DIERS, Anna 1859 - 1938

DIERS, CRILE, DOBRAS, KIENTZ, WERNER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 8/21/2021 at 19:07:20

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, February 5, 1938
Front Page, Column 3

MRS. H. DIERS DIES AT NOON
Nearly 79, Anna DIERS Was Resident Of Jefferson County Since 1859

Mrs. Anna DIERS, wife of Henry DIERS, 105 W. Madison St., died at her home at noon today. She was 78 years of age. Funeral services will be held at the Hoskins funeral home on Monday afternoon, Feb. 7, at 2:00 o'clock.

Mrs. DIERS has been a Jefferson county resident since 1865 and has lived in Fairfield for the past seventeen years, moving here from a farm near Germanville. She had been in poor health for the past two years, and seriously ill for the last ten days.

Surviving her are her husband, six children, Mrs. John CRILE of Fairfield, Mrs. Alec DOBRAS of Pleasant Plain, A. B. DIERS of Smithshire, Ill., Jacob Peter DIERS at home, Fred H. DIERS of Lockridge, and Glenn R. DIERS of Fairfield; six grandchildren.

Also surviving her are one sister, Mrs. Lottie KIENTZ of San Benito, Texas, and two brothers, Fred WERNER of Washington and David WERNER of Mt. Pleasant.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, February 23, 1938
Page ELEVEN, Columns 2 and 3

OBITUARY

MRS. H. DIERS

Mrs. H. DIERS, wife of Mr. Henry DIERS, and one of the few oldest early settlers in Jefferson County has passed away peacefully last Friday noon at her home in Fairfield Iowa. She had reached the age of 78 years, 11 months and 5 days.

(Funeral services were held Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. at Hoskins Funeral Home. The two vocal selections given were: "Abide With Me" and "In the Garden." Interment was in Evergreen cemetery with the Dr. W. F. Rex Fairfield, and the Rev. J. L. Seitzinger, of Brighton and Germanville officiating).

Mrs. H. DIERS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob WERNER was born Feb. 28, 1859 in the state of Illinois, directly across the Mississippi river from Burlington, Iowa. She was baptized in early infancy in the Lutheran church. It was during her childhood days, too, that she came with her parents from Illinois into the neighborhood of Germanville, Iowa, where she in her later years attended public school. After having been sufficiently instructed in the fundamental doctrines of christianity, she joined by the act of confirmation the Lutheran church in Germanville. This was on March 21, 1875. Her memory verse for this occasion is found in Ies. 44:22:

"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return unto me, for I have redeemed thee."

It was on Oct. 28, 1880 that she was united in holy wedlock with Mr. H. DIERS of Germanville from which union sprang six children.

Mrs. DIERS has been a Jefferson County resident since 1865 and has lived in Fairfield for the past seventeen years moving here from a farm near Germanville. She has been in poor health for the past two years. Her ailment was the result of strokes which overtook her, the first one two years ago, the second one about one week ago. It was especially during these last ten days that she took seriously sick and that her condition had called for special care.

Mrs. DIERS has shown a remarkably great measure of patience and self-resignation during the days of her illness. At no time she has voiced words of complaint willingly bearing her cross after Christ her Savior. She has been a faithful wife to her husband a kind-hearted well-providing mother for all her children a good, friendly neighbor and a faithful, humble and sincere church member. Her favorite scripture passage was the 23rd Psalm.

Surviving her are her husband, Henry DIERS, Fairfield, Iowa, her six children: Mrs. John CRILE of Fairfield, Ia., Mrs. Alex DOBRAS of Pleasant Plain, Ia., A. B. DIERS of Smithshire, Ill., Jacob Peter DIERS at home, Fred H. DIERS of Lockridge, Ia., Glen R. DIERS of Fairfield, Ia., and six grandchildren.

Also surviving her are one sister, Mrs. Lottie KIENTZ of San Benito, Texas and two brothers, Fred WERNER of Washington, Ia. and David WERNER of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

The pallbearers were: John CRILE, Alex DOBRAS, Fred DIERS, Jacob DIERS, Glen DIERS and Willard DIERS.

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Note: Buried in Lot 3rd.096. Husband Henry died in 1945 and is buried with her.