Netta Stanford Leeper (1923)

LEEPER, STANFORD

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/4/2007 at 16:06:18

Earlham Echo, Earlham, Iowa
May 1923

NETTA LEEPER

Netta Stanford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stanford was born October 15, 1878 in Polk County near Des Moines and died at her home south of Earlham on May 6, 1923.

When 10 years of age she moved with her parents to Madison County near Earlham where she has since lived with the exception of a few years spent in Dallas County.

She was one of the two in the first graduating class of the Earlham Academy, graduating in June 1896. Her only classmate, Harry Hill, preceded her in death by only six weeks.

She was a successful school teacher for six years teaching in Dallas and Polk Counties.

On March 16, 1904 she was married to Harry L. Leeper at Dexter, Iowa. To this home she has given nineteen years of the best that she had to give and her home was always her greatest inspiration. She loved to sit and work for hours making beautiful fancy work with which to adorn her home.

Into this home one child, a daughter, Harriet, was born on November 2, 1914, about whose life for eight short years the mother has heaped all the love and devotion that was her to give.

In 1914 she together with her baby daughter was baptized and joined the Methodist Church at Dexter. A few years laer she transferred her membership to the Penn Center Methodist Church.

Although a constant sufferer since sixteen years of age she has kept in contact with and assisted in church activities and the activities of her neighborhood, successfully filling her station in life, and during the last eight years doing things which taxed her strength seemingly beyone her physical endurance. During the past three months she has been confined to her home, during which time she suffered much, but through it all she was patient and cheerful and was always appreciative of each act of kindness shown to her.

Note: Burial was at Penn Center cemetery.