COONTZ, Ella

BERRY, MCCARTY, COONTZ, CLARK, BOWEN, DUNN, KEARNEY, EVERHART, GABLE

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner (email)
Date: 7/3/2005 at 13:25:58

Mills County Tribune
April 17, 1922

Ella Berry was born in Mills County, Iowa, near Hastings, on the fourth day of November 1872.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Berry and one of twelve children, eight girls and four boys.

All her life she has lived in the vicinity of Hastings where she was known as a kindhearted, hard working, honest woman. Her willing service has lightened the heavy load of many of Hastings’ housewives, and whatever she undertook she did well.

For almost a year she has been a constant sufferer with cancer and although every possible means were used to overcome the dreaded disease it gradually gained in its grip until on the 13th of April, 1922, as the day was breaking the new day of an eternal life was ushered in and she was relieved of her pain.

Thus we say, ends another life and yet just as certainly we can say another life has begun.

She is survived by her son Henry McCarty of Council Bluffs, her husband, Peter Coontz of Hastings, to whom she was married on June 28, 1903; her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James Berry of Council Bluffs, IA.; six sisters, Mrs. John Clark and Flora Bowen of Hastings, Mrs. Sadie Dunn of Malvern, Mrs. Howard Kearney and Mrs. Clara Everhart of Council Bluffs, and Miss Lillie Berry of Red Oak; three brothers, John, Frank and George, all of Council Bluffs. These with many other relatives and friends are left to mourn her loss.

Mrs. Coontz was converted and joined the Methodist Church in 1915 during the ministry of Rev. M.A. Gable.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church Easter Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. F.A. Smith, the home pastor. Burial was made in the Hastings cemetery.