Bessie M. Borgstadt 1904 - 1921

BORGSTADT

Posted By: Phyllis Hazen (email)
Date: 8/19/2020 at 13:48:18

The Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Saturday, 18 June 1921, page 13

NICHOLS WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD

BESSIE BORGSTADT VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK

Sister Discovers Body Dead in Bed – Had Been Slightly Ill Several Years.

Nichols, Iowa, June 18. – Miss Bessie Mildred Borgstadt of this place was found dead in bed this morning at 7:30 o’clock by her sister, Esther, who was investigating the cause of her absence from the family breakfast table. The attending physician pronounced death due to a heart attack.
While she had not been bedfast, she had been suffering from heart trouble for several years and for this reason it was deemed unnecessary to hold a coroner’s inquest over the body.
Retiring last night, Miss Borgstadt seemed to be enjoying better health than usual. Friday she had been on a Sunday school picnic with a class which she taught, and for the past month her condition seemed to be steadily improving. This morning she failed to appear at the breakfast table.
Miss Borgstadt was of a quiet, likable disposition, which won her many friends about the community, during the 17 years of her life on this earth, who will sincerely mourn her passing. She was also a faithful member of the Methodist church, and was actibve in church work whenever her health permitted.
She was born in Nichols, Jan. 25, 1904, and resided there all her life. She is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Borgstadt, two brothers, Amos H. and Raymond B., and two sister, Esther, all of Nichols, and Selma o Sweet Springs, Mo.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon, from the Methodist church and burial will be in Nichols cemetery.
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The Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Tuesday, 21 June 1921, page 12

BESSIE BORGSTADT OF NICHOLS BURIED MONDAY AFTERNOON

Nichols, June 21. – The funeral services of Bessie Borgstadt were held Monday afternoon from the M. E. church.
Rev. a. J. Worrell had charge of the obsequies. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Six boys, school mates of the deceased, acted as pallbearers. They were Archie and Harry Brown, Walter Elder, Floyd Kirchner, Glen Hummell and Ernest Kirchner. Six young girls, Margaret Schmitt, Rose and Thelma Trautman, Nina Quimby, Hazel and Grace Bausch, were honorary pallbearers.