Louise Barger

BARGER, GREEN, DOWNS, WEBER, NORTH

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Date: 9/20/2018 at 08:36:26

Wapello Republican, January 10, 1935, page 4

Louise Elvira Green, eldest child of Charles H. and Ida Downs Green was born February 12, 1881, near Lenox, Taylor County, Iowa, and died December 31, 1934, at Indianapolis, Ind., having reached the age of 53 years, 10 months, and 19 days. When four years old, she moved with her parents to Dawson, North Dakota, where her early childhood days were spent. Ten years later the family moved back to Iowa and located near Oakville.

At the age of 17 years she was converted in the William Sunday meetings at Oakville and joined the Presbyterian Church of Oakville. In 1899 she was united in marriage to Eugene Barger, who passed away about five years later. After her husband's death, she lived in Chicago and for the past nineteen years, she has lived in Indianapolis.

At five years of age, she started to draw and paint pictures, and with the patient teaching of her mother and her own perseverance developed this talent until she was able to express herself in fine paintings and all kinds of decorating. While in Chicago she was a student and later a teacher in the academy of fine arts and for years followed the profession of fine China painting and almost her entire life was devoted to art. After taking up her residence in Indianapolis, she established a studio for commercial decorating and at this place did some of her best work.

She was a kind and loving daughter and a devoted sister, working side by side with her mother in the duties of the home and the care of the younger brothers and sisters, and later the welfare of her widowed mother was uppermost in her thoughts. Her cheerful disposition and her optimistic way of taking life as it came won her many dear friends. For the past three years her health failed, but she was a brave fighter and never complained.

She is survived by 4 brothers, and two sisters, John and Ferrie Green of Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Ben Weber of North Platte, Nebr., Harvey E. Green and Mrs. Fred North of Winfield and Howard Green of Wapello, besides a number of nieces and nephews.