Barkalow, Mary Sophia 1856-1925

BARKALOW, BRYAN, MYERS, COX, WILSON, REDMAN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 3/5/2014 at 20:33:18

The Grinnell (IA) Herald
July 14, 1025

MRS. BARKALOW
DEEPLY MOURNED
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Funeral Service Were Held Monday
From Home of Her Daughter,
Mrs. D.M. Cox.
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SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED
BY REV. E.M. VITTUM.
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Kindly, Helpful and Self Sacrificing
Life Has Ended Its
Close.
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Mary Sophia Bryan was born July 28, 1856, at Indiana, Pa., where she grew to womanhood. She attended the public schools and Normal School there and was employed as a teacher until the time of her marriage to William Kinter Myers in 1876.

After five happy years, death claimed the young husband and she was left with two little girls, Olive and Verna, to begin life all over again. In just a few short months the younger daughter, Verna, died at the age of two years.

Leaving her one remaining child with her people for a time, the young mother came west and went into the millinery business at Villisca, Iowa. Here she met Dr. D.G. Barkalow, and in the year 1888 they were married.

Following Dr. Barkalow's death about five years ago, Mrs. Barkalow came to Grinnell to make her home with her daughter Mrs. D.M. Cox. Here--as elsewhere--she found her chief pleasure in giving others pleasure. She found joy in homely tasks and while she enjoyed her usual health, she loved to share in the daily round of work and play.

She leaves surviving her one daughter, Mrs. D.M. Cox, and one granddaughter, Miss Mary Cox, of Grinnell; two brothers Row Bryan of Indiana, Pa.; and John B. Bryan of Cincinnati, Ohio; and three sisters, Mrs. S.W. Wilson, of Albia, Iowa; Miss Ida Bryan of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. J.C. Redman, of Altoona, Iowa.

In addition to her church activities Mrs. Barkalow was a loyal and enthusiastic member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the D.A.R. and the Eastern Star. She ever stood for the highest and best things in life. Her gentle courage and unselfish devotion to duty and to her loved ones were unfailing and unchanging. Her sweetness of spirit and kindness of heart have outlived her and will live on in her influence on the lives of others. She knew sorrow and care--misfortune and hardship, but she knew not defeat.

Funeral services were held Monday morning from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cox, conducted by Rev. E.M. Vittum. Miss Stella Bartlett, with Mrs. C.N. Smiley at the piano, sang two appropriate selections, "O Love Divine That Stoops to Share" and "The Homeland." Pall bearers were W.S. Dodge, W.B. Sanders, S.J. Pooley, L.C. Bennett, W.C. Rayburn and J.L. Fellows.