Edna Estella Honts

HONTS, SHAFFER, REDDICK

Posted By: Gary Honts (email)
Date: 11/23/2010 at 20:30:59

Wapello Republican
Februay 10, 1916 page 1
Mrs. Edna Estella Honts
Edna Estella, wife of Stanley Honts and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Shaffer, was born at Wapello, Iowa May 4, 1884, and died at her home in Davenport, Iowa, Feb. 5, 1916 at 3:30 a.m. aged 31 years, 8 months and 22 days. She was united in marriage to Stanley Honts, Dec. 23,1898. Besides her husband and two sons Glen and Lee, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Shaffer and two brothers, Frank and Will, of Nichols, and George of Wapello; and one sister Mrs. Geo. Reddick, of Oakville, Iowa. Her father, two brothers and one sister preceded her in death.
Her entire life was spent in Wapello with the exception of a few years after her marriage, when she lived at Cone, Muscatine and Davenport.
Two years ago the 10th day of February she underwent an operation at the Davenport hospital, but her health gradually failed until a second operation was necessary in August of the same year, after which she seemed to inprove for a time. But in Septermber of the following year she was operated on the third time from which she never recovered. She has been a patient sufferer the past two years, never complaning, but always jolly and lively when not suffering intense pain. Her happy disposition won many friends wherever she lived and she died trusting in a higher power and ready to leave this life for the Great Beyond.
Funeral services were held at the First Methodist church in Wapello, Monday, Feb. 7th, at 2 o'clock. Interment was made in the wapello Cemetery.