WORKMAN, Emma W.: Died 1932

WORKMAN, HUBER, ARCHIBALD, SHEROD, HICKEY, WILLIAMS, ELLIOTT

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Date: 8/4/2016 at 21:39:55

**Handwritten: 1932

Mrs. G.W. Workman

Emma W, Huber, the youngest child of William and Ruth Huber, was born at Winchester, Iowa, April 13, 1855, and passed away at her home in Birmingham, Iowa, Sunday April 10, at 2 o'clock p.m., lacking three days of being 77 years of age.

She was born in a log house built on the lot on which the Methodist church now stands, ninety-two years ago. She was one of a family of twelve children. Her childhood and youth was spent in Winchester.

She was married to Girard Workman at Winchester on December 22, 1875, to which union were born eight children: Ralph, Mabel, Clyde, Maud, Fred, Stella and Rex, and Helen who died June 11, 1915.

Mr. and Mrs. Workman made their home on a farm near Stockport, Iowa, where they lived fifteen years, and disposing of this farm they purchased another farm south of Winchester, where they lived until 1905, from whence they were living at the time of her death. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in December, 1925. At the time of her decease they had lived together over fifty-six years.

Mrs. Workman was a homemaker and greatly loved by her children. Hers was a quiet life devoted to her family. She had been a sufferer for more than a year, but she bore it patiently, cheerfully and hopeful to the end.

Her departure leaves to mourn her decease, her husband, and the following children: Clyde of Ellendale, S. Dakota; Rex of Fairfield, Iowa; Ralph, Fred and Stella Archibald of Birmingham; Mrs. Maude Sherod of Keosauqua; Mrs. Mabel Hickey of Belknap, Iowa; Mrs. Helen Williams having died in 1915. Besides these she leaves ten grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Frank Elliott of Bentonsport, other relatives and a host of friends. A vacant chair is left that can never be filled. She has gone to her reward. We hope to meet again.

The funeral service was held from the Methodist church, in charge of Rev. F.M. James, pastor, assisted by Rev. H.C. Irvine of the Presbyterian church. Mesdames Glenn Williams and Stanley Watts, with Mrs. Lee Dustin at the piano, sang, "Above the Bright Blue," "Nearer My God To Thee," "In the Land of the Unsetting Sun." Interment in the Maple Hill cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 132, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA