—Mr. William Aitken and Miss Mary
Cowan, of Dale township, were married
at the residence of the bride's mother
September 1, 1891, Rev. John A.
McAlmon officiating. The bride and
groom are numbered among Dale's
most worthy young people, and in their
new relation The Times, with their
large number of friends, hastens to offer
congratulations. Some sixty-five
invited guests were present, and the
presents received by the happy couple
were numerous and valuable.
MRS. MARY COWAN AITKEN
Mrs. Mary Cowan Aitken was born April 1st, 1865 at Seaforth, Ontario; the daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan. In 1875, the family moved to Peotone, Illinois; and seven years later to Paullina, Iowa; where they joined the little group of families who, coming directly from Scotland, had formed what is known in O'Brien County as the Scotch Settlement.
Mrs. Aitken was graduated from the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the class of 1880. After teaching a few yeas, she married William Aitken, going with him to their first home on the farm which still belongs to their children. Mr. Aitken died November 18, 1904, leaving five young children to her care. She bravely took up the task of filling the father's place as well as her own, bringing to it a persistence and resource that have been the admiration and pride of all who knew her.
Next to her family, her church was her chief interest. She was one of the early members of the Paullina Presbyterian Church, an on coming to Storm Lake, immediately identiefied herself with the church here. She was an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, organizing in Paullina a separate primary department, introducing there and again in Storm Lake, the Graded Department Lessons, which have been so successfully developed in both places. She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Society of her church, holdin in the latter the office of Treasurer as long as her strength allowed her.
Buena Vista College also held a large place in her thought. Throughout the thirteen years of her residence in Storm Lake, theere has always been one or more of her family in attendance, and her door always stood open for the convenience or pleasure of the studens. Int this association with young people, she renewed her own youth, and acquied a mental alertness unusual for a woman of her years.
As with thousands of other mothers, the work broke cruelly into her life, her only son seeing long and arduous service in France. Here again she did not falter, but thew all her energy into the organization of the Service Star Legion, serving as its first Secretary.
About two years ago, her health began to fail and almost before she admitted this, the disease was pronounced fatal and her time limited to a few years. Loving life, she made an heroic struggle to prolong it, but when the end was inevitable, she quietly turned her thoughts to the other world and surrounded by her children, passed peacefully away Sunday evening, March 15th, 1925.
She is survived by all her children; William G. and wife of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Misses Agnes and Esther of Storm Lake, Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Kemp of Galva, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Smith of Newberg, Oregon. Of her own family there remain four brothers and three sisters: Mr. Hector and wife, Robert, Andrew and wife and son, Bruce, Walter Cowan and
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Paullina Times, Paullina, Ia., Mar 26, 1925, p1
Cowan, of Dale township, were married
at the residence of the bride's mother
September 1, 1891, Rev. John A.
McAlmon officiating. The bride and
groom are numbered among Dale's
most worthy young people, and in their
new relation The Times, with their
large number of friends, hastens to offer
congratulations. Some sixty-five
invited guests were present, and the
presents received by the happy couple
were numerous and valuable.
MRS. MARY COWAN AITKEN
Mrs. Mary Cowan Aitken was born April 1st, 1865 at Seaforth, Ontario; the daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan. In 1875, the family moved to Peotone, Illinois; and seven years later to Paullina, Iowa; where they joined the little group of families who, coming directly from Scotland, had formed what is known in O'Brien County as the Scotch Settlement.
Mrs. Aitken was graduated from the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the class of 1880. After teaching a few yeas, she married William Aitken, going with him to their first home on the farm which still belongs to their children. Mr. Aitken died November 18, 1904, leaving five young children to her care. She bravely took up the task of filling the father's place as well as her own, bringing to it a persistence and resource that have been the admiration and pride of all who knew her.
Next to her family, her church was her chief interest. She was one of the early members of the Paullina Presbyterian Church, an on coming to Storm Lake, immediately identiefied herself with the church here. She was an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, organizing in Paullina a separate primary department, introducing there and again in Storm Lake, the Graded Department Lessons, which have been so successfully developed in both places. She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Society of her church, holdin in the latter the office of Treasurer as long as her strength allowed her.
Buena Vista College also held a large place in her thought. Throughout the thirteen years of her residence in Storm Lake, theere has always been one or more of her family in attendance, and her door always stood open for the convenience or pleasure of the studens. Int this association with young people, she renewed her own youth, and acquied a mental alertness unusual for a woman of her years.
As with thousands of other mothers, the work broke cruelly into her life, her only son seeing long and arduous service in France. Here again she did not falter, but thew all her energy into the organization of the Service Star Legion, serving as its first Secretary.
About two years ago, her health began to fail and almost before she admitted this, the disease was pronounced fatal and her time limited to a few years. Loving life, she made an heroic struggle to prolong it, but when the end was inevitable, she quietly turned her thoughts to the other world and surrounded by her children, passed peacefully away Sunday evening, March 15th, 1925.
She is survived by all her children; William G. and wife of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Misses Agnes and Esther of Storm Lake, Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Kemp of Galva, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Smith of Newberg, Oregon. Of her own family there remain four brothers and three sisters: Mr. Hector and wife, Robert, Andrew and wife and son, Bruce, Walter Cowan and
[Obituary. Just. Stops. Here.]
Paullina Times, Paullina, Ia., Mar 26, 1925, p1
—Mr. William Aitken and Miss Mary
Cowan, of Dale township, were married
at the residence of the bride's mother
September 1, 1891, Rev. John A.
McAlmon officiating. The bride and
groom are numbered among Dale's
most worthy young people, and in their
new relation The Times, with their
large number of friends, hastens to offer
congratulations. Some sixty-five
invited guests were present, and the
presents received by the happy couple
were numerous and valuable.
MRS. MARY COWAN AITKEN
Mrs. Mary Cowan Aitken was born April 1st, 1865 at Seaforth, Ontario; the daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan. In 1875, the family moved to Peotone, Illinois; and seven years later to Paullina, Iowa; where they joined the little group of families who, coming directly from Scotland, had formed what is known in O'Brien County as the Scotch Settlement.
Mrs. Aitken was graduated from the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the class of 1880. After teaching a few yeas, she married William Aitken, going with him to their first home on the farm which still belongs to their children. Mr. Aitken died November 18, 1904, leaving five young children to her care. She bravely took up the task of filling the father's place as well as her own, bringing to it a persistence and resource that have been the admiration and pride of all who knew her.
Next to her family, her church was her chief interest. She was one of the early members of the Paullina Presbyterian Church, an on coming to Storm Lake, immediately identiefied herself with the church here. She was an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, organizing in Paullina a separate primary department, introducing there and again in Storm Lake, the Graded Department Lessons, which have been so successfully developed in both places. She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Society of her church, holdin in the latter the office of Treasurer as long as her strength allowed her.
Buena Vista College also held a large place in her thought. Throughout the thirteen years of her residence in Storm Lake, theere has always been one or more of her family in attendance, and her door always stood open for the convenience or pleasure of the studens. Int this association with young people, she renewed her own youth, and acquied a mental alertness unusual for a woman of her years.
As with thousands of other mothers, the work broke cruelly into her life, her only son seeing long and arduous service in France. Here again she did not falter, but thew all her energy into the organization of the Service Star Legion, serving as its first Secretary.
About two years ago, her health began to fail and almost before she admitted this, the disease was pronounced fatal and her time limited to a few years. Loving life, she made an heroic struggle to prolong it, but when the end was inevitable, she quietly turned her thoughts to the other world and surrounded by her children, passed peacefully away Sunday evening, March 15th, 1925.
She is survived by all her children; William G. and wife of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Misses Agnes and Esther of Storm Lake, Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Kemp of Galva, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Smith of Newberg, Oregon. Of her own family there remain four brothers and three sisters: Mr. Hector and wife, Robert, Andrew and wife and son, Bruce, Walter Cowan and
[Obituary. Just. Stops. Here.]
Paullina Times, Paullina, Ia., Mar 26, 1925, p1
Cowan, of Dale township, were married
at the residence of the bride's mother
September 1, 1891, Rev. John A.
McAlmon officiating. The bride and
groom are numbered among Dale's
most worthy young people, and in their
new relation The Times, with their
large number of friends, hastens to offer
congratulations. Some sixty-five
invited guests were present, and the
presents received by the happy couple
were numerous and valuable.
MRS. MARY COWAN AITKEN
Mrs. Mary Cowan Aitken was born April 1st, 1865 at Seaforth, Ontario; the daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan. In 1875, the family moved to Peotone, Illinois; and seven years later to Paullina, Iowa; where they joined the little group of families who, coming directly from Scotland, had formed what is known in O'Brien County as the Scotch Settlement.
Mrs. Aitken was graduated from the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the class of 1880. After teaching a few yeas, she married William Aitken, going with him to their first home on the farm which still belongs to their children. Mr. Aitken died November 18, 1904, leaving five young children to her care. She bravely took up the task of filling the father's place as well as her own, bringing to it a persistence and resource that have been the admiration and pride of all who knew her.
Next to her family, her church was her chief interest. She was one of the early members of the Paullina Presbyterian Church, an on coming to Storm Lake, immediately identiefied herself with the church here. She was an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, organizing in Paullina a separate primary department, introducing there and again in Storm Lake, the Graded Department Lessons, which have been so successfully developed in both places. She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Society of her church, holdin in the latter the office of Treasurer as long as her strength allowed her.
Buena Vista College also held a large place in her thought. Throughout the thirteen years of her residence in Storm Lake, theere has always been one or more of her family in attendance, and her door always stood open for the convenience or pleasure of the studens. Int this association with young people, she renewed her own youth, and acquied a mental alertness unusual for a woman of her years.
As with thousands of other mothers, the work broke cruelly into her life, her only son seeing long and arduous service in France. Here again she did not falter, but thew all her energy into the organization of the Service Star Legion, serving as its first Secretary.
About two years ago, her health began to fail and almost before she admitted this, the disease was pronounced fatal and her time limited to a few years. Loving life, she made an heroic struggle to prolong it, but when the end was inevitable, she quietly turned her thoughts to the other world and surrounded by her children, passed peacefully away Sunday evening, March 15th, 1925.
She is survived by all her children; William G. and wife of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Misses Agnes and Esther of Storm Lake, Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Kemp of Galva, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Smith of Newberg, Oregon. Of her own family there remain four brothers and three sisters: Mr. Hector and wife, Robert, Andrew and wife and son, Bruce, Walter Cowan and
[Obituary. Just. Stops. Here.]
Paullina Times, Paullina, Ia., Mar 26, 1925, p1
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