Rebecca Isabella (Walkup) Pixler (1941)

ADAMS, ARMSTRONG, KIMER, MONROE, PIXLER, WALKUP, WELCH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 6/15/2007 at 11:52:52

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 9, 1941
Page 11, Column 5

MORTUARY

Rebecca Isabella, daughter of John T. and Nancy West Walkup was born in Metcalf county in Kentucky, Nov. 28, 1850, and departed this life on March 3, 1941 at the age of 90 years, four months and three days.

She came to Madison county with her father and family in the autumn of 1865.

On Oct. 30, 1873, she was united in marriage to Sylvester Frank Pixler near Winterset, by the Rev. J. H. Potter.

To this young couple four daughters were born, the youngest, Mary Jane, preceded her mother in death. Mrs. Agnes Kimer of Des Moines, Mrs. J. G. Adams of Waterloo, and Mrs. Marth Monroe of Martensdale.

She was raised in the Presbyterian faith and was converted at the age of fourteen when she united with the Methodist church.

Mrs. Pixler was a pioneer rural school teacher in Madison and Warren counties.

She has had many pupils to whom she has been deeply devoted throughout her life. Mrs. Pixler's teaching experience extended over a period of thirty-seven years, but five years of that time was devoted to her own three children. During sixteen years in one school in Madison county, her oldest pupil was twenty-two, and the highest enrollment for one year was seventy-two, the small children choosing the good weather, the large boys the winter months.

She leaves beside her three daughters, four grandchildren, Mrs. G. M. Armstrong of Des Moines, Mary Jane Monroe of Martensdale, Mrs. Helen Jo Welch of Earlham, and Frank Adams of Martensdale, and four great grandchildren, Susan Kay Welch, Jimmy, Jerry and Frank Adams, Jr.

The funeral service which was held in the St. Charles Methodist church on Wednesday, April 2nd at 2:30 p.m. was conducted by the Rev. M. J. Patrick of Mitchellville.

Relatives from a distance who attended the funeral were Mrs. Bess Baird of Elgin, Ill., Mrs. Lila DeWitt of Davenport, O. Pixler of Eagle Grove, Mrs. Della Harrison of Humboldt, Mrs. Blanche Harrison of Ft. Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pixler of Attica, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Maxwell of Winterset, Mrs. J. W. Nuzum and Ward Nuzum of Des Moines, and Mrs. Georgeanna Randolph of Indianola.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 10, 1941
Page 5, Column 2

St. Charles

Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Pixler of Martensdale were held in the Methodist church Wednesday afternoon of last week. The church was filled to capacity of relatives and friends of the deceased who has lived in Madison and Warren counties since her coming here from Metcalf county, Kentucky, with her parents in 1865.

For many years she taught school in both counties so had made many friends over a wide territory.

She was married to Sylvester F. Pixler in 1875, who died in 1920. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. E. Adams of Waterloo; Mrs. Agnes Kimer of Des Moines and Mrs. Martha Monroe of Martensdale. Also four grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.

She is the last of a large family, "The Walkup Family," who came here after the Civil War, from Kentucky, settling in South and Scott townships.

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