WILLIAMS, Bessie V. (Wilder) 1874-1910

WILLIAMS, WILDER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/17/2015 at 12:37:14

MRS. BESSIE V. WILLIAMS.

Mrs. Bessie V. Wilder Williams was born at Otranto, Iowa, February 9, 1874. She attended Austin High School and later spent two years at the Iowa state normal at Cedar Falls. She taught a number of years in both the Iowa and Idaho schools. Her interests were always along educational lines and she was very ambitious to progress and the past year she was taking an advanced normal course in Bellingham, Wash., where she expected to graduate in June.

Contracted a severe cold during the holiday season which developed into bronchial pneumonia, the immediate cause of her death on February 5th, 1910.

Mrs. Bessie Williams was a daughter of Nelson M. and Maria H. Wilder and she leaves Harold, her 14 year old son, and her mother at Portland, Oregon and two brothers, B. V. Wilder of Mitchell, South Dakota, and A. B. Wilder of Lyle village to mourn her departure. Funeral services were held at the A. B. Wilder home in Lyle, Wednesday Feb. 16th, conducted by Rev. C. D. Belden.

Interment was at Woodbury cemetery, rural Lyle.

Source: The Mower County Transcript, 23 Feb. 1910, page 10, column 1, under heading "DEATHS"

Credit: Mitch Helle, Sept. 2015