Beulah Marguerite (Richardson) Chester (1894-1944)

RICHARDSON, CHESTER, HICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal February 24, 1944 (page 2)

Funeral Services Held at Maxwell for Mrs. Chester

Special to Journal.
Maxwell, Feb. 24--Funeral services for the late Mrs. Marguerite Chester, a former Maxwell girl, were held Monday afternoon at the local Church of Christ.

Mrs. Chester, a daughter of Mrs. W. L. Richardson, died following a brief illness, in a hospital in Elizabeth, N. J., Feb. 15. The body was accompanied here by Roscoe Richardson, of Roselle, N. J., brother of the dead woman.

Services were in charge of the Rev. H. G. Darling, of Atlantic, and the local pastor, Rev. Stanley Mahannah. The music was by Mrs. Ray Gooden, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. H. C. Larsen. The songs included "Shadows," "No Disappointment in Heaven," and "Sunrise." Burial was made the Center Grove cemetery, west of Maxwell.

Marguerite Richardson Chester, daughter of William L. and Dolly Richardson, was born Sept. 19, 1894 at Osceola, Iowa, and died in Elizabeth, N. J., Feb. 15, 1944, at the age of 49 years, 4 months and 27 days.

She grew to young womanhood in the Elwell community and attended high school at Maxwell, where she was graduated with the class of 1912. Following her graduation she attended Drake University, Des Moines, for one year, and later was student at Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls and received her Master's Degree at Columbia University, New York.

On April 14, 1915, she was married to Gifford Chester and lived in Waterloo, Iowa until the year 1928 when she went to Elizabeth, N. J. There she began her teaching career and for 16 years was a teacher of handicapped children, a position she held at the time of her death. She was happy in her work, knowing that she was doing something to make a happier world for others. Few persons in private life have served as widely as Mrs. Chester, nor won so great a circle of friends. She had a great capacity for friendship and numbered her friends by her acquaintance. She had many and varied interests, but they all centered in the general purpose of human welfare and conserving values for the good of all. She gave generously of herself and there came back to her a wealth of deep appreciation which she doubtless never fully realized.

Any words are futile that try to express her broad sympathies, her sensitiveness to beauty, her eager championship to many worthy causes. But this also is an open page in her life record, known and read by all who knew her.

She always worked for better things and was ever ready to push forward and shoulder more responsibility. A member of the Church of Christ since the age of ten years, she loved it tenderly and was a zealous worker and Bible School teacher.

Hers was a beautiful Christian character and she will be missed as a happy, consecrated loved one and friend. She had laid an impregnable claim to the niche of immortality in the hearts of all those who loved her.

The surviving family includes her mother, Mrs. W. L. Richardson, and sister, Mrs. Charlotte Hick of Maxwell; two brothers, Diehl of Newton, Iowa, Roscoe, of Roselle, N. J. and nine nephews and nieces.