Matilda “Tillie” (Salager) Kershner (1876-1924)

KERSHNER, RILEY, SALAGER

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:44

Wright County Monitor
Clarion, Iowa
Wednesday, January 30, 1924

Goldfield

Mrs. Frank Kershner passed away Sunday morning after a long illness with cancer. She was a patient sufferer during months of pain. Every effort of doctors and specialists to relieve her was in vain. Her husband and little son will especially miss her in the home where her life was spent to make them happy.

Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Christian church. Rev. A. E. Buriff officiating.

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Goldfield Chronicle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, January 31, 1924

Mrs. Frank Kershner, who has been sick for several months, is now reported as being very low and her life despaired of. A nurse is attending her.
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Death Angel Visits Our Midst

Mrs. B. Frank Kershner called

Matilda Salager was born in Baymen Germany, June 6, 1876.

In 1905 she came to America, joining a sister who at that time lived at Reinbeck.

October 23, 1912 she was married to B. Frank Kershner, at Nevada, Iowa. For two years Mr. and Mrs. Kershner made their home at Radcliffe, Iowa, then lived one year in Webster City, and in 1915 moved to Goldfield, which place was her home from that time. On January 27, 1924, this home was broken by translation of Mrs Kershner at age of forty-seven years, seven months and twenty-one days. Her only child, Ralph, survives to mourn with his father a loss deeper than his tender years can yet realize.

For many months Mrs. Kershner suffered from an incurable and painful malady. Her passing meant to her a gracious relief from suffering, and while the hearts of all friends go out in sympathy to the bereaved husband and motherless child, we can but feel that for her there is now release and rest.

In her youth Mrs. Kershner was affiliated with the Lutheran church and after coming to America she made no change in church relationship. She was a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, which sisterhood cherishes her memory and testifies to their esteem for her womanly quality by attendance in a body to this service.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Riley of Webster City were here to attend the funeral of Mrs. Frank Kershner.