Maria (Hunyiker) Riser (1929)
CURTIS, FOLLETT, GILBERT, HUNYIKER, IMBODEN, RISER, WILKIE
Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 12/3/2006 at 09:58:38
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 4, 1929
Page 4Death of Mrs. John Riser
Earlham, July 2. Special – As the longest day and to the hardest task an end must come, so in the busiest and most helpful life, must “finis” be written, and under just such conditions was the record of Mrs. John Riser, closed on June 12, 1929. As was her wont, Mrs. Riser was busily engaged with her household duties when stricken with acute sickness, on Tuesday evening, and after oft expressed wish for relief from her suffering, merciful relief did come on the following afternoon.
Born in Switzerland on July 28, 1844, Mrs. Riser, formerly Maria Hunyiker, would have been 85 years old had she been permitted to continue her earthly journey for six weeks and four days longer. She was married to John Riser on November 17, 1864 and came to the United States five years later, in 1869, settling in Ohio. In 1874 the family moved to Clermont, Fayette county, Iowa, and later, in 1902, took up their residence in Earlham, Madison county.
During the sixty-five years of married life and widowhood, Mrs. Riser’s busy hands found their chief joy in laboring lovingly and unselfishly for her large family of ten children and for her life partner, from whom she was separated by death, on December 17, 1926. Three of the ten children, Alfred, Frederick and Edward, preceded their parents in death; Carrie Follett, Albert, Julia, Bertha Imboden, Lydia Wilkie, John, and Evangeline Gilbert remain together with Bessie Curtis, a granddaughter, who since early childhood shared this home, made ideal by the constant presence and influence of the mother.
All the living children were with their mother at the close of her life. Mrs. Riser was a member of the Reformed Lutheran church in her native land and while living in Earlham, was affiliated with the M. E. church.
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