Huldah Ann "Annie" (Clarke) Mardis (1918)

CLARKE, GROUT, MARDIS, MERRILL

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 12/26/2011 at 10:43:53

Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, December 25, 1918
Page 1, Column 3

Death of Mrs. Annie Mardis

The announcement of the death of Mrs. Annie Mardis, widow of the late T. F. Mardis, came last Thursday from Des Moines, where she was spending the winter with her son. Death came to her without warning, as she had been as well as usual and had eaten breakfast when she fell dead about half past nine o'clock.

Funeral services were held in the Mardis home Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. Jackson Giddens. One daughter, Mrs. Hattie Grout of Los Angeles, was not present. The other children, Mrs. Anna Merrill and J. C. Mardis of Des Moines and Fred Mardis of Winterset, were in attendance.

Mrs. Mardis had lived in Winterset for 48 years, where Mr. Mardis carried on his work as contractor and builder until his death ten years ago. The Mardis home, so well known to older people as one of hospitality, was a center of good times for Mrs. Mardis, retiring and quiet in disposition, set aside her own desires and opened her home generously for many church and social affairs. During the years when he children were growing to maturity Mrs. Mardis and her husband not only enjoyed seeing young people happy, but enjoyed making them happy. She was one of the few women now living in Winterset who have been actively associated with our community life of twenty, thirty and forty years ago.

She was a long time member of the Presbyterian church of Winterset. During 77 years of life Mrs. Mardis made many sincere friends who found her true and devoted to all her associates and her death marks the passing of another old resident who will be greatly missed.
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Transcriber's note: Burial in the Winterset Cemetery.

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