FERRIS, Augusta Johanna Henrietta (Miller) 1863-1933

FERRIS, HAGER, MILLER, PADDEN, SEELIG

Posted By: Joyce Reilly (email)
Date: 2/23/2018 at 16:14:52

Mrs. K. V. Ferris Dies Last Week

BORN IN GERMANY; CAME TO IOWA IN CHILDHOOD’ WAS 69 YEARS OF AGE

Mrs. K. V. Ferris died last Wednesday, March 22nd at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Otto Hager of Ludlow township. She had been an invalid for many years.

Augusta Miller was born in Germany June 24, 1863. She came to America with her parents when she was four years old, and they settled in Wisconsin. She received her education in the rural and common schools of that state, and when a young lady she came to Iowa where she secured employment. On September 26, 1882, she married Kendrick Ferris in Waukon, and they celebrated their golden wedding last year.

Six children were born to them, one daughter, Ethel, having passed away in infancy. Two daughters, Mrs. Oscar Padden of Castalia and Mrs. Otto Hager of Ludlow township, and three sons, Ray of Mason City, Floyd of Lansing, and Earl of Miles City, Montana, together with the husband and father are left to mourn her death. She also is survived by one sister, address unknown, and two brothers, Fred of Woodland, California, and Lew F. Seeleg of Cedar Rapids.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 1:00 o’clock from the Hager home in Ludlow, by Reverend L. L. Bond, and from the Presbyterian church at 2:00 o’clock conducted by Reverend R. L. Van Nice, assisted by Reverend Bond. Interment was made in Oakland cemetery.

Waukon Republican and Standard And The Democrat
Waukon, Iowa, Wednesday, March 29, 1933
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Notes:
Ethel Ferris infant daughter of K. V. Ferris and Augusta Johanna Henrietta (Miller) was born March 17, 1885; died March 5, 1886

Lew F. Seeleg – name should be Louis F. Seelig

CARDS OF THANKS

We desire to thank our neighbors and friends for their kind assistance and expressions of sympathy during our recent bereavement in the death of our beloved wife and mother.

K. V. Ferris and Children

Waukon Republican and Standard And The Democrat
Waukon, Iowa, Wednesday, March 29, 1933
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