Edna Frances (Chenoweth) LUYMES

CHENOWETH, LUYMES, MORGAN, PATTERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/1/2014 at 12:07:49

July 8, 1906 --- May 8, 1931

Mrs. Chris Luymes, former Hawarden girl, passed away at 9 o'clock last Friday morning at her home at Armour, S.D., following a lingering illness from a complication of diseases. She had been bedfast for about six months, but after a long and hard fight for continued life she quietly passed into the Great Beyond. Brief funeral services were held at the Luymes home at Armour at 1:15 Saturday afternoon after which the remains were brought to Hawarden. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church in this city at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Robt. H. Forrester, assisted by Dr. G. T. Notson, superintendent of the Methodist hospital in Sioux City. Interment was made in Grace Hill cemetery. Six classmates and graduate nurses from the Methodist hospital acted as honorary pall bearers. A large number of friends and relatives from Orange City, Armour, S.D., Wakonda, S.D., and Sioux City were in attendance.

Edna Frances Chenoweth was born July 8, 1906, at Eagle Grove, Iowa. Her mother died when she was but 3 years of age, after which the family moved to Hawarden. Here Edna grew to womanhood and graduated from the Hawarden high school. She then too up nurse's training in the Methodist hospital in Sioux City with the first class in the new building there in the fall of 1926. She became a graduate nurse in May, 1929, and for a year practiced nursing in the Sioux City hospital.
On April 12, 1930, she was united in marriage to Chris Luymes and has since made her home in Armour. In the early part of her nurse's training course her health began to give way. Numerous operations brought temporary relief but also many complications. This last year which gave her the home and happiness that she always longed for also brought increasing pain and suffering. Her death came age the age of 24 years and 10 months. In her early "teens" Mrs. Luymes became a Christian, uniting with the Methodist Episcopal church in Hawarden. Through all her service and suffering, her faith in God and Christ and their unremitting love never failed her. And while she was loath to leave her home and husband, yet she was prepared to go and even joyfully anticipated the experience that would bring her face to face with the mother she never remembered seeing. Her life and the work to which she gave herself unstintingly ever manifested the faithfulness and devotion of one who serves as in His sight.

Her immediate relatives who survive are her husband, Chris Luymes and family of Armour; her father, C. E. Chenoweth, two sisters, Mrs. R. F. Morgan and Dorothy Chenoweth, and a half-brother, William Chenoweth, all of Hawarden; and a third sister, Mrs. R. E. Patterson of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

The Independent -- Hawarden, Iowa
May 15, 1931