Bertha Eshter (Augustine) Mosby (1930)

MOSBY, AUGUSTINE, OVERLANDER, DINDMUTH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/14/2015 at 07:25:11

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset Iowa
Thursday, February 20, 1930
Page 1

Death of Mrs. O. Mosby

Mrs. O. Mosby, who had been seriously ill for the last ten months, died at her home, four miles west of Winterset, Sunday, February 16th. Mrs. Mosby was 59 years of age at the time of her death. She was stricken with a stroke of paralysis last April, and had been in poor health since that time. She became critically ill, with heart and bladder complications a few weeks ago, and her condition gradually became worse.

Mrs. Bertha Mosby was a daughter of John and Mary Augustine, and was born in Adair county, July 23, 1870. She spent most of her life, until she was ten years of age, at Creston. The Augustines' then moved to a farm east of Hebron, in Adair county. When she was 13 years of age, her mother was stricken with paralysis, and the duties of the home and helping care for her mother, fell on her inexperienced shoulders, as the rest of the brothers and sisters, except the brother, Frank, had married and left home. She was the youngest of a family of 11 children; 9 girls and 2 boys, two having died in infancy.

She was married to Osmond Mosby January 1, 1897 at Hebron. They were the parents of one son, Ernest, who with the father survives her. Mrs. Mosby joined the Congregational church at Wells, in Madison county, when she was twenty years of age, and had taken an active part in church and Sunday school work since that time. Mrs. Mosby was interested in the affairs of the day and kept herself well informed on state and national problems.

In addition to her husband and son, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J. P. Overlander, of Washington, Kansas; Mrs. Phil Dindmuth, of Denver, and a brother, Henry Augustine, also of Denver.

Funeral services were held at the Hebron church, Wednesday, February 19th, at two o’clock, by the Rev. A. R. Weed, pastor of the West Star church, and by Rev. Rowe, of the Hebron church. Burial was made in the Hebron cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from the obituary appearing in The Winterset News of Feb. 20th, page 10, otherwise virtually identical to the Madisonian obituary.

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