Eunice M. (Schoonmaker) Woodman (1849-1926)
SCHOONMAKER, WOODMAN, LEWIS
Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 4/2/2022 at 14:00:20
Death of Mrs. W.H. Woodman
Funeral services for Mrs. William H. Woodman were held Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Woodman's daughter, Mrs. Burt Watson, the Rev. Fremont Faul of the Sanborn Methodist church officiating.
The following tribute, which was read at the funeral, was also given to the Pioneer for publication:
Eunice M. Schoonmaker was born at Liberty, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania [sic] where she received her early education. At the age of 6, she came with her parents to Iowa, driving across country. The family settled at Fort Dodge, where they resided for many years, being among the first of the early pioneers. There she grew to womanhood.
On January 2, 1870, she was united in marriage with Wm. H. Woodman at Algona, Iowa. In the autumn of 1880, they came to Sanborn, about the time the Milwaukee railroad was built through here. Mr. Woodman being one of the first engineers on the new road. Here it was they established a home where they lived until 1913, when they moved to Des Moines, in which city they spent part of their time, having a permanent summer home at Pillsbury Point, West Lake Okoboji. Each winter they sojourned south and west. For the past ten years they wintered in California and it was there during the past winter than Mrs. Woodman became ill, arriving here about five weeks ago, where she was tenderly cared for at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Burt Watson, passing into the Great Beyond May 7, 1926.
The subject of this sketch was a woman of much ability and was loved and will be mourned by all who knew her. She was a loyal friend, and unselfish character, a faithful wife, and one of the truly great mothers of her time. She was possessed of great fortitude, was tender and kind, and believed in her quiet unassuming manner, many in distress; but was a firm believer in not letting her left hand know the acts of her right.
Mrs. Woodman affiliated with the Eastern Star chapter, the Woman's Relief Corps and the Klio club of Sanborn. In each she was a honored and helpful member. She loved nature in all her wanderings and loved nature's God, her love finding expression in lines of poetry. She longed to return to her home on the crest by the deep blue lake where she had spent so many happy days, but bent unflinching to to hr Master's will. We know that the great healer of sorrow and pain and woe, has guided her craft as she rowed and rowed through the dim shadows and long dark night, and she's resting today in God's port of light.
Her near surviving relatives are her husband, her daughter, Georgia, of Sanborn, one sister, Mrs. Emily Lewis of Sac City; three brothers, Alonzo of Ruthven, Iowa, and Luther Schoonmaker of Olympia, Washington, and Peter Schoonmaker of Spokane Washington; two grandchildren, William and Eunice Watson, students at Ames, Iowa.
A large circle of friends, old and young, mourn the death of this good woman.
Sanborn (Iowa) Pioneer, 12 May 1926, p1
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