Mary E. (Pearl) Wood

PEARL, WOOD, BRYANT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/23/2011 at 00:17:29

From Story County Watchman November 12, 1897

OBITUARY.--Mrs. Mary E. Pearl of San Francisco, California, died Saturday, October 23, aged fifty years and twenty-five days. The deceased was formerly a resident of Story county, moving with her family to California in 1873, where she has since resided, devoting her life to her profession and becoming the most noted Tape Worm specialist on the Pacific coast. Three years ago next December the deceased had a stroke of paralysis, another stroke early last spring, and it is supposed a third one and she did not rally from it. She leaves a mother and two brothers; Mrs. J. E., John H. and Jesse C. Pearl of Quimby, Iowa; a brother, Rev. G. W. Pearl, of Pasadena, California; a sister and two sons of this place, Mrs. Joshua Bryant, Byron Wood and Maurice Pearl to mourn her loss.