Marbach, Maidie Marie 1885-1934

MARBACH, JOHNSON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 9/27/2007 at 20:52:45

GENERAL STORE KEEPER
AT RUBLE FOR MANY YEARS

Mrs. M. M. Marbach Was Widely Known and Popular In the County

Death claimed Mrs. Maidie Marbach, owner of the general store at Ruble and widely known resident of Plymouth County, Friday afternoon in a hospital in Sioux City following an operation to relieve an attack of appendicitis.

Mrs. Marbach suffered a sudden attack about ten days ago and was taken to the hospital January 21, for treatment.

Her death came as a great shock to her family and friends, who had assumed her condition was improving during the week.

Maidie Marie Johnson was born February 11, 1885, at Mount Olive, Illinois, and came with her parents to Plymouth County when a child.

She attended the public schools at Akron and was graduated with the high school class of 1905. She was a student at Western Union College and at the State Teacher’s College at Cedar Falls. She engaged in the profession of teaching and taught with success for five years in the rural schools of Plymouth County.

She was united in marriage June 21, 1910, at LeMars with Henry C. Marbach. She leaves to mourn her death five children, who are Ruth, employed as a hospital nurse in Sioux City, Helen, Lowell, Kenneth, and Wilma living at home. She also leaves her father, H. W. Johnson, of Akron, three brothers, John Johnson, of Denver, Colo., George and Will Johnson, of Sioux City, and twos sisters, Mrs. Margaret Larson, of Storm Lake, and Mrs. Anna Dodge, of Morningside, Sioux City. He mother died September 28, 1930.

Following the death of her husband, Henry Marbach, December 18, 1918, Mrs. Marbach carried on the store and business he had established at Ruble. Left with five young children and the care of the store, Mrs. Marbach successfully conducted the business gaining a wide spread popularity and enjoying the confidence of patrons and customers to the fullest degree. The store, under her direction, afforded accommodation to the countryside, and was a general place of meeting. Her many acts of kindness, her willingness to do a favor on any and every occasion, her generous disposition and unfailing courtesy endeared her to countless friends and neighbors.

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Lutheran church in Akron, Rev. F. A. Meske officiating and the interment was made in the Riverside Cemetery at Akron.

~LeMars Sentinel, January 30, 1934