Mary Anne Beck Weets

WEETS, BECK, WURSTER

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Date: 4/11/2007 at 20:21:48

MAQUOKETA MENTION
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FUNERAL OF MRS. WM. WEETS

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LAST SAD RITES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED - LONG PROCESSION OF VEHICLES TO CEMETERY.

Maquoketa, Oct. 11 - The funeral of the late Mrs. Wm. Weets, held yesterday afternoon was very largely attended. There was a long procession of vehicles and a goodly number, including the Rebekahs, turned out from here in town. The following is the obituary handed us.

MRS. WILLIAM WEETS
Mrs. Mary Anne BECK WEETS, * daughter of John and Elizabeth BECK was born in Maquoketa, Iowa, March 21, 1873, and died at her late home on Summit street, Oct. 7, 1911, at the age of 35 years, 6 months and 16 days.
She was united in marriage with William WEETS March 21, 1893, and of this union was born three daughters and three sons - Laura, 17; Matilda, 15, and Gertrude, 4; three sons, Willie, 14; Dewey, 12 and Johnny, 8.
Mrs. WEETS has always lived in and about Maquoketa, where she is well known and was a member of the local Rebekah lodge. She was christened in the Lutheran church in Andrew and at the age of 17 joined the Methodist Episcopal church in Maquoketa, in which she has always been interested.
There is left to mourn her loss the father and mother, one sister, Elizabeth WURSTER* of Bridgeport, Iowa; five brothers, John G., Christ, William, Gottlieb and Henry, who live near Maquoketa; the bereaved husband, William WEETS and the six children.
The deceased was a retiring home-loving woman with a true mother's heart and there she will be most missed. The old roof tree will never seem quite the same now that it does not shelter the loved mother. The things of earth pass away, but with the passing comes the thought that somewhere beyond the vale stretches the land of pure delight, and there an omnipotent God has made possible a reunited family to gather once more beneath the sheltering branches of the "tree of life," whose leaves are for the healing of nations.
* The original newspaper account had two errors in the names. They have been corrected in this account. This article was from the paper named above and in family records.