Emma Eliza (McMichael) Bennett (1927)

BENNETT, MCMICHAEL, BRICKER, BEERBOWER, ALLEN, HARDY, HATFIELD

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/21/2011 at 11:01:27

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 17, 1927, page 1

Mrs. L. C. Bennett of Madison township died Tuesday afternoon, February 15th, after an illness of several years. Mrs. Bennett has been ill for the past four years, having had cancer, and she later had a broken hip. The deceased was 48 years old.

Funeral services were conducted at 10:30 this morning by Rev. James Wall of De Soto at the Fairview church. Burial was made in the Montpelier cemetery near Patterson.

Mrs. Bennett is a daughter of Mrs. Mary McMichael of Patterson, and has been a resident of this county for many years. She is survived by her husband, and two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Bricker and Elsie at home.
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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 24, 1927, page 3

Emma Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of James R. and Mary E. McMichael, was born near Bevington, Iowa, December 24th, 1878. She grew to womanhood in this community and married Leander Calvin Bennett, January 15th, 1900. To this union were born two children: Dorothy M. Bricker and Elsie Mae Bennett.

She was baptized while an infant in the Patterson Methodist church. She later transferred her membership in the Fairview Methodist church in 1921 under the pastorate of Rev. L. R. Shannon.

She loved her home and managed it with ever scientific hands. She was a kind and loving neighbor and leaves a vacant place that cannot be------. Although suffering for almost two years, she put her trust in God, and longed for the time when he could call her home. Often in her suffering she would say, “I can’t see why I can’t go home now, I am ready and want to go.” Her intense suffering only brought out the more vividly the greatness of her faith in the Lord. She lived to hear the testimony of her son-in-law’s faith. “I hear the little bells of heaven ringing, calling me home,” and to comfort Dorothy when her husband, Clarence Bricker, was called to the world beyond last December. The true Christian spirit was shown by the daughter in helping the father care for the invalid in the home. Dorothy divided her time between her own and that of her mother’s home so that she could help render every assistance to the mother’s needs. At the death of her husband her sorrow found an outlet in imparting sympathetic service to her mother in the hour of her greatest need.

We cannot always answer the why of things, but it is beautiful to witness in the presence of loss and suffering the presence of faith, hope and love that goes out to man in gladsome service and up to God in a victory that overcomes the world.

She is survived by her husband and two children; her mother, Mrs. Mary E. McMichael; two brothers and three sisters, James R. McMichael, Mrs. H. W. Beerbower and Mrs. R. E. Allen of Winterset, Thomas R. McMichael of St. Charles and Mrs. I. W. Hardy of Patterson; two half-sisters, Jennie Hatfield, and Anna McMichael’ one half-brother, Willie McMichael, and a number of other relatives and friends.

She departed this life February 15th, 1927, at the age of 48 years, 1 month and 22 days.

Funeral services were at the Fairview Methodist church Thursday, February 17th at 10:30, in charge of the pastor, Rev. James Walls, interment was made at Patterson. There the pastor was assisted by Rev. Frank A. Moore of the Patterson Methodist church.

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