Beatrice Bernice 'Tressie' Fry Bricker (1923)

BRICKER, FRY, JOHNSON, HUTCHESON, ZELIADT

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Date: 9/21/2006 at 19:36:05

Earlham Library Obituaries, December 1923
Earlham, Iowa

Mrs. Carl Bricker Called by Death

Beatrice Bernice Bricker, daughter of George and Belle Fry was born February 8, 1923 at Earlham, Iowa, where the whole of her life has been spent. She graduated from the Earlham Academy in the class of 1911.

On December 27, 1911 he was married to Carl O. Bricker. They moved immediately to their farm in Penn Center community; here for nine years Tressie gave her best for the Penn Center Methodist church and the community, but in the early spring of 1921 the family moved to Earlham and since that time the Friends Church of Earlham has been the center of her social and religious activity. She was a capable and trustworthy worker always cheerfully accepting places of service in every department of the church work. She will be missed in all of its services and work and especially in the choir and Sabbath School where she has served so faithfully. She leaves vacant a large place in the church and in the heats of its members.

This couple was not blest with children but their hearts and home were opened to a motherless girl, Ramona Johnson and she was given the love and devotion of a true mother heart.

In the going Tressie leaves her husband, the child Ramona, the father and mother, two brothers Bert and Fred Fry, of Earlham, three sisters, Virginia Hutcheson, of Ryder, N. D., Vivian Zeliadt and Breta Fry, of Earlham and many other relatives and friends to miss the love and ministry of a life which has been strengthened and beautified by the love and grace of her Savior. Tressie Bricker has gone to her eternal home and reward but she leaves us a precious memory.
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Winterset Madisonian – January 3, 1924
Pg 7
Earlham

The funeral of Mrs. Carl Bricker was held from the Friends church on Friday afternoon. Rev. Nelson, assisted by Mrs. Lenna Lescault, had charge of the service. Such crowds of people came that many were unable to gain entrance, but waited outside. Mrs. Bricker was an active worker in the Friends church, especially gifted in music and was always ready, in the choir or at the piano, to do her best where needed most. She was the teacher of a large Sunday school class, the members of which will miss her to an unusual degree. She was also chorister of the Sunday school.

Mrs. Bricker had only been sick a short time, having been active in church and other offices around town, which makes her absence felt all the more keenly.

Mr. and Mrs. Bricker, having no children of their own, took into their hearts and home a little motherless girl, Ramona Johnson, several years ago. Mrs. Bricker, or Tressie, as she was familiarly called, always manifested a Christian spirit, helping the sick and needy and doing her part in the religious work of the church and community, and although her going is a great loss to the church and community, her reward is great for the work she has done in the name of the Master. She leaves, besides her foster daughter, a husband, father, mother, two brothers, three sisters and a host of other relatives and friends who mourn the loss of this dear one who was called from earth to heaven in her early womanhood.

Note: Burial in Earlham Cemetery, Madison County, Iowa

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