Amelia S. (Lyon) Dunkelbarger (1849-1912)

LYON, DUNKELBARGER, BREWER, BELL, CRUMMEY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal April 24, 1912 (page 3)

WAS BURIED YESTERDAY

Funeral of Mrs. Dunkelbarger Held From Methodist Church.

The funeral of Mrs. Amelia Dunkelbarger, whose health was mentioned in Monday's Journal, ws held yesterday afternoon from the Methodist church and her body was interred in the Nevada cemetery after appropriate services by Rev. Brown, of Corning. Death followed a stroke of apoplexy which was suffered just a week before. Following the stroke she sank rapidly and death was no unexpected.

Mrs. Dunkelbarger was born Ameilia Lyon, being a native of New York state, where she grew to womanhood; but she migrated with a sister's family in 1884 to St. Paul, and in 1892 she removed to Indianola, where she served as matron of a ladies boarding hall in connection with the Simpson college for eight years. In 1900 she was married to Mr. Dunklebarger and came to Nevada continuing here after his death some five years ago.

She was a most estimable and quite capable woman, a life long member of the Methodist church and much devoted to the affairs of the church. Coming into a family of a husband who was already advanced in years and whose children were long since grown and grandchildren also, she made herself welcome to them all and met her responsibilities most worthily and became a much valued member of this community. Besides her late husband's family she leaves a brother and three sisters, the brother and one sister, Mrs. Brewer, being in or near Philadelphia, Mrs. Bell with her here in Nevada and Mrs. Crummy in Redlands, California.