Henrietta Webber (died 1943)

WEBBER, BROWN, STONE, HUGHES, HALE

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Date: 7/9/2020 at 08:39:54

January 21, 1943 - The Anamosa Journal

Mrs. S. S. Webber, 83, died Jan. 15 at Cedar Rapids.

Funeral service was held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Smykil Funeral home by Rev. H. E. Dalrymple. Burial was at Monticello.

Henrietta Stone Brown Webber was born in the Bowens Prairie district of Jones county, the daughter of Curtis and Mary Stone.

September 11, 1878, she was married to Charles Monroe Brown. To this union six children were born, two of whom preceded her in death.

In 1909 she homesteaded a quarter section in South Dakota. On April 13, 1911 she was married to Simeon Stephen Webber at Lowell, S. Dak. He died March 21, 1913.

She then returned to Monticello and made her home with her daughter, Viola, until 1919, when she accepted a position as State agent for the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans home in Davenport.

After seven years she returned to her daughter's home in Monticello and stayed until her daughter passed away, when she went to live with her son, Burton, and his wife.

She was a member of the Cass Congregational church.

Sept. 14, 1932, she entered the "Home for Aged Women" at Cedar Rapids and remained there until her death. She leaves one daughter, Elsie Mary Brown Hughes, Dialville, Texas; three sons, George Curtis Brown, Savanna, Ill., Charles Burton Brown, Anamosa; Clarence Emerson Brown, Jacksonville, Texas; one sister, Mrs. J. K. Hale, Anamosa; seven grandchildren; two great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.