Gertrude Seidler (1933)

BYRNES, SEIDLER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 2/5/2007 at 14:58:14

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 9, 1933

GERTRUDE SEIDLER DIES

Popular Winterset Young Lady Succumbs At Home Following Short Illness

Miss Gertrude Seidler, popular Winterset school teacher, died at the home of her father, F. B. Seidler, Saturday evening, March 4th after a short illness with pneumonia. Miss Seidler became ill Friday, February 24th with influenza and the following Wednesday afternoon pneumonia developed. This and heart trouble caused her death, Saturday evening, shortly after 5:30 o'clock.

"Gertrude" as she was familiarly known, has lived here since she was a small child. She was born in Keswick, July 4, 1902. Several months later the family moved to Chicago,---came to Winterset where they have since resided. Following her graduation from the Winterset high school with the class of 1920, Miss Gertrude attended Drake University in Des Moines. Here she was a member of the Omega Delta sorority. She taught primary for one year in Knoxville, and since that time has taught the first grade in the Winterset south ward. This was her tenth year in the local schools, and her pupils and their parents have always spoken most highly of her work.

She took an active interest in the social life of Winterset. She was an officer of Chapter AG, P.E.O. and has held an office in the local chapter of the Eastern Star. She joined the First Presbyterian church of Winterset when she was a child and has been an ardent worker in the various church organizations.

Her pastor, the Rev. R. C. Cully, conducted her funeral services, which were held in the church, Monday afternoon, March 6th at 2: o'clock, and burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

The pallbearers were F. W. Creger, A. P. Henry, Hugh Steele, Donal Lillard, Dr. H. F. Ilgenfritz, and Ralph Thompson. The grades of the south ward and Junior high were dismissed Monday afternoon so that the teachers and pupils might attend her services.

She leaves her father, two sisters, Miss Myrtle of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. E. E. Byrnes of Marshalltown, and two brothers, Stanley of Winterset and Walter of San Diego, California. Her mother died last October.

All of the family came here when informed of her critical illness with the exception of Walter, who is an officer in the U. S. Navy. He had just left port on his ship, the U. S. S. Prewitt, when the wire telling of her death arrived.

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