Quick, Esta Maria Coons – 1862-1935

COONS, JOHNSON, MATHIES, MULLINS, QUICK

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/8/2016 at 15:57:54

Services For Mrs. H. Quick Held Sunday
Burial Took Place on Her Fifty-fourth Wedding Anniversary
Short funeral services were conducted at a Newton funeral home Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Hugh Thompson Quick, a former resident of Monroe, with Dr. Leslie B. Logan, pastor of the Newton Methodist Episcopal church in charge. Last rites were conducted from the Methodist church in Monroe at 2 o’clock with Dr. Logan, assisted by Rev. Raoul R. Moser of Monroe, in charge.
Music was furnished by a mixed quartet composed of Mrs. O. M. Wilson, Mrs. Mark I. Shaw, H. W. Cash and Carl Ammer. “City Four Square” and “God Be With You,” were the selections used. Mrs. Ammer was accompanist.
Pall bearers were Clyde Fouch, Robert Finn, Lute Burchinal, Tom Cooper, M. C. Cramer and Arthur Palmer. Interment was in the Monroe cemetery.
Mrs. Quick died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Mathies, where she had made her home for the past two years. Mrs. Quick had been in ill health for some time, from tuberculosis and complications.
Mrs. Esta Maria Quick
Esta Maria Coons was born in Marysville, Marion county, Iowa, Aug. 21, 1862, and departed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Mathies in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, March 21.
On March 24, 1881, she was married to Hugh Thompson Quick. To this union six children were born, two of whom died in infancy. The four living children are Henry C. Quick, Newton; Mrs. Herbert Johnson, Monroe; Mrs. Carl Mullins of Center Point, Iowa, and Mrs. Mathies of Cedar Rapids.
Mr. and Mrs. Quick spent their early married life in Marysville. In 1897 they came to Monroe and resided in this community for twenty-four years. In 1921, Mr. and Mrs. Quick moved to Newton where Mr. Quick died Feb. 17,1923. Mrs. Quick continued to make her home in Newton until in October of 1932, when she went to Oakdale Sanitarium as a tubercular patient. Almost two years later she went to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Mathies.
Mrs. Quick was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She exemplified her religion and her membership in the church by her untiring activities as a worker in the Sunday school, the Ladies Aid Society and by rendering service wherever her help and encouragement were most needed. She was also an active member of the Rebekah Lodge and the W.R.C.
Her children are joined in their sorrow by two living brothers, C. E. Coons of Oskaloosa and Henry Coons of Canton, Oklahoma. There are also nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Source: Monroe Newspaper Unknown; __ March 1935 (tombstone says 1862-1935)