Turner, Minnie Linda Westfall – 1872-1957

BURTON, POLING, TURNER, WEIRICK, WESTFALL

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 9/14/2021 at 17:15:47

Mrs. E. S. Turner, Pioneer Resident, Died Oct. 3
Mrs. E. S. (Minnie Westfall) Turner, 85, a pioneer resident of Poweshiek and Jasper county, died Thursday, Oct. 3rd at the home of Mrs. Lillian Nelson, in Newton, following a long illness.
In her active years, Mrs. Turner took a prominent part in community affairs and in a quiet way gave leadership for all the better things. She had a faculty of making lasting friends and was dearly loved by her neighbors and friends.
Minnie Linda Westfall, daughter of Lee C. and Jane Poling Westfall, was born near Monroe, Iowa, on April 25th, 1872, the third in a family of five, a sister and three brothers all of whom preceded her in death.
In 1890 she married Edward S. Turner of Colfax, Ia. To this union were born three children, a son, Harold, who died in infancy, and two daughters, Mrs. Nelle Weirick of Colfax, and Mrs. Mary Burton, ___ (text missing) ___children, survive her.
Mrs. Turner’s entire married life was spent on the farm near Colfax.
She was a charter member and first president of the Poweshiek Township women’s Cub. Also a member of Chapter BA of the P.E.O. sisterhood, and of Rose of Sharon Chapter No. 9, Order of the Eastern Star.
Several years after the death of her husband in 1931, Mrs. Turner moved to Newton where she enjoyed an apartment at Hotel Maytag until her health failed in 1944.
Most of the last ten years of her life have been spent with Mrs. Lillian Nelson in Newton.
During the time of her residence in Newton, she joined the Presbyterian church in that city under the pastorate of Dr. James Bean, later transferring her membership to the First Presbyterian church in Colfax.
Her disposition and talents may well be measured by a poem which she wrote many years ago.
(poem not transcribed here)
A prayer service was held at Newton at 1:30 Sunday with the funeral service at 3 p.m. in the Presbyterian church at Colfax, with the Revs. Frank Hladky and Walter Dutton, officiating.
Music as furnished by Howard Loehr, soloist, with Mrs. S. E Tennant, organist.
Pall bearers were John Cross, Jimmy Pease, Charles Morgan, Donald Duncan, James Smith and Gerald Bauer.
Flower committee: Mrs. E. O. Herbold, Mrs. Lillian Nelson, Mrs. Alan Herbold and Mrs. L. P. Hausner.
Burial was in the family lot at McKeever Cemetery.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Tribune; Thursday, October 10, 1957, page 1