TRIMBLE, Carrie R. (1863-1923)

TRIMBLE

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/14/2020 at 12:40:46

Carrie Ruth Trimble
(1863 – July 24, 1923)

MRS. CHAS. M. TRIMBLE
Mrs. Chas. M. Trimble passes away at her home in Indianola Tuesday afternoon, July 24. For over a year she had been in declining health. The resources of love and skill had been exhausted for her recovery. But God’s will was otherwise. Her death has brought great sorrow to her many friends, who held her in affectionate regard.
Carrie Ruth Dyke, the youngest of the eight children of Thomas and Emma Dyke, was born at the old home one and one-half miles west of Indianola. Here her childhood and young womanhood were spent. After her mother’s death in 1891, she being the only one left at home, faithfully cared for her father until the time of his death in 1893. August 2, 1894, she was united in marriage to Charles M. Trimble. To this union one son was born, Charles Virgil. Besides her husband and son, she leaves one sister, Mrs. L. J. Swan of Douglas, Wyoming, who so tenderly helped care for her sister during the last four months of her illness, and one brother, J. H. Dyke, of Long Beach, California.
Mrs. Trimble was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Indianola, having united with the church on profession of faith in Christ, Feb. 5, 1887. She lived a sincere, useful, helpful Christian life. She was cheerful by disposition, kind, gentle and always thoughtful of others, and exemplified in a marked degree the highest ideals of Christian womanhood. Those graces and virtues by which her life was adorned endeared her to all who knew her. She nobly fulfilled her high mission as a devoted wife and mother. Faithful unto death, she has received the crown of life.
The funeral service, conducted by her pastor, Rev. Thomas McGregor, was held at the First Presbyterian Church, Thursday afternoon at 2:30. The large assembly of friends, and the many beautiful floral tributes were testimony of the high esteem in which she was held. The relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. [copied from a scrapbook of newspaper clippings at the Warren County Historical Society Library, Indianola, Iowa]