Philene (Mowers) GOODSELL

GOODSELL, MOWERS, LAKE, MOORE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/27/2009 at 12:37:53

July 12, 1847 -- April 21, 1911

DIES ON THE STREET

Mrs. Philena Goodsell Drops Dead in Front of the Farmer's Exchange

Heart Trouble Cause

The entire community was shocked and sorely grieved last Friday when the news was flashed by mouth and telephone that Mrs. Philena Goodsell had dropped dead on the street in Homer, Nebraska, near the Farmer's Exchange. She was visiting here with her son L. J. Goodsell, and was about town that morning attending to various duties and apparently in the best of health and spirits.

Philena Mowers was born in Oneida County, New York, July 12, 1846. United in marriage December 22, 1869 to Lewis Goodsell, soon after which they moved to Wright County, Iowa, where they resided until the autumn of 1887, when they moved to Orchard, Nebraska. In 1894 removed to Bloomfield and in 1897 to Homer and lived in the vicinity of this place since, with the exception of the last year, which she spent in Dakota City. Mrs. Goodsell has been in very poor health for a number of years but it has been more marked since the death of her husband, April 4, 1908. She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom are living to mourn her sudden death. A Son and duaghter Clarence W. and Mrs. O. S. Lake live in Omaha. Two sons, Roscoe and Chas A. at Spencer, Louis J. at Homer and two daughters, Mrs. V. O. Lake and Mrs. S. H. Moore at Dakota City. All were present at the funeral which was held from the M. E. Church, Homer, Sunday, April 23, conducted by Rev. J. L. Phillips of South Sioux City. Mrs. Goodsell broke up housekeeping in Dakota City owing to failing health and was planning to spend the summer in Omaha with her children. For several days preceding her death she had felt unusually well and the morning of her demise had written several letters, had gone to the post office, bank, store, and telephone office where she phoned to Mrs. Moore stating that she was feeling fine. Mrs. Goodsell has been a Christian since twenty years of age and died as she had lived in the triumph of a living faith, and has gone to meet her husband who was called in much the same manner three years and seventeen days prior to her summons.