The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-03-02
q THERESA SOPHIA GLE.
Old Resident Passes Away Suddenly
Monday Afternoon at Her
Home in Princeton.

Monday afternoon Mrs. Theresa
Gle received the final summons and
quietly slipped away. Mrs. Gle had
not been we'll for several years and
the last few months her heart had
been seriously affected. Although the
end came without warning it was not
altogether unexpected by the mem
bers of the family and her friends who
knew her condition.
The funeral was held this afternoon
in the Congregational church. Rev
w. C. Besselievre conducted the ser.
vices. Mrs. George Ross accompanied
by Mrs. Ben Soule sang two solos. In,
terment was in the family lot at Oak
Knoll cemetery.
Theresa Sophia Wilson was born
May 20, 1914, in Clinton county, Iowa
She was the daughter of D. D. Will.
son, M. D., D. D., physician and Bap-
fist minister. In 1864 she was mar
ried to DR.. Ephraim C. Gle at Gill;
ford, Wabasha county, MINI. Eight
children were born of the union, four
boys and four girls: L. D., Ada, Ida,
Webb, Eddie, Emma, Dolly and Eph-
rain, jr. Of these children there are
but two living now, Dolly of Prince
ton and Ephraim of Tacoma, Wash
|ington.
DIR. and Mrs. Gle came to Princeton
just 40 years ago. They arrived here
on the evening of March 1, 1873, after
driving from Cambridge and being de-
tanned one night in Spencer Brook by
la blizzard.
+ or almost two decades DR.. and Mrs.
Gle labored together in this village,
the physicians wife playing no less
important part than her husband in
doing everything in her power to as
sist in his work. The public in general
fails to realize the assistance that a
wife who is real helpmate can render
her husband, the physician. In those
early days the country practitioner
was called upon to make long, weari-
some drives in all sorts of weather.
Travelling facilities were of course not
as good as they are today and the
country was more sparsely settled. It
was the wife who assisted the doctor
in preparing for his journey and kept
the home in readiness for his return.
DR.. Gle died in 1892.
Those who knew Mrs. Gle most in
timately say that she gave her COM
plete life in the service of her husband
and children. None son, Eddie, died
in Cambridge before the family moved
to Princeton During the severe
diphtheria epidemic in the spring of
1880, they lost two other children,
Webb and Emma. At the death of
Ada Cleary, Mr.. and Mrs. Gle took to
their own home her two babies, Eva
and Alvah. After DR.. Giles death,
Mrs. Gle managed to keep together
her two youngest children, Dolly and
and Ephraim and her grandchildren,
Eva and Alvah, and provided a COM
Portable home for them.
Mrs. Gle will long be remembered
in this village as a quiet, home-loving
body, kind neighbor and a mother
who devoted her whole life to her
family.
Those in attendance at the funeral
from out of town are Mrs. Ernest Rip
pom Of Wayne, Neb., a granddaughter;
Miss Rhoda Sipprell, a neice, and Fred
Howard Of Minneapolis.
The sympathy of the community is
extended to the surviving members Of
the family, especially to Dolly, who
has made her home with her mother
for the past several years and will
therefore feel the loss most keenly.