and three children are left her sister Mrs. Cora Louisa Potter of Brien, N. Dak., and brother Archie Pooler of Rocklyn, Wash. Her mother and father, to whom she was especially devoted, and a brother, George Willis, preceded her into the Great Beyond. The deceased was united with the Congregational church when a young woman and ever lived a true, Christian life.
Too much could not be said of the beautiful life and character of the departed. Words are futile to adequately express what her family and many friends feel. Her’s was a life that does not find its culmination in death but lives on forever in the influence for good which is felt not only in her family and among her intimate friends but in the whole community in which she has lived.
She was always a faithful and loyal worker, n the Alumni association, Red Cross, the Eastern Star and especially devoted to all church work and charity work.
With the passing away of Mrs. Mead this community has lost one who was loved by all and whose life of devotion and purity h as been an inspiration to all.

We see the place where she used to stand,
We hear her step on the stair,
Her face smiles back from the mirror deep,
None sit in her empty chair.
But we smile through a thickening mist of tears.
As we know she is safe above,
By the spotless throne where the Master reigns.
For she knew that her God was love.

Her presence is with us in the day,
She guards our beds through the night,
When we sit in the gloaming she comes to us
With the mist of the waning light,
But her place is empty, and safe above
The Angel band has another soul,
To worship the God of Love.
Margaret E. Sangster.
Those present from out of town were: Mrs. Cora Potter, Brien, N. D., Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Pooler, Racklyn, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pooler, Austin, Minn., Mrs. Wm. Leslie, Ft. Dodge, Mr. A. O. Rowley, Bassett Ia., Mrs. P. N. Dwello, Low Moor, Ia., Mrs. W. W. Mead, Weber, Kas., Mrs. W. E. Doan, Monmouth, Ill., Amy Doan, Monmouth, Ill., Mrs. Fred Reetz, Mason City.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our gratitude to our many friends who by their kindness and thoughtfulness during our great sorrow have helped to assuage our grief and by their sympathy made the burden of our loss easier to bear.
C. A. Mead and Family.

Transcriber’s Note: She is buried in the Howard Cemetery.

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