Sarah Ella (Cassidy) Heizer (1919)

CASSIDY, CHANDLER, HEIZER, JONES

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 3/19/2010 at 19:23:48

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 17, 1919
Page 1

Mrs. Ella Cassidy Heizer

Few are the women to whom has been given so deep desire to serve others with the talents necessary for such service as has been evidenced in the long and useful life of Mrs. Ella Cassidy Heizer whose death occurred on Sept. 8th at her home in Dexter.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Cassidy, real Scotch pioneers came to this county in 1864 from Zanesville, Ohio. Mrs. Heizer attended Winterset's public schools but began early her life work as a teacher. As a county school teacher, she grew to love her profession and further equipped herself by graduating from Quincy College in Illinois.

As a teacher in this city she gave instructions to many of its older men and women found in her a severity and nobility that sprang from her Christian character. For two years she labored among Frenchmen in New Orleans and Selma, Alabama.

Then her marriage to Rev. A. M. Heizer in 1887 brought to her the responsibilities of a minister's wife. For five years this happy marriage continued and then his death occurred and just one year later Mrs. Heizer left for Alaska. There she became a worker with the native Alaskans in the Sitka Training School now known as the Sheldon Jackson school. Sixteen years of service as a teacher in Alaska caused a breakdown in health and she resigned.

After a years rest, Mrs. Heizer again began her labors with the natives this time in Shakan. For the greater part of this period she was the only white women in the village. Two years of work again broke her down and she returned home a complete nervous wreck. She located in Dexter and never recovered her strength, failing rapidly during the last two years.

Services were held on last Wednesday in the Presbyterian church in Winterset where her husband was pastor for several years. Dr. J. S. Corkey spoke appositely on the text "Well done thy good and faithful servant."

Miss Mary Cassidy, public librarian here, Mrs. Mattie Chandler of Dexter, L. L. Cassidy of Des Moines, and George Cassidy of Hubbard, Oregon and Mrs. Margaret Jones of Winterset survive their sister.

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