Nellie (Harnden) Hill (1871=1933)

HARNDEN, HILL, JACOBSON, SAWYER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/21/2024 at 13:30:38

From Story City Herald November 23, 1933 (page 1)

MRS. HILL FUNERAL HELD ON SUNDAY

A concourse of relatives and friends that taxed the capacity of Grace church assembled last Sunday afternoon to pay their last respects to Mrs. John Hill, whose death occurred Thursday morning of last week.

Rev. Fuller officiated at the home and in the church. At the church Margaret and Ruth Fuller sang, as solos, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "We are Going Down the Valley," with Mrs. Sweet at the piano. The pall bearers were: B. E. Kent, Arthur Jones and J. H. Reynolds of Gilbert, H. L. Boyes of Nevada, J. C. Jessen of this place, and Wallace Huffmaster of Cisco, Ill.

Among the relatives and friends present at the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kimble and Lowell and Vivian Mann of Nevada; Minnie and Ben Hill of Windom, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson of Jackson; Mrs. Betsy Thompson and Mrs. Bertha Vrohme and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Olson and children of Goldfield; Mrs. Lutie Bergeson and Sarah Hill of Ellsworth; Mrs. Curtis and Miss Grace Curtis of Ames; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Boyes of Nevada; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woodman and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harper of Maxwell; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris of Ames; Mr. and Mrs. Perry Sawyer of Boone, and host of others from surrounding towns.

Obituary

Nellie Harnden, daughter of John P. and Martha J. Harnden, was born September 27, 1871, on the farm in Milford township, Story county, Iowa, where she grew to young womanhood. On March 4, 1896, she was married to John Hill by the Rev. A. W. Harned. The young couple moved to Kossuth county, where they remained five years; then they came back to Story county and made their residence on the same old homestead in Milford township where she had been born and reared. In 1910 they moved to Gilbert. Since 1923 the family had resided in Story City.

Mrs. Hill joined the Methodist church at Pleasant Grove in 1892 at the time the Rev. A. W. Harned was its pastor. After moving to Gilbert she became an active member of the Congregational church. After coming to Story City she united with the Grace Evangelical church. She was a member of the Grace ladies aid and also the Missionary Society.

She belonged to the Rebecca lodge at Gilbert, the Daughters of the American Revolution; she was also affiliated with Chapter FZ of the P.E.O. and the local E.C.K. club.

For a number of years Mrs. Hill had been a sufferer from heart disease. During the last three weeks she was critically ill, and it was apparent that her strength was slipping hourly. Finally at 12:15 a.m. on November 16, in the presence of her immediate family, who had care for her so tenderly in her hours of pain, the spark of life had to give way; the hours of her patient suffering were over, and she had gone to her reward.

Her devoted husband, her daughter, Helen, a little grandson, John Andrew Jacobson, a sister, Mrs. Howard Sawyer of Sioux Rapids, two other children who grew up in her home and shared her mother-love, Mrs. Edith Dickeson Jones of Des Moines and Glen C. Harnden of St. Paul, many other relatives and a host of friends are left to mourn the departure of a faithful wife, a loving mother, a kind sister and a sincere friend. Her father and mother, two sisters and two brothers, have preceded her in death.

Mrs. Hill was a woman of strong faith and high ideals of Christian fellowship and service. Hers was a generous, unselfish life; she always put the wants of others before her own needs. There are many who can speak of her acts of self sacrifice. The sleeps today in Jesus, and though our hearts ache, yet we do not sorrow as those who have no hope; for we believe if we are faithful, we shall meet her beyond this veil of tears. We all feel she is

Not lost, not dead, not gone, not even sleeping;
Though we lay her in the grave with weeping;
No sharp despair out chastened hearts can fill,
For she is with us still.