Harriet Ann (Brock) Hunter (1930)

HUNTER, BROCK, FASTLE, SILZER

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 1/19/2007 at 17:39:18

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
September 18, 1930 – page 2

MORTUARY

Harriet Ann Hunter

Harriet Ann Brock, daughter of the late Jonas and Elizabeth Brock, was born at Winterset, Iowa, February 5, 1856, and passed away at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines, on September 8, 1930, at the age of 74 years, 7 months and 3 days.

She was converted at an early age, and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which her father was one of the early pioneer preachers of Iowa.

On October 17, 1875, she was united in marriage with William A. Hunter, of Johnston county. To this union were born eight children: Dora, Frank, Cora, Charles, Nellie, Ralph, Harry and Fred. Dora and Frank having passed on before.

Mrs. Hunter was a good woman, a good citizen, and good wife, and a most excellent mother.

For some time preceding her death, Mrs. Hunter had been in ailing health, suffering from an ailment which medical skill seemed powerless to overcome. It was believed that an operation might give relief, but the operation was said to have been too late, a malignant growth having progressed beyond the remedy of medical skill.

She was truly a pioneer, being among the first children to be born in Winterset. There are left to mourn her departure, her husband, William A. Hunter, and her children, Mrs. H. V. Fastle, Ralph, and Fred Hunter, all of Earlham; her sons, Charles, of Marshalltown, and Harry, of Des Moines, and Mrs. H. F. Silzer, of Peoria, Illinois. Two brothers, Frank Brock and Charles Brock, of Des Moines, also survive her.