Mabel (Schacht) Fairgrave (1929)

FAIRGRAVE, HOLIFICHEL, ONEAL, SCHACHT

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 1/19/2006 at 10:06:17

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 7, 1929
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Death of Mrs. Paul Fairgrove

Earlham. February 5. Special - A gloom was cast over the community Saturday evening, when Mabel, the young wife of Paul Fairgrove, passed away after a few days illness from pneumonia. Two brothers and a sister arrived Sunday morning and accompanied by the husband, conveyed the remains to her old home at St. Paul, Minnesota, where interment was made.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, February 7, 1929

Death of Mrs. Paul Fairgrave With Pneumonia Saturday.

The home and hearts of Wm. and Ida Schacht, of St. Paul, Minnesota, were made more happy and blessed on October 31, 1900 because of the coming of the baby daughter Mable Olga Grace to their love and care. Being Christian parents they surrounded this young life with the blessing and influence of the church of their choice so that at the age of 16 years on Palm Sunday, 1916 Mable was confirmed in the St. Paul Evangelical Church by Rev. Karen Koch and to this faith she remained true throughout her life.

On February 21, 1921 Mable Schacht was married to Paul Fairgrave and to this now home Mable gave bountifully of the wealth of her affections and thought. Being of a quiet unassuming disposition not seeking social prominence she was primarily a woman of the home and there she gave her best to make it a place most blessed because of the spirit of love pervading its atmosphere and constant efficient care from the heart and hand of a loving wife and mother. One daughter was given to this home and to the same beautiful constant love and care so characteristic of Mable’s life. Since moving to Earlham in 1927 Mable has been a member of the Queen Esther Bible class of the Friends Church, she also attended and enjoyed some of the meetings of the Friends Missionary society.

Mable was loved by all of her neighbors because she made herself a friend indeed.

On February 2, 1929 with so little warning to her friends and loved ones of her leave taking Mable received her summons to leave this home for the eternal home and in her going she leaves the husband, one daughter, Beverly Jane, aged three years, the parents, three sisters, Margaret Oneal, of Los Angeles, Calif.; Ruby Holifichel and Bernice Schacht, of St. Paul; two brothers, Raymond, of Omaha, Neb., and Emory, of St. Paul and also one niece of St. Paul. She lost one brother in the World War.

Short services were held at the home Monday afternoon by Rev. Hester of the Friends Church, and the body was shipped Monday night to St. Paul, Minn. where funeral services were held Wednesday and burial made in the Roselawn cemetery.

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