HUBER, Mrs. Ruth

HUBER, SINGER

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Date: 8/5/2016 at 11:56:24

OBITUARY.
MRS. RUTH HUBER.

We clip the following obituary notice from the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune.

Mrs. Ruth Huber died very suddenly at her home in Winchester, Van Buren County, Iowa, of apoplexy on Saturday afternoon, June 25, 1892, and was buried in the pretty little cemetery near that place on the Sunday evening following. She was born in the vicinity of Johnstown, October 10, 1810, and had reached, at the time of her death, the ripe old age of eighty-one years eight months and fifteen days. She was married in 1826, at the age of sixteen, to William Huber, whom all of our residents and readers will remember, he having been born in this city in the year 1806, and lived here until the year 1851, when he and his family moved to Iowa, purchasing property in the town of Winchester, in what was at that time a comparatively unsettled and new country.

Mother Huber's maiden name was Singer, and two of her brothers still reside in Jackson Township, this county. She was the mother of four boys and eight girls, of whom one boy and seven girls, also her husband, survive her. One of the seven remaining lives in California, two in Nevada, one in Kansas, and the other three in Iowa. The surviving son lives in Iowa. "Grandmother Huber," as she was familiarly called by all, formed a very large circle of friends and acquaintances and was loved and respected by every one, from the youngest child to the oldest resident and she will be missed and mourned, not only by her husband and children, but the whole community.

Mrs. Huber was a member, at the time of reaching Iowa, of the Lutheran Church, but there being no such organization within reach, she and her husband united with the Methodist people and from that until the time of her death she remained a true and consistent member of said church. Her gentleness of manner and goodness of heart endears her to all with whom she came in contact. She always had a kind word and a helping hand for the needy, encouraged the weary, and inspired with hope and confidence all those that came to her with their trouble. She was never weary of doing good and always happy in making them happy. The influence of her noble Christian character has so fastened itself upon the community in which she lived that it will grow brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, and we may confidently say in reference to her, "Blessed are they that died in the Lord, for their works do follow them."

A very large concourse of people attended her funeral, and as her pastor preached and earnest and eloquent discourse from the words, "She hath done what she could," and exhorted his hearers to follow in the footsteps of their dear old Christian mother, there were none but felt the appropriateness of this advice, and there could be no other sentiment expressed than that of the utmost confidence and belief that heaven itself had been brought nearer and this earth made brighter and better by Mother Huber having lived in it. No better exemplification was ever brought to the notice of the world than has been through this life, of the fact an upright Christian character cannot but leave indellible(sp) traces of a good work preformed in pointing humanity to a higher and more noble life beyond.

To old Father Huber, as well as the other members of the family, we extend our sincere sympathies, and cannot but feel, even at this remote distance, that we, too, have lost a friend at great value in the death of this, our former neighbor.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 135, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA