Lilah A. (Mathews) TROWBRIDGE

TROWBRIDGE, MATHEWS, ELKEMA, GREIBEL, BORCHARDT, MACHIN, RASMUSSON, RODAMAKER, HOPKINS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/1/2006 at 22:51:49

Lilah A. Trowbridge, 91, of Clear Lake, died Friday (Jan. 9, 2004) at the Sheffield Care Center in Sheffield. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, with Chaplain Kathy Graves officiating. Interment will be held at 2 p.m. at the Fairview Cemetery, Dows, with the Rev. Anthony Hershey of the Dows United Methodist Church officiating at the graveside. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to Ventura Senior Citizens Center, 10 S. Weimer St, Ventura, IA 50482, in memory of Lilah A. Trowbridge.

Lilah was born March 27, 1912, at Bristow, the daughter of Alva and Dorothea (Elkema) Mathews. Lilah graduated from Bristow High School in 1930 and attended one year of business school in Cedar Falls. Lilah married Mitchell Trowbridge June 23, 1932, in Galt, Iowa. Lilah and her husband farmed for over 43 years in Wright, Mitchell and Howard counties, retiring to Clear Lake in 1974. Lilah was a member of Clear Lake United Methodist church. She was also a 50-year member of Queen Rebekah Lodge. She was a homemaker and enjoyed gardening, canning and trying new recipes. She crocheted many afghans for her family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in her later years. She enjoyed traveling very much and had visited every state in the U.S., plus Europe, England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. She wrote many stories of her travels and enjoyed talking about it. She enjoyed her many visits and spending time with all her family and friends. She took great pride in living in her own home and taking care of herself up until Thanksgiving, when she fell and had to be hospitalized and was transferred to the Sheffield Care Center, where she passed away after a brief illness on Jan. 9, 2004.

Survivors include two sons, Jon and Maryln Trowbridge of Akron, and George and Jan Trowbridge of Largo, Fla.; five daughters, Doris and Charles Greibel of New Ulm, Minn., Dorothea and Gary Borchardt of Sheffield, Doreen Machin of Lakeville, Minn., Leann and Calvin Rasmusson of Mason City, and Linda and Duane Rodamaker of Clarksville. Lilah leaves 19 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Lilah is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Mitchell T. Trowbridge on Dec. 10, 1981; two brothers, Lloyd and Laverne Mathews; and one sister, Lilian Hopkins; and two great-grandchildren. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Copyright Mason City Globe Gazette
January 10, 2004