Josephine (Wicks) Haxton (1952)
HAXTON, WICKS
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 7/29/2007 at 19:05:41
Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa]
June 4, 1952; p. 6MRS. HAXTON, 75, DIES AT EARLHAM
Funeral services were held Wednesday, May 28, at Earlham for Josephine Wicks Haxton, a long-time resident of Penn township.
Mrs. Wicks died on May 23 at Soquel, Calif. She was 75 years of age.
She was born on Jan. 28, 1877 on a farm in Warren county. As a young girl, she moved to the Pitzer community, and later attended the old Earlham academy.
She was married March 10, 1897 to Ollie Haxton at Pitzer. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1947 and he preceded her in death in 1948. They were the parents of four children.
Funeral services for Mrs. Haxton were held at the Welch Funeral home in Earlham with the Rev. S. R. Overholser officiating. Burial was made in the Earlham cemetery.
--------------------Earlham Echo - May 1952
Josephine Wicks Haxton was born in Warren county, Iowa, January 28, 1877 and died at Soquel, California May 23, 1952. She seldom used her full name, and when a signature was necessary, or among her brother and sisters and their families was called Josie, her customary name when she was a young girl. To her husband and her immediate family she was always Mama; to all the rest of the world simply Mrs. Haxton. It seems that this is important in considering her long and useful life. While she had many and valued friends her most important and only intimate life was as a sister, wife and mother, and it is only to that limited group that her full worth is known.
As a young girl she grew up in the Pitzer community and attended the local schools, among them the old Earlham Academy.
She was married March 10, 1897 to Ollie Haxton at Pitzer. They celebrated their Golden Wedding at Santa Cruz in 1947, and he preceded her in death in 1948. They reared four children and, late in life she enjoyed her three grandchildren. They were identified with the local community throughout their lives, even during their extended stay in California. The most characteristic part of her life was as a young wife and mother while they were farming near Dexter and later lived in California between 1916 and 1926. During those years she had the energy and time to interest herself in church and P. T. A. affairs and the social life incident to these activities. Her duties as a farm wife together with increasing age and some crippling injuries limited her social life in her later years on the farm. The last few years of their life together in Santa Cruz and Des Moines gave them the leisure and opportunity to develop and enjoy many friendships and pleasant associations.
Her life lost much of its motive when the husband died. She looked forward to the time when she would be with “Dad” with a cheerful matter-of-factness. She had an idea he was with her during the last week’s of her life. Now the idea is a reality.
Funeral services were conducted from the Welch Funeral home at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday by the Rev. S. R. Overholser and burial in the Earlham cemetery.
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