Charlena Eliza (Hill) Meeder Seidler (1932)

BYRNES, FREEMAN, HILL, JORDAN, MEEDER, REDDING, SIEDLER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 10/21/2006 at 20:47:28

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 5, 1932

Death Came at Creston Hospital Where She Was Taken Following Accident

Mrs. Frank B. Seidler died Monday evening, October 3, 1932 at 11 o'clock at the Creston hospital from injuries received a week earlier in a train-auto collision. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church by Reverend R. C. Cully. Burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.

Mrs. Seidler was injured September 26th in an accident when a switch engine backed into their auto. She was taken to the Creston hospital and it was found that the collar bone was broken and the pelvic bone broken in two places. She was placed in a cast, but on Saturday evening she became much worse and it was discovered that there were internal injuries. An operation was performed Monday but the injury was such that nothing could be done.

She is survived by her husband, a stepfather, J. C. Meeder of Chicago, two sisters, Mrs. A. Jordan and Mrs. Frank Freeman of Chicago and five children, Myrtle, Stanley, Walter, Ruth Byrnes and Gertrude. She also leaves three grandchildren.

The sisters arrived Tuesday evening to attend the funeral and the daughter, Miss Myrtle Seidler and Dr. William Redding of Washington, D.C., came the same night. Mrs. Byrnes and family of Marshalltown had been here the past week.

A son, Walter, who is chief engineer in the United States Navy and is stationed with the fleet at San Diego, California was unable to come.

Mrs. Seidler was 68 years of age at the time of her death. She was formerly Charlene Hill Meeder and was married to Frank B. Seidler October 17, 1889. Mrs. Seidler was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Women's Relief Corps, the Pythian Temple, the Kill Kare club and other social groups. She with several other women were on their way to attend a W.R.C. meeting in Creston, when the fatal crash occurred. None of the other occupants of the car were seriously injured.
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Coordinator's note: Full maiden name taken from daughter Ruth's Iowa Delayed Certificate of Birth. "Meeder" is taken from record of her second marriage to Frank Seidler.

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