Anna Alice Vierling (1918)

VIERLING, BRUETT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/7/2012 at 08:27:56

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 10, 1918
Page 1

Death of Miss ANNA VIERLING

Miss Anna Vierling's death this morning at her home on East Court Avenue, is the source of community sorrow. Her serious illness became known recently, following a trip to the Mayo hospital, where the physicians advised her to return home to build up her failing strength. Since the earliest spring days, she had talked to her mother and friends of a great lassitude, which ended in a severely jaundiced condition. Failure to throw off the disease influenced her to seek specialists, but her many friends realized that her condition was most serious. Though rapidly weakening from disease, Miss Vierling's fine physique and natural strength enabled her to resist the malady, but unsuccessfully.

Funeral services will be held in the Vierling home at three o'clock Thursday afternoon.

Miss Vierling was born in Moravia, Appanoose county, but had resided in Madison county the greater part of her life. Her father, Benjamin Vierling, took up his residence in Scott township, where he reared his family, consisting of two sons and two daughters, George of Des Moines and Ernest of this county; Mrs. Mary Bruett of Laurens and Miss Anna. She attended Dexter Normal school and Cedar Falls State Normal, then taught several terms in this county. Eight years in the Winterset schools and three years in the Minneapolis city schools, gave her a wide and strong acquaintance, extended by her entrance into business circles with the purchase of Mrs. Doak's millinery shop eleven years ago, which she owned at the time of her death.

Miss Vierling was a woman of unusual qualities, strongest of all being her genuine interest in the welfare of her neighbors and acquaintances. Elderly people, so often overlooked by the younger generations, received numberless attentions from her, needy ones were assisted quietly, the sick were visited, business women received courtesies from her that were much appreciated, children loved her and it may be truly said, she was a general favorite.

In personality, her distinguished appearance, reposeful and gracious manner, her faculty of harmonizing others, her natural refinements of mind and character have marked her life with us. She was a loyal member of the Presbyterian church, and a strong member of Chapter AG,P.E.O. Sisterhood. For years she had been the constant companion and reliance of her widowed mother, to whom her taking away will mean the breaking of a deep and rare relation.

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