Gause, Stella (Main) 1881-1929

GAUSE, MAIN, DOUD, NAYLOR, BAILEY, JACQUES

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 10/22/2017 at 08:03:30

The Grinnell (IA) Herald
Oct. 25, 1929

MRS. GAUSE OF
LYNNVILLE DIES
(By a Staff Correspondent)

Lynnville, Ia., Oct. 24, Special:
Stella Main Gause, daughter of Aaron and Martha Main was born near Searsboro, Ia., Dec. 2, 1881. She passed to the Heavenly Home Oct. 19, 1929.

As a child she attended school at Hazel Dell and later graduated from a two year course in the Searsboro High School. For two years she taught in the public schools of Poweshiek county.

On January 15, 1902 she was united in marriage to Elmer O. Gause. To this union were born eight children Afton, Luella, Mary, Edwin, Ada Fern, Eula, Berdena and Roy. Edwin preceded her to the better land December 28, 1921 and Ada Fern Aug. 18, 1923.

Most of her married life has been spent in the vicinity of Lynnville except for one year at Boulder and four and a half years near Limon, Colorado.

She leaves her family, her father and mother, four sisters: Mrs. Nellie Doud and Mrs. Ada Naylor of Grinnell, Ia., Mrs. Cora Bailey and Mrs. Effie Jacques of Denver, Colo.; three brothers: Charlie Main of Newton, Ia., Joshua and Aaron of Searsboro, Ia. One brother, Clarence, died in 1928.

In 1916 she was converted and united with the Friends Church at Lynnville. She has been a faithful and conscientious member. She was ever happy and willing to sacrifice that her master might be honored and the work of the church advanced.

Her ideals for her family were high, and like the Christian mother that she was, she ever strove to implant in the lives of her children loyalty to Christ and the church, honesty, industry, modesty and purity of heart and conduct. Verily, "her children shall arise up and call her blessed."

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Friends Church and were attended by an unusually large number of friends and relatives who had gathered to pay their last respects. The Goodfellowship class of which Mrs. Gause was a member attended in a body. The Rev. L.W. Reynolds conducted the services reading part of the 31st Cap. of Proverbs and John 14:1-3. Appropriate selections were sung by Mrs. Leo Davis, Mrs. Harvey Gause, Chas. Potter, and Harlan Meredith with Mrs. A.T, Gifford at the piano.

The many beautiful floral offerings were evident of the high esteem in which the deceased was held and in her untimely death the church and community sustain a great loss.

The pall bearers were Leonard Allee and Ernest Copeland of Searsboro, Loring Stanley of Des Moines, Harlan Macy, H.C. Macy and G.C. Renaud of Lynnville. The body was laid to rest in the Friends cemetery.