Myers, Mrs. J. W. (Mary L.) 1836-1925

KIMBERLY, MYERS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 10/6/2013 at 16:44:13

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 4, 1925

WAS PIONEER SETTLER HERE
Mrs. J. W. Myers Passes Away Tuesday at Advanced Age This Week
LIVE HERE FIFTY YEARS
Was Few Days Under Eighty-Nine Years

Mrs. J. W. Myers, a pioneer resident of LeMars, died at her home 301 First Avenue SE, at 1:30 Tuesday morning after a protracted illness, aged 89 years. Mrs. Myers fell and broke her hip three or four years ago and never recovered her normal health after that accident.

Mary L. Kimberly was born at Bellevue, Michigan, December 10, 1836, and grew to young womanhood in that community. She attended college at Albion, Michigan, and taught in the public schools of that state prior to her marriage to Jacob W. Myers, at Bellevue in 1858. For a few years after their marriage, they lived in St. Paul while Mr. Myers was engaged in making government land surveys and later lived in Independence, Iowa.

In 1878 they moved to LeMars where Mrs. Myers has made her home for over forty-seven years. Mr. Myers died in May, 1924.

Mrs. Myers is survived by one brother, Frank Kimberly, of Haviland, Kansas, and one sister, Mrs. E. D. Hobbs, of Albion, Neb. The latter visited here recently and came to see Mrs. Myers less than a month ago.

The funeral was held at the family home at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Dr. C. A. Mock, president of Western Union College, preaching the funeral. Interment was made in the city cemetery by the side of the body of her husband.

Relatives from out of town who attended the funeral were Mrs. E. D. Hobbs and Mrs. Clarence Hobbs, of Albion, Nebraska.

Mrs. Myers was a member of the Congregational church and took an active interest in church and social affairs of the community in which she lived almost half a century as long as her health would permit.