Margaret (Harper) Hall (1925)
HALL, HARPER, GRIFFITH, BREEDEN, HOKE, FRITCH
Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 2/13/2007 at 18:33:25
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
1925Margaret Harper Hall
At sunrise of March 23, 1925, in the shadow of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Pasadena, California, Margaret Harper Hall’s spirit left the body of pain to be with the Saviour she accepted and loved and served from childhood and to meet the friends “loved long since but lost awhile.”
She was born at Sigourney, Iowa in 1885, the daughter of Wm. and Ruth Harper. Her father died when she was 4 years of age and her mother when she was only 12.
Her only brother Bernard Harper died in 1909.
At the death of her mother she was adopted into the family of J. J. Griffith, where she was loved and cared for as an own child.
She received her education in the Lorimor, Iowa, schools and Iowa State Teachers College and afterwards taught in Lorimor and vicinity until 1915 when she was married to Walter H. Hall and moved to a farm near Earlham, Iowa, where they lived 8 years.
In 1923 when her health began to fail, they moved to Monrovia, Cal and later to Pasadena.
Margaret Hall lived the life she professed: always kind and loving and helpful to all with whom she came in contact, always solicitous for others, even the last few hours of her life thinking of the comfort of the dear husband and mother who cared for her so tenderly. Possessed of a cheery nature she cultivated in a cheerful unselfish spirit and when she knew she could not win, her faith in God sustained her and her house was set in order even to the last detail and she was ready to go to the Home the Saviour has prepared for those who love Him.
Her foster father died in 1920 and Mrs. Griffith was at her bedside during the last months of her life to do all she could to make her comfortable.
The loved who remain are an aged grandmother and two uncles James and George Breeden, her foster mother Mrs. V. J. Griffith and foster brother Ray Griffith all of Des Moines, Iowa. Also three aunts, Mrs. Emma Hoke, of Long Beach, Cal., Mrs. Bertha Fritch, Santa Monica, Cal., and Edith Breeden, Denver Colo.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church Monday afternoon at two o’clock in the presence of a large assemblage of sorrowing relatives and old friends. The floral tributes were very profuse and beautiful. Rev. Louis Watson, a former pastor of Mrs. Hall’s conducted the service with assistance from Rev. Shannon of De Soto, and Rev. Thomas. Interment was in the Earlham Cemetery.
--------------------Winterset Madisonian – April 2, 1925
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EarlhamThe remains of the late Mrs. Walter Hall, who died in California, arrived at DeSoto Sunday. Services were held at the Methodist church and burial in the Earlham cemetery.
----------------------Winterset Madisonian – April 2, 1925
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WorthingtonMr. and Mrs. Leslie Preston and S. W. Henkle attended the funeral of Mrs. Walter Hall in Earlham Monday afternoon.
---------------------------Winterset Madisonian – April 9, 1925
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DeSoto NewsThe funeral of Mrs. Webster Hall who was brought here Sunday from Pasadena, California, where her death occurred there early the previous week, was held in Earlham, Monday at 2 p.m. conducted by her former pastor, Rev. L. E. Watson, now of Des Moines, assisted by Rev. Shannon of this place. The burial took place in the Earlham cemetery.
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