Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-04-03


all Friday for a visit with home
folks, returning Monday.
Mrs. Sullivan and daughter Julia
and Mr.. Will Owens are guests al
the Lar Flemming home.
Bernard Davis who has been seri
ously ill with pneumonia is able tC
sit up a little now.
Lee Graham came Sunday from
Cresco to work the coming year al
the S. NJ. Todd home.
Burton Stephenson has been on
the sick list the past few days.
Our local talent will give their
minstrel show Friday evening, April
3 in the Grange hall at Kendallville
for the benefit Of the Red Cross.
See the bills.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Todd and
Marion spent Sunday at Cresco.
Chas. Ryan was a business visitor
at DEBORAH Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Elliott spent
Friday in Cresco.
The State Line Red Cross will
meet with Mrs. Joe Goldsworthy
Thursday for dinner. Everyone cor
daily invited to help good cause.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Sobolic of Cres-
co spent Sunday at the Ed. Barnes
home.
Clinton brought pearl" home
one night last week and says she
seems to be feeling fine.
Clinton Fifield and Clyde Barnes
were DEBORAH visitors Sunday.
Clyde Barnes was a business cal
Ter in Dubuque CD Saturday eve
ming
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Smith and
family and Jno. Reuter- and Miss
Stein visited at the VIM. Reuter-
home Sunday.
Willard Todd is home from Iowa
City for an Easter vacation with
friends and relatives.
Henry Barnes :. has been doing
some papering the past week at the
IS. M. Todd home.
Mrs. Bean left Saturday for Cres-
co and from there expects to go to
Chicago to make her home with
her son Bert. She was taken sick
on reaching Cresco and has been
unable to leave. Mr.. Ellis and fam
lily will occupy her house the COM
ing year and he has employment at
the Fifield farm.
Obituary.
On Sunday, March II, 1918, af-
ter brief illness of la grippe, Miss
AbDie Fancher passed peacefully
away at the home of her sister, MIS-.
A. p. Curtis of Orleans township,
Winneshiek county, Iowa. Abiail
Ann Fancher, daughter of Alanson
and Lydia Fancher was born in
Pond Ridge, Westchester county, N.
Y, JULY 20, 1912. Early in life
Presbyterian church of which she
was an active member until 1905,
when owing to the death of her par
ents she came to Iowa to make her
home with her sister, Mrs. A. p.
Curtis, bringing her church letter
which she placed in Morgan NJ. E.
church of which she remained a
most loyal and faithful member un-
til she Joined the church trium-
plant. She leaves to mourn her
death two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Cur
It's and Mrs. Mary Jane Curtis, both
of Orleans township, also one broth
er, Ward /. Fancner, of Glen Cove,
Long Island, also many friends who
will miss her smiling face, gentle
ways and kindly ministrations.
outside of the home of which she
was so long a member she will Do
missed most of all in the Morgan
NJ. E. church and Sunday school in
which she had been a devoted work
er and beloved teacher of the Wo-
mans Bible Glass. The funeral SER
vice at the home on Tuesday after
noon was conducted by her pastor
Rev. G. M. Shoemaker, who used
as scripture lesson, I'VE Make it
Our Aim Whether at Home or Abb
sent to be Well Pleasing unto Him, -
. Cor SO. This scripture was
most appropriate having been exem-
plified in the conscientious christian
life of Abbie Fancher. A large
crowd of friends and relatives and
neighbors accompanied the remaina
ito Kendallville cemetery, where
burial was madei