The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-04-20
MRS. DAVID r. SELlX

Mrs. David f. Selix, invalid mother
OF T. A. and Sheridan Selix OF this
city, died at the home OF the former
at 3 o'clock Monday morning, April
10, 1922, aged 67 years and 25 days.
Mrs. Selix was born at Jude) now
Madison, Wis, and lived there until
seven years Of age, when she moved,
with her parents, Robert and Clarisa
Hanna, to Clarksville, Butler County,
Iowa, where she grew to womanhood.
On March Is, 1881 she was married
to David f. Selix of Dumont, Iowa,
in the vicinity Of which place they
established their home on a farm
which he owned. They lived in that
neighborhood until the autumn Of 1902
when they moved to a farm near
Austin, Minn.,. 1t was here that Mr..
Selix died in July, 1904, leaving her
the widowed mother Of II children.
Here also the eldest daughter, Wini-
fred died six months later. The other
10, six sons and four daughters, still
live to cherish the memory of their
faithful mother and dearest friends,
whose quiet life Of self sacrifice and
perfect devotion to the best interests
of her children, cannot help but in
spire in each the aesire to prove
worthy of her who spent her life that
we might live.
Since the death OF her husband she
has been an invalid, caused by a weak
ness of the heart, resulting in the
stiffening Of the joints, making her
almost helpless for several years.
However, with the help Of her eldest
children she continued to operate the
farm and maintain a home in Austin,
Mimi, until 1913. Since that time she
has lived with one or another of her
married children, but most of her time
in the home of her son, T. A. Selix.
1t was in his home that she received
the last loving tender care that she
so richly deserved and it is he and his
devoted wife, who will ever find com
fort in the thoughts that they were
permitted to care for her to the last.
my VIII app al do Ho Ole else
can, the splendid way in which she
tried to reciprocate for the patient
care that was given her.
She was always ambitious, ever
trying to render some little assistance
in the care Of the family, as well as
to make herself as little care as pos
sible. 1t was only during the last
month that she became reconciled to
her condition and she was confined
to her bed but a few days when she
passed away.
She was a lover of the beautiful
in fact and verse and it was a habit
to send some inspiring thought or gem
in her letters to her children.
She did not claim a~ffiliation with
any church organization, although at
one time she was a Baptist, but she
read the Scriptures and other religious
and seemed to adhere to
the simple belief that mortality was
result Of disobedience and that
death would end all suffering and all
while Immortality, she
as the gift Of Gods mercy
through resurrection in Jesus
to those who chose to avail
Of it's benificence, by seek
ing after glory, honor and immortality.
A short service was held by Rev.
Pierce Of the Baptist church. at the
home OF Sheridan Selix, TO Thir-
avenu on Wednesday, April
IL. which was attended by the family
Of Sheridan and T. A. Selix, Louis and
wife of Bruce and Roy Selix Of Austin.
The remains. accompanied by Roy,
we're sent to Dumont, Iowa, where the
other children, o. b. Selix Of Colorado
Colo, Mrs. John Zimmerman,
Beloit, Wis, Dewey and Rose or Aus
in and n brother. VIM. Hanna of
Iowa, together with old friends
neighbors met for service at the
Methodist church, after which she was
aid to rest beside her husband in |
cemetery, which is near that !
,lace.