Warner, Bessie Pearl 1878-1913

WARNER, KENNEDY

Posted By: Linda Ewin Ziemann (email)
Date: 1/3/2004 at 21:14:44

MRS. PEARL WARNER
DIED IN MINNESOTA
Brought Back to Seney, Iowa, for Burial

Mrs. W.C. Warner passed away Friday, Feb. 14, 1913, at her home in Mountain Lake, Minn., at the age of 34 years, 4 months and one day. She had been suffering with complication of ills for the past year.

Bessie Pearl Kennedy was born October 13, 1878, near Marshalltown, Iowa. When very young her parents moved to Seney, where she lived until she was eighteen, attending the Seney School. Her parents then moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, staying four years, and during her parents' stay at Cedar Rapids Bessie prepared herself to teach and in returning to Seney, Iowa, she taught in the Plymouth County schools for two years. Finishing her second year in the schools of this county she took a year's course in the State Teacher's College at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Her return from college found another school in the county open for her, which she taught one year. The following year she enrolled in the Morningside College, but was compelled to lay aside her studies a few months before graduating, owing to illness of her brother's wife in Nebraska.

She taught another term of school on her return from Nebraska and the following fall, October 7, 1903, she was united in marriage to W.C. Warner at Seney, Iowa. Four children were born to this union, an infant son preceding his mother in death. Besides her husband and children, she leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Miles M. Kennedy residing in Seney, Iowa, and one sister. Interment took place at the LeMars City Cemetery.

The deceased was a faithful and affectionate daughter, a kind and loving wife and mother, her thoughts were always of those around her, friend to all who knew her and to know her was to love her.

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