ASKEW, Margaretta: Died 1913

ASKEW, BROEHL

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Date: 8/24/2016 at 07:30:31

Miss Askew.

Margaretta Askew, beloved daughter of William and Elizabeth Frances Askew, was born Aug. 27, 1875, on their farm four miles southeast of Stockport.

Here she spent the greater part of her life. After completing the public school she spent two years at Birmingham high school and later three years at I.W.U. at Mt. Pleasant. Since completing her school work she has been caring for her parents.

She was converted and joined the M.E. church at the age of 19. She was very active and interested herself in the various organizations of the church, being secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary society, and member of the Epworth League. Her last church work was on Dec. 24, when she helped with the decorations of the church and tree for the Christmas entertainment, all though on account of illness at night was not able to attend the exercises.

Just a few hours before her death, in talking to a friend about Mrs. Fox's death, she said, she is better off now, and if I knew that my work was done here, that is where I would rather be. The Lord granted her request and she went peacefully to sleep at about 6 p.m. Jan. 1, 1913, to awake in her Father's home.

She leaves to mourn her loss, her aged mother, two brothers, George of Stockport, and William of Marion, Ind., also a sister, Mrs. Mary Broehl of Bradshaw, Neb., besides a host of friends, for she was loved by all who knew her.

"We have lost our darling sister,
She has bid us all adieu.
She has gone to live in heaven,
And her form is lost to view.

"Oh the dear one, how we loved her;
Oh how hard to five her up;
But an Angel came down for her,
And removed her from out flock."

Death had no terrors for Etta, because she knew her home was in heaven and she was ever ready to go. Her only desire was to care for her aged mother, and her many friends, a proof of the number, being the concourse who called at the home immediately after her death became known. Truly the world is better for such lives as Miss Askew's having been lived in it.

The funeral was from the M.E. church Friday at 10 a.m., Rev. Hehrens preaching an able discourse. Interment was in the Spencer cemetery.

The words of the poet Riley are exemplified in Miss Askew.

"I cannot say and I will not say,
That she is dead; she is just away,
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be since she lingers there."

**Handwritten: St. Line Dem. Sat. 4 Jan. 1913

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 177, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA