Mary Gertrude (Hull) Husted Dowler (1955)

DOWLER, FISHER, HULL, HUSTED

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/3/2007 at 19:53:49

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 24, 1955

GERTRUDE HUSTED DOWLER
Rites For Pioneer Resident At Truro

Final rites for Gertrude Husted Dowler were held Monday afternoon, Aug. 22, 1955, at the Kale Funeral home in Truro.

Mrs. Dowler died Aug. 20, at the Clarke County hospital, in Osceola. She was 86 years of age.

The daughter of James and Jane Hull, she was born in Ohio township of Madison county, on Jan. 21, 1869.

She was a member of the Church of Christ at Osceola, the Royal Neighbors, Rebekah and Pythian Sisters lodges.

On March 22, 1890, she was married to Robert S. Husted. Mr. Husted died in 1913, and 20 years later, on March 18, 1933, she was married to Hamilton R. Dowler.

Mr. and Mrs. Dowler lived in Wyoming until his death in 1941, when she returned to Truro to make her home.

Surviving are three children, Mrs. Donovan Fisher of Menlo Park, Calif., two brothers, Miles and Eugene Husted of Truro; 8 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 11 step-children.

Officiating at the services Monday afternoon was the Rev. Walter E. Schilling of Truro. Burial was made in the Osceola cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: First name taken from the 1920 Federal Census.

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