Sadie Alvina Barr was born on December 1, 1878, in Marcus, Iowa, the second child of six born to Gabriel M. and Margaret Rebecca (Ward) Barr.
Other Siblings:
Sister: Pearl Wanda (Pearlie) Barr, b. June 4, 1886, in Marcus.
She died in childhood in Marcus of scarlet fever.
Brother: Leslie Garfield Barr, b. September 3, 188_, in Marcus.
He died in childhood in Marcus of spinal meningitis.
Both are presumably buried in Marcus, but there are no grave markers, and the cemetery has no record of their burials.
Sadie was tiny, about 4' 10" or 4' 11."
She was an organist at the Methodist Church in Marcus.
Sadie married a widower, David Gowan, of Cleghorn, Iowa (2.2 miles from Marcus), on February 14, 1922, in Cherokee County, Iowa. His first wife, Mary Elizabeth Ward Gowan, a first cousin of Sadie's, had died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and left a son, Lyle W., and two daughters, Georgina Maude and Winifred Marie, whom Sadie raised. At first they lived in Cleghorn.
The Gowans drove out to California in a 1920s Ford in the early 1930s. Prior to 1932, they moved to Sunnymead, Riverside County, a little desert town, 9 miles from Riverside, the county seat, and about 3-4 miles from March Air Force Base.
David planted and managed an orange grove for Palmer and Lenore Ritchie, who lived at 2267 El Contento Drive, Hollywood, California.
Sadie was the pianist in the Congregational Church. Every morning, she would cook breakfast in her portable oven over a kerosene burner…toast and bacon. Sadie and David would read the "Upper Room" devotions aloud at breakfast. Sadie read the Scriptures, and David would pray spontaneously.
In 1948, word came from Georgina in California that Sadie had been opened up, that her intestines, colon, and uterus were full of cancer; and that she wasn't expected to live long. Her sister, Anna Maude immediately took a train from Boone, Iowa, on February 24 to be with her for the surgery. Maude stayed in Riverside with a good friend of Sadie's until April 9. She returned again for Sadie's funeral.
Information from notes from Sadie's niece, Jo Ann, Memorial #53169460. Submitted by Sadie's grandniece Angela, Member #48520699.
Other Siblings:
Sister: Pearl Wanda (Pearlie) Barr, b. June 4, 1886, in Marcus.
She died in childhood in Marcus of scarlet fever.
Brother: Leslie Garfield Barr, b. September 3, 188_, in Marcus.
He died in childhood in Marcus of spinal meningitis.
Both are presumably buried in Marcus, but there are no grave markers, and the cemetery has no record of their burials.
Sadie was tiny, about 4' 10" or 4' 11."
She was an organist at the Methodist Church in Marcus.
Sadie married a widower, David Gowan, of Cleghorn, Iowa (2.2 miles from Marcus), on February 14, 1922, in Cherokee County, Iowa. His first wife, Mary Elizabeth Ward Gowan, a first cousin of Sadie's, had died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and left a son, Lyle W., and two daughters, Georgina Maude and Winifred Marie, whom Sadie raised. At first they lived in Cleghorn.
The Gowans drove out to California in a 1920s Ford in the early 1930s. Prior to 1932, they moved to Sunnymead, Riverside County, a little desert town, 9 miles from Riverside, the county seat, and about 3-4 miles from March Air Force Base.
David planted and managed an orange grove for Palmer and Lenore Ritchie, who lived at 2267 El Contento Drive, Hollywood, California.
Sadie was the pianist in the Congregational Church. Every morning, she would cook breakfast in her portable oven over a kerosene burner…toast and bacon. Sadie and David would read the "Upper Room" devotions aloud at breakfast. Sadie read the Scriptures, and David would pray spontaneously.
In 1948, word came from Georgina in California that Sadie had been opened up, that her intestines, colon, and uterus were full of cancer; and that she wasn't expected to live long. Her sister, Anna Maude immediately took a train from Boone, Iowa, on February 24 to be with her for the surgery. Maude stayed in Riverside with a good friend of Sadie's until April 9. She returned again for Sadie's funeral.
Information from notes from Sadie's niece, Jo Ann, Memorial #53169460. Submitted by Sadie's grandniece Angela, Member #48520699.
Sadie Alvina Barr was born on December 1, 1878, in Marcus, Iowa, the second child of six born to Gabriel M. and Margaret Rebecca (Ward) Barr.
Other Siblings:
Sister: Pearl Wanda (Pearlie) Barr, b. June 4, 1886, in Marcus.
She died in childhood in Marcus of scarlet fever.
Brother: Leslie Garfield Barr, b. September 3, 188_, in Marcus.
He died in childhood in Marcus of spinal meningitis.
Both are presumably buried in Marcus, but there are no grave markers, and the cemetery has no record of their burials.
Sadie was tiny, about 4' 10" or 4' 11."
She was an organist at the Methodist Church in Marcus.
Sadie married a widower, David Gowan, of Cleghorn, Iowa (2.2 miles from Marcus), on February 14, 1922, in Cherokee County, Iowa. His first wife, Mary Elizabeth Ward Gowan, a first cousin of Sadie's, had died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and left a son, Lyle W., and two daughters, Georgina Maude and Winifred Marie, whom Sadie raised. At first they lived in Cleghorn.
The Gowans drove out to California in a 1920s Ford in the early 1930s. Prior to 1932, they moved to Sunnymead, Riverside County, a little desert town, 9 miles from Riverside, the county seat, and about 3-4 miles from March Air Force Base.
David planted and managed an orange grove for Palmer and Lenore Ritchie, who lived at 2267 El Contento Drive, Hollywood, California.
Sadie was the pianist in the Congregational Church. Every morning, she would cook breakfast in her portable oven over a kerosene burner…toast and bacon. Sadie and David would read the "Upper Room" devotions aloud at breakfast. Sadie read the Scriptures, and David would pray spontaneously.
In 1948, word came from Georgina in California that Sadie had been opened up, that her intestines, colon, and uterus were full of cancer; and that she wasn't expected to live long. Her sister, Anna Maude immediately took a train from Boone, Iowa, on February 24 to be with her for the surgery. Maude stayed in Riverside with a good friend of Sadie's until April 9. She returned again for Sadie's funeral.
Information from notes from Sadie's niece, Jo Ann, Memorial #53169460. Submitted by Sadie's grandniece Angela, Member #48520699.
Other Siblings:
Sister: Pearl Wanda (Pearlie) Barr, b. June 4, 1886, in Marcus.
She died in childhood in Marcus of scarlet fever.
Brother: Leslie Garfield Barr, b. September 3, 188_, in Marcus.
He died in childhood in Marcus of spinal meningitis.
Both are presumably buried in Marcus, but there are no grave markers, and the cemetery has no record of their burials.
Sadie was tiny, about 4' 10" or 4' 11."
She was an organist at the Methodist Church in Marcus.
Sadie married a widower, David Gowan, of Cleghorn, Iowa (2.2 miles from Marcus), on February 14, 1922, in Cherokee County, Iowa. His first wife, Mary Elizabeth Ward Gowan, a first cousin of Sadie's, had died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and left a son, Lyle W., and two daughters, Georgina Maude and Winifred Marie, whom Sadie raised. At first they lived in Cleghorn.
The Gowans drove out to California in a 1920s Ford in the early 1930s. Prior to 1932, they moved to Sunnymead, Riverside County, a little desert town, 9 miles from Riverside, the county seat, and about 3-4 miles from March Air Force Base.
David planted and managed an orange grove for Palmer and Lenore Ritchie, who lived at 2267 El Contento Drive, Hollywood, California.
Sadie was the pianist in the Congregational Church. Every morning, she would cook breakfast in her portable oven over a kerosene burner…toast and bacon. Sadie and David would read the "Upper Room" devotions aloud at breakfast. Sadie read the Scriptures, and David would pray spontaneously.
In 1948, word came from Georgina in California that Sadie had been opened up, that her intestines, colon, and uterus were full of cancer; and that she wasn't expected to live long. Her sister, Anna Maude immediately took a train from Boone, Iowa, on February 24 to be with her for the surgery. Maude stayed in Riverside with a good friend of Sadie's until April 9. She returned again for Sadie's funeral.
Information from notes from Sadie's niece, Jo Ann, Memorial #53169460. Submitted by Sadie's grandniece Angela, Member #48520699.
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