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| Short Title | Obituary for Iona Annette Tinker Troyer | |
| Publisher | Star-Courier | |
| Source ID | S1905 | |
| Text | TROYER, Iona Annette Tinker Mrs. Iona Troyer Laid to Rest in Fairview Cemetery Funeral services for Mrs. Iona Troyer were held at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the undertaking parlors of Erickson & McHugh. The Rev. L.C. Trent, pastor of the First Baptist church was in charge, and music was by Mrs. John Pearl. The service was well attended and there were manu nice flowers, including floral tributes from California friends. Bearers were, J.P. Heaps, A. A. Pettitt, J.H. Bowen and Milton Lowery. Burial was in Fairview cemetery. Ione Annette Tinker was born at Hebron, New York, October 13, 1838. Her father, Charles E. Tinker, as a Baptist gospel minister, later moved to Annawan, Ill., where Ione was married to William Troyer, July 4 1855. To this union were born two girls and three boys, of whom two boys survive their mother: William L. Troyer, Etiwanda, Calif., and Albert M. Troyer, Fairhope, Alabama. After her husband's decease in 1899 she cast her lot with her youngest son, Leroy E Troyer and followed him to Porto (sic) Rico, then to Mexico and finally to Cailfornia, where the son was a faithful missionary of the Cross to the Spanish-speaking people. After the death of this son she continued to live with her daughter-in-law in Hollywood, Calif., until about eighteen months ago she was stricken with paralysis, at the home of her son in Etiwanda, and died at 5:30 Sabbath morning, April 23, 1922, aged 83 years, 6 months and 10 days. She leaves two sons, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren to keep a green sweet memory of her devoted selfsacrificing christian life. At the age of eleven she was baptized into fellowship with the Baptist church at Oxford, Ill., where her father was then pastor. In her later years her missoinary zeal grew intense and no sacrifice was too great if she might thereby save a few pennies or dollars, to send away in response to the heartrending appeals of overworked missionaries. In the early days of the temperance movement she entered the ranks of the W.C.T.U. and she never appeared in public thereafter without the white ribbon bow. Frances Willard was to her the uncrowned queen among women. And thus passes another noble, bloodwashed soul, a veritable mother-in-Isreal. Her going was swift for the chariot swung a little lower that Sabbath morning and she stepped on board and took a Sabbath's day journey home. Kewanee Daily Star-Courier (Henry Co., Il) Mon. May 1st 1922 p.4 Contributed by Pinky Davis | |
| Linked to | James Porter Heaps Alvin Allard Pettitt Charles E. Tinker Iona Annette Tinker Ada A. Troyer Albert M. Troyer Leroy E. Troyer Luliu E. Troyer William Troyer William Lincoln Troyer | |