Sarah M. (Lowe) Wolf

WOLF, LOWE, HOOVER, KEPHART

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 3/21/2006 at 08:00:10

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
September 27, 1928 – page 3

MORTUARY

Mrs. Sarah Wolf

Mrs. Blair Wolf died Wednesday morning, November 12, 1928. Her maiden name was Sarah M. Lowe. She was born at Boyle, Ireland, September 23, 1848. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe. In 1868 Mr. Lowe came to Cedar county, Iowa and engaged in railroad construction. The year after he sent for his wife and daughter, who made their home near Tipton, Iowa. Mrs. Wolf’s home was always in Cedar county, but after her marriage, she lived on a farm near West Branch, where she became intimately acquainted with the Hoover family and in 1903 they removed to Winterset.

Mrs. Wolf was first a pupil at a ladies seminary at Boyle, but afterwards finished her education in the city of London, England; thus it will be seen that the Lowe family were not without means as her stay in an institution of higher learning indicates. After her graduation she taught school in the city of her birth and was so employed when summoned to come to America. Arriving at her new home in Pioneer times, she soon found employment in teaching school, as she was well fitted for that profession and teachers were scarce.

Soon after the war of the rebellion she was married to Blair Wolf, a veteran of that war and in whose society she was thrown by reason of comradeship. Her marriage so soon after the war and because of her son’s service in the Spanish-American war, had the effect of arousing in the heart of the emigrant from the Emerald isle, a dominant spirit of patriotism. No one could long talk with her without drifting into conversation about those two wars of which both her husband and son were soldiers.

She was most active in the Woman’s Relief Corps at Tipton and on coming to Winterset, she became a loyal member of the Relief Corps here. Mrs. Wolf was a woman of more than ordinary intelligence and culture. She never lost her love for her native land and always had a good word for it and for her country men and women. She was a woman of predominant will power and would have made a good commander of armies had she lived in the days of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc.

She could never do too much for a cause or a companion who had gained her confidence and good will. She was a life long member of the Catholic church and in that faith she lived and died. She leaves two children, Mrs. Bertha Kephart, of Denver, Colorado, and Edwin J. Wolf, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, who with his wife, Ella, have been unsparing in ministering to her needs for the past two years. Mrs. Wolf also leaves numerous cousins residing in Iowa and Massachusetts.

There were funeral exercises at Ramsey’s funeral home on Friday by the Catholic Altar society and the Woman’s Relief Corps, and an extended obituary prepared and read by an old friend of the family, E. R. Zeller. The remains were taken to Tipton, where funeral services were held under the auspices of the Catholic ----- (unreadable)