Livingston, Mrs. Edward (Lizzie) (1890-1932)

LIVINGSTON, WEEKLY, MEIER, THOMAS, TRANSBERRY, COOVER, CHENEY

Posted By: Deb Bennett-Jónsson (email)
Date: 7/8/2010 at 16:33:53

Newspaper: WMS JT
Posted: June 2, 1932

MOTHER OF SIX DIES THURSDAY
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Mrs. Edward Livingston’s Life-Thread Snaps without Warning and Community Mourns
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NATIVE OF GENOA BLUFF
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Funeral Service Saturday. Attended by Large Gathering of Sympathetic Friends
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Mrs. Edward Livingston of Troy passed away suddenly on Thursday evening while at the home of a neighbor; death was caused by an attack of heart trouble, coming with a suddenness that imparted a shock to the several communities in which she was so widely known.

She is survived by the husband and six children: Mrs. Iola Elizabeth Weekly and Leona Catharine; Melvin Angus, Eugene George, Edward Deane, and Joice Elaine of the home. Besides these, she leaves her father, Karl F. Meier of North English, four sisters: Mrs. Bert Thomas of Pilot; Mrs. Cross Transberry; Mrs. George E. Coover of Marengo; Mrs. Merle Cheney of Cedar Rapids, and one brother, George H. Meier of Van Horne and one grandchild and a host of other relatives and friends.

The funeral service was held at 2 o’clock Saturday at the Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg, conducted by the Rev. Jas. B. Hodgson, assisted by a quartette composed of Mrs. James B. Hodgson, Mrs. R.E. Jones, Mrs. O. G. Jones and Mr. Elmer Pugh. Mrs. Elmer Pugh presided at the piano.

The sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Hodgson followed the Scriptural selection and the message was one to be long remembered, filled with sympathy and consolation for the stricken family, and a deserved tribute to the splendid life of the deceased.

The interment was in Oak Hill and the pallbearers were Thomas L. Jones, George Welsh, Fred Boland, Lue Joseph, Ross Strike and J.V. Driscoll.

The funeral was attended by a gathering that represented many neighborhoods, while expressive of the deep sympathy inspired by the calling of this exemplary wife and mother from her home and children and at the time she was needed most.

Lizzie Meier, second eldest of Mr. and Mrs. Karl F. Meier, was born at Genoa Bluff on June 22, 1890. She attended the rural school and on September 30, 1909, she was united in marriage with Edward Livingston, and the home was made on the old Livingston farm where it was continued for 23 years; six children were born to this union, all living to share with the husband and father the loss that all must feel. And the old community in which the good woman spent all her married life deeply feels its common loss in the untimely death of Mrs. Livingston.

She was a lovable woman and found her greatest joy in ministering to the care and needs of her family, a labor that was surely a labor of love. Early in life she was baptized as a member of St. Johns reformed church north of Genoa Bluff. After her marriage she united with the Presbyterian Church Williamsburg and this was her spiritual home until the end.

Mrs. Livingston was a woman of great qualities, the type in which the family, the church and the state can place their lasting dependence. In the round of duties through all the seasons she was accompanied with the cheer of summer and in every obligation she was as faithful as the daylight.

She passed away in the early summer of her life, and the old home community bowed its head in a common sorrow and extends to the bereaved husband and family it’s tenderest sympathies.