Anna Frye 1888-1913

FRYE, SCHOENIG, EIS

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 9/9/2012 at 21:09:33

Miss Anna Frye was born in Louisa county, March 9, 1888, and died July 21, 1913. The funeral services were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schoenig, 420 East Third street, Muscatine, Ia., July 24, and were attended by a large number of relatives and friends. Rev. E.R. McCorkle, pastor of the First United Brethren church, had charge of the funeral. The services were very impressive. The pallbearers were as follows: Charles Schoenig, Clarence Eis, Wesley Schwalm, Fred Schoenig, and Henry G. Schoenig. The interment was made in Greenwood cemetery.

Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frye, she is survived by three sisters and two brothers, as follows: George, Everett, Mrs. Schoenig, Mrs. Clarence Eis, and Miss Cora, at home.

To the memory of the late Anna Frye this tribute is dedicated and presented to her grief-stricken friends, by one of them. It is indeed a most tremendous, as well as a very sacred, task to pay a fitting and just tribute to this great soul who in her short journey upon earth caught the beauty of sunshine and flowers, and was enraptured by the sweet and innocent laughter of childhood. As a daughter and a sister, she was loving and trustworthy, always ready to aid and provide cheer and comfort for all those who are so much in need of aid and encouragement in the hours of sorrow, drudgery and lonesomeness. Though weary and worn in body, her soul beamed and sparkled rays of good cheer and kindness. Oh, Lord! Thou who doeth all things well, how hard it is for us to yield to Thy bidding. It seems so impossible to understand Thy ways. How hard, oh Lord! It is to part with this great young soul, whose mission in life seems to have just begun. The stars of the sky, the bloom of the roses, the sweet warble of the birds, will join in a grand chorus and sing the lastingness and beauty of her kindness as daughter, sister and friend.

As a friend and neighbor, it was but yesterday that we worked side by side, hand in hand with you; but dear Anna, our friend, you are gone. We are here and we must do what you would have done. We know the virtues and high principles you cherished. We feel that a word of good cheer and comfort to those who have been visited by that much-dreaded foe, Death, will be cheerfully accepted. How often we have heard the expression fall from the lips of a sad and broken-hearted soul, "Sister is gone." How little did we realize its meaning then. Now Sister Anna is gone. It strikes home; it tears through our very soul without mercy. It is our sister, whose supreme delight it was to make our life sweet, happy and useful. It is so comforting to know that you have the hopes of meeting sister again. 'If only in this life we have hope," we are of all men most miserable. Anna, you have crossed that dark river. You are happy in the city which hath no need of the sun whose builder and defender is God. While you have made the world most bright by kindly words and deeds, as the blossoms call for Nature's light, so all your sunshine need. May you rest in the blessed peace.

Source: Newspaper clipping, no date.