Priscilla (Banks) WERNET

BANKS, WERNET, WERNETT, REEVES, ENFIELD, IRWIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/5/2014 at 13:17:57

February 24, 1865 -- March 6, 1944

Mrs. Priscilla Wernet Dies, Rites Wednesday

Eagle Grove - Mrs. Priscilla Wernet, widow, 79, died at the Nelson Convalescent Home, Monday. Funeral services, in charge of the Rev. Harry Throckmorton of the Baptist Church, were to be held Wednesday at the Kubitschek and Kastler funeral parlors at 1:30 p.m., with burial in Calvary cemetery, Eagle Grove. Surviving are 5 sons and 3 daughters; one son Joseph Wernet, operates a dairy in this city; the others live elsewhere. Mrs. Wernet had lived in Iowa for 50 years, and 30 years in Eagle Grove and vicinity. Her husband died in 1917. She was born in Illinois.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
March 8, 1944

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Mrs. Xavier Wernet, formerly Miss Priscilla Banks was born in Shelby County, Ill. on February 24, 1865 and passed away March 6, 1844 at the age of 79 years, 10 days. She was married at Shelbyville, Ill. to Xavier Wernet, January 21, 1886. To this union eight children were born, all of whom survive. The children are Joseph of Eagle Grove, Henry of Jackson, Minn., Robert of Mason City, Andrew of Burchinal, Mrs. James Reeves and Thomas Wernet of Falls City, Ore., Mrs. Clyde Enfield of Clear Lake, and Mrs. William Irwin of Des Moines. There are also 21 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Wernet moved to Wright county in 1896 and settled on a farm in Woolstock township and later moved to Eagle Grove in 1913. Mr. Wernet passed away, October 29th, 1917. Since that time she lived in Eagle Grove until about 2 years ago when her health failed. She then went to make her home with her son Andrew and family of Burchinal.

Early in January she went to visit a few days with her daughter, Mary and became ill and she was taken to the Convalescence Home in Eagle Grove where she passed away 12 days later.

Mary, Joe and Ida were at her bedside when the end came.

Special mention should be given Mrs. Andrew Wernet for her care and kindness she has given our mother.

She gave her heart to God early in life and had been a faithful follower all her years.

She will be greatly missed by a wide circle of relatives and friends.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
March 16, 1944