Hattie Parmenter
PARMENTER, MUNGER, BARKER
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Date: 4/2/2018 at 21:00:52
The Marion Register Friday April 25, 1902
Miss Hattie Parmenter.
This afternoon at 2:30 the funeral services of the late Miss Hattie Parmenter were held at the residence of her brother, S.A. Parmenter, on south 12th street. In noting her death the Waterloo Reporter of Wednesday evening said:
Miss Hattie Parmenter died this morning at 12.35 and the transition of her mortal spirit to other relms mark the passing of a noble woman.
She was in her 42nd year.
Miss Parmenter was taken sick with winter cholera nearly tow moths ago. The complaint soon developed into a serious malady, and she grew steadily worse. The best professional skill of the country was called to her aid, but to no avail. Hope was not abandoned, however, until Sunday night, when a rapid sinking spell foretold the end was near. The relatives were summoned, and those most dear and near to her anxiously watched at her bedside for several hours while the light of life slowly paled, then dimmed and at last peacefully went out.
Hattie Parmenter was born Nov. 12, 1860, in Marion, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. After the death of her father she and her mother came to Waterloo in 1894 and made their home with her sister, Mrs. N.O. Munger at 625 East Fourth street. Two years later the mother died, and within a brief lapse of time the sister, Mrs. Munger was also called away. Miss Parmenter then took charge of the bereaved home, giving to the children a mother's love and a sister's companionship. She devoted her life to this task and endeared herself not only to the family, but to all who knew her.
The close of this beautiful and consecrated life is crowded with the tenderest memories of relative and friend. Few women are endowed with the attributes that win affection and regard in the degree which Miss Parmenter possessed them. Her life aim was to make those about her happy, and no effort of hers which would contribute to this end was considered a treat. In the family circle her place was hallowed by the most earnest endeavor to provide for the children deprived of a mother's love and care all that could be given by human hands. How well she accomplished her noble mission need not be told, for her whole life was in the effort, which directed with all the tenderness of a loving heart, all the compassion and kindness of a disposition that knew naught but cheerfulness and sunshine. Her life was the embodiment of womanly perfection, and she lived every day a life that was gracious, helpful and most benign in its influence for good.
To the many friends which this noble woman's character attracted her death will be mourned as a personal bereavement. The tears of friends will be mingled with those of relatives o'er her bier, and all will pay tribute to the worth of her friendship. The world was better because Miss Parmenter lived in it, and it is poorer now because she is gone.
The relatives who survive her are two brothers, S.A. Parmenter of Marion, Lyman Parmenter of Boone, together with their families and the children of N.O. Munger.
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