Ida May Dewel Warner

DEWEL, WARNER

Posted By: Dennis Bell (email)
Date: 4/29/2016 at 18:18:53

The Maxwell Tribune, Maxwell, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, November 3, 1904, page 4, column 2: OBITUARY – Ida May Dewel was born November 10, 1879, near Louisville, in St. Lawrence county, New York. She was the fourth child in a family of eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Dewel. Two of these children died shortly after birth. Of those who survived infancy, Ida is the first to become deceased. Two brothers and three sisters, besides the parents, are left to mourn her untimely loss.
Ida was the second girl born in the family. Had she lived until the 10th of November, she would have reached the age of twenty-five years.
In December, 1880, while Ida was still a baby, her parents took the growing family west and settled at Goldfield, in Wright county, Iowa. Here, with the remainder of the children, Ida grew to maturity, until, in the fall of 1895, the family moved to Maxwell.
Just developing into charming young womanhood, Ida found Maxwell and its people entirely to her liking. With the other girls of the family, she rapidly extended her acquaintance with the good people of this vicinity, and made warm friends wherever she went; so that, with the girl friends of Ida and her sisters, the Dewel home soon became a general rendezvous for many of the young people of Maxwell, where the merry voices of young men and women might be heard at all hours of the day and evening.
It was in May, 1897, that the ties of mutual love began to bind together the hearts and lives of Ida and Wilbur Warner. Throughout the changing seasons from that time until February, 1903, a long period of six years, the two young people, though as yet unmarried, remained faithful to each other – a convincing proof of the sincerity of their affections, and of their suitableness for one another.
On February 4, 1903, only a little more than eighteen months ago, these worthy young people were united in matrimony. It may be truly said that their short married life was one of great peace and happiness. Though Ida had never before lived in the country, and, in the latter years, had become accustomed to city life, she went gladly to her country home, and has always enjoyed her life there to the full.
On Sunday, October 23d, a girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Warner, which, unfortunately, died soon after birth. The ill-fated mother did not long survive her child. Tuesday afternoon she sank slowly into unconsciousness, and, shortly before midnight upon the same day, October 25, 1904, she passed quietly and peacefully into the valley and the shadow.
God so willed it that she entered eternity without being aware of it; and, for this great favor, her sorrowing husband and relatives are profoundly grateful.
Ida’s chief characteristic was her abounding happiness and good humor. She was continually seeing the bright side of life. Her friends and relatives, as they go over their recollection of her, will have difficulty in remembering periods when she was gloomy or depressed. Laughter and unfailing good nature, increasingly as the years went by, seemed to beam from her countenance, and scatter sunshine along the pathway of her life. She was generous, light hearted – a favorite among her friends, and her enemies unknown. The world loses much of its sweetness and pleasure when such worthy lives are called from it.
The funeral was held in the M. E. church of this city Thursday at 2:30 p.m., in charge of Rev. Clay Bobbitt, pastor of the C. P. church, at which time the large concourse of people which assembled and the profusion of beautiful flowers, from sympathizing friends, showed the high esteem in which Ida was held. Interment was made in the Maxwell cemetery.