Marie (Howland) MOSS

MOSS, HOWLAND, SKADBURG, EDWARDS, HAWLAND, EGESDAL, CARPENTER, MILLER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/21/2010 at 13:08:49

17 May 1885 -- 11 August 1943

Eagle Grove Farm Woman Killed in Car-Truck Collision

MRS. LARS MOSS ONLY ONE HURT
Dies After Reaching Webster City Hospital

EAGLE GROVE — Mrs. Lars Moss, riding with her husband, was fatally injured Wednesday afternoon about 5 o'clock when their car collided with a gravel truck occupied by John Miller and his grandson named Carpenter, who was driving. The accident occurred at the Stryker corner, one mile southeast of the city. Mrs. Moss was taken to a hospital in Webster City, but died a short time after arrival. The car was demolished, but Miller and grandson, and Mr. Moss were practically unhurt. Mrs. Moss' injuries were understood to be a fractured leg and internal injuries. The gravel truck was going west, the automobile going east. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have operated a farm about four miles east of the city for years.

[nee: Marie Howland]

Mason City Globe-Gazette -- Iowa
August 12, 1943

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EAGLE GROVE — Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Moss, 38, wife of Lars C. Moss, were held Saturday at the West Side Lutheran church, in charge of the Rev. H. S. Fauske, pastor. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery, Eagle Grove. Surviving are the husband, five sons and two daughters. Mrs. Moss' death was the result of a collision between the car in which she and her husband were riding, and a gravel truck.

Mason City Globe-Gazette -- Iowa
August 14, 1943

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Mrs. Lars P. Moss died at 6:30 Wednesday evening from hurts sustained when the car in which she was riding collided with a truck at the Stryker corner, one mile east of Eagle Grove about 5:45 o'clock. Mr. Moss, who was driving their car was uninjured, except for some slight scratches and bruises. Russell Carpenter, 16, who was driving the truck was not hurt. He was alone in the truck which was coming from the south. The Moss car was going east, and the cars careened north across the intersection and hopped in the ditch, close together, facing the north. Neither vehicle was overturned. Mrs. Moss fell out of the car on the left-hand side.

Dr. L. D. MacNaughton was called and discovered at once that the injuries were serious. Mrs. Moss had a fractured skull, fractured hip, and internal hurts. The doctor commandeered a pickup car which had stopped at the scene of the accident. It was unloaded and Mrs. Moss was rushed to the Hamilton county hospital at Webster City. She passed away while she was being prepared for surgery in the operating room. All was in readiness at the hospital as Dr. McNaughton stopped at the Paul Yon farm here and phoned the hospital that a seriously injured patient was coming and that an operation was imperative.

Mr. and Mrs. Moss reside on a farm about 5 miles east and a mile north of Eagle Grove. The husband and seven children survive.

The truck which young Carpenter was driving belonged to John Miller of Eagle Grove. O. J. Satre was owner of the pickup in which Mrs. Moss was taken to Webster City. He was enroute to Eagle Grove on a business errand and came back to Eagle Grove after he reached the Webster City hospital with the injured woman.

Dr. H. P. Walker, county coroner was called and started an investigation of the accident about 7:30. He released the body which was brought to Eagle Grove to the Kubitschek & Kastler funeral home.

The farm at the Stryker corner on the south side of the road is now owned by Holger Christensen and farmed by his son, Wilfred (Stub) Christensen.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, August 12, 1943

Mrs. Marie Moss was born May 17, 1885 to parents, Ole and Marie Howland, at Os, pr, Bergen, Norway. She was baptized in infancy and confirmed at the age of fifteen in Os Lutheran church, Norway.

In 1910 she migrated to Roland, Iowa and in 1912 was united in marriage to Lars Moss of Roland. To this union were born five boys and two girls: Palmer, Olaf, Martin, Esther, Mildred, Orville, and Harold. In 1917 she moved with her husband to Wright county, Ia., where they have since been occupied with farming. She passed away on Wednesday evening, Aug. 11, 1943 on her way to the hospital at Webster City, after the car in which she was returning to her home six miles east of Eagle Grove, collided with a truck at the Stryker corner one mile east of Eagle Grove.

She leaves to mourn her departure, her husband, Lars Moss, her five sons, all of Eagle Grove, her two daughters, Mrs. Esther Skadburg of Eagle Grove, Mrs. Mildred Edwards of Goldfield; three brothers, Ole Howland of Clarion, John Howland of Kanawha, Engel Howland, living in Norway; one sister, Agathe, also living in Norway; and Mrs. L. Egesdal of Eagle Grove, and three grandchildren of Eagle Grove.

At the age of 38 years, Mrs. Moss was spiritually awakened and accepted Christ at that time as her personal Saviour. She continued in the faith of Christ, that he had saved her until her passing away, to be with Him, which is far better.

Mrs. Moss was a very good and faithful wife and mother and will be greatly missed by her beloved family. Blessed be her memory.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the home and at the West Side Lutheran church, conducted by Rev. H. S. Fauske.

She was laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, August 19, 1943