Hattie A. (White) Gearhart (1873-1944)

WHITE, GEARHART, GALLAGHER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/4/2020 at 18:21:08

From Nevada Evening Journal February 25, 1944 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held at Colo for Mrs. Alva Gearhart

Colo, Feb. 25--Funeral rites for Mrs. Alva Gearhart, pioneer Colo woman, who passed away early Saturday at the Deaconess hospital, Marshalltown, were held Tuesday, at 2:30 p. m. at the Evangelical church, Colo, with Rev. Williams of Gladbrook in charge. Burial was in the Colo cemetery.

The following life sketch of the deceased was read during the service by the officiating minister.

"Hattie A., daughter of Samuel and Mary White, was born on a farm southwest of Colo Feb. 19, 1873. She grew to womanhood on the old home farm, attending the rural school at Hickory Grove and helping her mother at home until her marriage to J. A. Gearhart at her home Oct. 6, 1897.

The couple immediately set up their home on Mr. Gearhart's farm south of Colo, where they lived until retiring to live in Colo in the spring of 1913, and have lived here ever since, except for three winters spent in Arizona and California. They lived in three different rented homes in Colo until 1917 when they built the house where they lived until the present time. Almost five years ago her health began to fail, but by careful dieting she was able to counteract her ailment. About a month ago she was taken rather suddenly with an illness that required her being taken to the hospital in Marshalltown, where she died suddenly last Friday, on her seventy-first birthday.

In early womanhood she became a Christian and remained in active Christian life and community activity to the end of her life. Her last public appearance was in attendance at a religious meeting the day before being, stricken with her last illness.

She was intellectually alert and belonged to two women's clubs, the B. F. and T. club of Colo and the P. E. O. chapter at State Center.

She is survived by her husband; four brothers, Samuel and Turl of Nevada, Ade of Colo and Homer on a farm southwest of Colo, and by one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Gallagher of Nevada, who is with Turl in California, and by a large number of cousins, nieces, nephews and other relatives.

A great number of friends join with these relatives in mourning the loss of one who by her qualities endeared herself to them."