Pahre, Wilhelmina d. 1909

WETZEL, MORE, CARPENTER, BARTLEAK

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 1/10/2010 at 19:54:24

Grandma Pahre

Life’s Pilgrimage Ends on her 80th Birthday.

The world looks with honor upon her great generals who have achieved victories upon the field of battle. But who knows the victories of faith won by those round about us? Grandma Pahre was a conqueror. Leaving Germany where she was born she came to St. Louis when just a young woman. Here she met and married H. F. Pahre. In March 1855 they moved to Iowa and here in the wilderness with the howl of the world in her ears the conquering spirit of our sister is further shown. In the midst of the discomforts of pioneer life she raised a family of seven children all of whom survive her: William and Fred of Newton; Edward of Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. Hulda Wetzel of Murray, Iowa; Mrs. Clara More of Glen Elder, Kansas; Mrs. Mina Carpenter of Pella, Iowa, and Louesa who is still at home. Mina, Louesa and Fred were present when she passed away. But the conquering spirit of our sister is best shown in the grip that she had on her own life. Although suffering intense pain, she never complained. Patient and kind always, her faith grew more beautiful with her years and when she died, it was with a victor’s cry that she said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.” At her own request, Jas. A. Burns of Des Moines preached her funeral sermon from this text 2 Tim. 4:6-8. She died at her home in Galesburg, Iowa, on her 80th birthday (Feb. 5)

Her pallbearers were old friends and neighbors: Harman Rhordanz, S. N. Holden, Geo. Perry, Lew Carpenter, Henry Kling and Chas. Weideman.

Her life has been a benediction upon ours. Her faith in God has already inspired us and we will live closer to Him than we have before.

“Therefore we murmur not,
Heaven is her home;
Whate’er her earthly lot,
Heaven is her home;
And she shall surely stand
There at her Lord’s right hand;
Heaven is her fatherland,
Heaven is her home.”

Newspaper Unknown.

Transcriber note: This report says Grandma Pahre but the following link give more info on this family as well as her first name. http://iagenweb.org/boards/jasper/biographies/index.cgi?review=211204