Alberta (Fosnaugh) Cochran (1930)

COCHRANE, FOSNAUGH, ORY, WITT, KENNELLS

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 1/19/2007 at 19:05:42

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 7, 1930 – page 4

Death of Mrs. Thos. Cochrane

Earlham, August 4. Special –

Mrs. Thomas Cochrane passed away Thursday evening at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines. She was operated upon for gall stones Tuesday and was considered in a very serious condition following the operation. She had been in poor health for the past few years and had gradually grown worse.

The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Cochrane was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, at the Methodist church. The services were conducted by Rev. B. W. McEldowney. Burial was in the Earlham cemetery. Mrs. Cochran leaves her husband, one son, Harry, two daughters, Mrs. Ward Ory and Mrs. Bernice Witt, five grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Kennells, of Audubon.
(Note: The correct spelling appears to be Cochran)
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Earlham Library Collection
August 1930

OBITUARY

Alberta Fosnaugh, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fosnaugh, was born at Prairie City, Jasper County, Iowa, May 22, 1865, and passed to her reward Thursday evening, July 31st, 1930, at the age of 65 years, 2 months and 9 days. On July 3rd, 1884 she was united in marriage with Mr. Thomas Cochran, of Audubon County, Iowa. To this union three children were born, two daughters and one son, Mrs. Ward Ory, of near De Soto, Dr. Harry R., of Sheldon, Iowa, and Mrs. Bernice Witt, of Earlham.

After living in Audubon County for a number of years the family moved to Missouri, where they resided for one year. In 1903 they came to Earlham, where they have since made their home. She was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Earlham on February 16th, 1913, during the pastorate of Rev. C. H. Miller. Since uniting with the church she has been constantly active, interested, and faithful to all of the various activities of the church, the Sunday School, and the Ladies’ Aid Society. She was unusually faithful in her attendance upon the services of the church and of the other organizations, because of her loyalty to them having gone many times when she was really not able to go.

In the passing away of Mrs. Cochran, Earlham losses a most excellent woman, a faithful and devoted member of her own home, of the church, the Sunday School, and of other helpful organizations of the community. Mrs. Cochran was of a kindly quiet, retiring disposition, yet her presence and influence were always helpful in very many ways. She always thought first of other people, never of herself, her own feelings or welfare.

She lived constantly in a condition of preparedness for what ever might come to her. As she went to the hospital, just a few days before her death, she went calmly and bravely, not knowing what results might await her there, yet saying that she was ready to go, if it was the heavenly Father’s will that she should go at that time.

Those who are left to mourn her loss are her husband, her three children, five grandchildren, a brother, a sister, a large number of nephews and nieces, besides many other friends and neighbors. She was a good woman. She will be greatly missed in her home, by the church and Sunday school, by her many friends and the community, where she lived.

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