Gertrude Gillespie Boudewyns

BOUDEWYNS, GILLESPIE, KIERNAN, BUSSANMAS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/25/2006 at 20:21:41

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
January 7, 1948

GERTRUDE BOUDEWYNS Died Sunday At 81

Mrs. Gertrude Boudewyns, member of a pioneer Crawford township family, died in Des Moines Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bussanmas, where she had been living in recent years. Death resulted from a heart attack. She was 81 years of age.

Mrs. Boudewyns was the former Gertrude Gillespie, daughter of James Gillespie, a pioneer in the Irish community of Crawford township. She was born Nov. 16, 1866. She was married Aug. 25, 1891, to Theodore Boudewyns of Des Moines and they made their home in that city until his death a few years later in a railroad accident.

She then returned to the home of her father in Crawford township. Later, she served for many years as housekeeper for her brother, the Rev. Msgr. James Gillespie of Keokuk, and after his death she served in the same capacity for the late Rev. William Hahessy, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Winterset.

Mrs. Boudewyns is suvived by her son, Ted Boudewyns, and daughter, Mrs. Bussanmas, both of Des Moines and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this Wednesday morning from St. Ambrose Catholic cathedral in Des Moines, and burial was made in that city.