Obituary: Portage County, Wisconsin: Mrs. Fred PUARIEA 

Gazette. 
Apr. 14, 1909, Wed. 

Mrs. Fred Puariea 
Dead Young Wife and Mother Passes Away At Her Home in Bowman, N.D., 

After Short Illness Mrs. Fred Puariea, who had resided at Bowman, N.D., for more 
than a year, passed away last Wednesday, April 7th. A telegram announcing her 
serious illness had been received by her mother a few days before, and she took 
the first train west, reaching her bedside two hours too late to bid her daughter 
a last farewell. Death was directly due to heart failure, preceded by bronchitis 
and pleurisy. Mrs. Puariea, who maiden name was Mary Leary, was born in the town 
of Stockton, Jan. 14, 1875, being the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Leary. 

After acquiring a thorough education, she was for some time one of the most 
successful school teachers in Portage county, and was also employed as cashier in 
the store of the late M. Clifford for some time. On April 10, 1901, she was married 
to Fred Puariea, and for several years thereafter they resided on a farm in the town 
of Plover. 

March 23, 1908, they left for Bowman, where Mr. Puariea engaged in business and was 
very successful. Mrs. Puariea was highly pleased with the western country, and enjoyed 
excellent health until about two weeks before her death, from which time the decline 
was rapid till the end came at the time stated. As little was known of her sickness 
here, the sudden news of her death came with double sadness. 

Mrs. Puariea was of a kind and noble disposition, one whose happy smile and gentle words 
cast a ray of sunshin on the path of life. Her taking away in the prime of life seems 
like the plucking of a beautiful flower to be transplanted in the realms of everlasting 
bliss. The body reached this city at 2 o'clock last Saturday morning, accompanied by 
the husband, little children and mother, and was taken to the home of the latter near 
Arnott. 

Besides her husband and three children, Maurice, aged 7, Margaret 5 and Grace 3 years, 
she leaves her mother and four brothers, Timothy, Chas., Ray and Henry, all well-to-do 
farmers of Stockton, and six sisters, Margaret, Nellie, Lizzie, Katherine, Cecil and 
Loretta, all of whom live at the family home. The four youngest are now students at the 
Normal. 

The father died about one year ago. 

The funeral took place from St. Mary's church, Custer, at 10:30 last Monday morning, 
with interment in the parish cemetery, Rev. C. Ulrich officiating. The pallbearers were 
Ernest Corrigan, Henry, Ray and Charles Dineen, Ed. and Emmet Leary, all cousins of the 
deceased. Nothwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the funeral was largely attended. 
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the husband and orphan children, as well 
as to the mother, brothers and sisters.







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