Pearl Rebecca (Powell) Harper (1927)

HARPER, POWELL, CREGER, CLIFTON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/16/2011 at 15:26:10

Winterset Madisonian – February 3, 1927
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Mrs. Wheatley Harper of Monroe township died at the Mercy hospital in Des Moines Tuesday evening, February 1st. She was taken to the hospital a week ago and on Monday underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Harper would have been forty-six years old this month and had lived most of her life near Peru.

She is survived by her husband; one son, Maynard, of Monroe township; a daughter-in-law and grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Creger of Ogden and Mrs. Jim Clifton of Peru; and three brothers, Will Powell of Lorimor, S. S. Powell of Winterset and Melbourne Powell of Minnesota.

Funeral services will be held at the Winterset Catholic church Friday morning at 10:00 o’clock. Interment will be made in the Peru cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian – February 10, 1927
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Pearl Rebecca Harper, daughter of Oren and Mary Powell, was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, on February 17th, 1881. When she was two years old, she came with the family to Old Peru in Madison county. There she attended school and spent her girlhood and young womanhood. She was married to Wheatley Harper on October 5th, 1898. To them one son was born, Maynard, who lives near them.

After their marriage they lived near the old Harper home in Monroe township and later in the Barney neighborhood.

She has been a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic church in Winterset for the past twenty-four years. She has been wonderful in her kindness, neighborliness and love for others and had been an ideal wife and mother.

She passed away in Mercy hospital in Des Moines after a brief illness on February 1st, 1927, aged forty-five years, eleven months and 15 days. She leaves, beside her husband and son, one grandson, three brothers, Will Powell of Lorimor, Sam Powell of Winterset and Melvin Powell of La Porte, Minnesota, and two sisters, Mrs. Julia Clifton of Peru and Mrs. Cynthia Creger of Ogden.

Many relatives and sorrowing friends attended the funeral, which was held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from St. Joseph’s church in Winterset. Father Plunkett celebrated the Requiem Mass, and in the course of his sermon extended sincere sympathy to the bereaved family. Interment was in the Peru cemetery, Father Plunkett blessing the grave and finishing the burial service there.

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