OBITUARY: Frances J. (Duncan) Chambers, 1882-1921, Mitchell County, Iowa
              
[Mitchell County Press-April 27, 1921]




                           Obituary-Chambers
 
Frances J. Chambers, was born in Unison county, Vermont, Jan. 22, 1882.
She was the daughter of Henry Duncan and Caroline Boynton Duncan.  She
moved with her parents Cooksville Wis. when she was 17 years of age and
completed her education at the normal school of Plattsbur, Wis.  While
attending school there she became especially interested in the religion
of Jesus Christ and her whole subsequent life was dominated by a passion
for her Master.

She was married to John D. Chambers in the year 1867, and made Mitchell
her home ever after.  Here she joined the Congregational church and for
more that half a century was at all times a competent and earnest worker
in the church and Sabbath school, as a teacher in which she had especial
gifts and as a pupil in her class, I can testify to her marvelous
efficiency.  During those fifty years of service in the Sabbath school,
perhaps hundreds of the pupils have gone out into the world, scattering
the precious seed she had sown.  Many now from the school in which she
taught rever the memory of her loving service.

Regularly in her seat at divine worship, she was an inspiration to her
pastor.  April 22nd, she passed away peacefully at the home of her sister,
Mrs. S. W. Melendy, in Minneapolis.  Her remains are at rest in beautiful
Oak Grove cemetery at Mitchell, Iowa.

Funeral services were held in her old home where she had resided for more
than half a century.  Rev. O.M. Van Sweringen officiating.

The deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Blackman and Mrs.
Adele Melendy, both of Minneapolis, Minn., a daughter, Mrs. A. D. Smith,
of Fulton, Mo., and a granddaughter, Mrs. O.N. Peay, of Little Rock, Ark.


                                                                         
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