Mrs. Wilford Hirt 1877-1917

HIRT, MEYERS, SHRADER, WENZLICK

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/16/2009 at 15:24:35

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 27 July 1917.

MRS. WILFORD HIRT DIED TODAY
Mrs. Wilford Hirt passed away last night at 7:15 at her home in Hills, Iowa, after an illness of about one year. Complication of diseases being the cause of her death.

Mrs. Hirt was 40 years of age and leaves a husband and five children, two sons and three daughters, also a mother, Mrs. Moran Meyers, of Hills, and three brothers, Moran Meyers, Jr., of west of Hills, and Jos. and John Shrader of Hills, Iowa, and one sister Mrs. Dr. Geo Wenzlick of Iowa City.

Mrs. Hirt has spent all her life in Hills, and nearby community and was well known and liked both as a kind neighbor and loving wife and mother.

The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian church at Hills. Burial will be in the Grouth cemetery. Rev. Mentier of Hills, will officiate.