This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Magel, Crawford, Gore, Maxted Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4172 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. November 9, 1933. "Long Time Citizen Called".-- Mary D. Brown, oldest of four children of Henry P. and Mary l. Brown, was born near Peoria, Illinois, January 13, 1857 and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dwight Crawford, in Sidney, November 3, 1933. In 1866 she came with her parents to Iowa, locating on farm near the present village of Anderson. Here she grew to womanhood, graduating from Sidney high school, later attending Tabor college, and for a number of years taught in the rural schools of Fremont county. April 24, 1878, she was united in marriage with Theodore S. Magel and lived on a farm northeast of Sidney until Mr. Magel's death in 1896. Soon after her husband's demise she came to Sidney where she resided for nearly thirty years. Her marriage was blessed with six children: Henry S., deceased; Nettie I. Gore and Edith Crawford of Sidney; Lucy, deceased; Carrie B . Gore of Red Oak; Paul Magel of Shenandoah. She is survived by ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Emma Maxted of Shenandoah. For nearly three score years Sidney had been the home of Mrs. Magel until about four years ago when she moved to Shenandoah at which place she had since resided except for periods when she visited her children. She had been in feeble health for several months, and was visiting at the Crawford home when her final illness occurred. Mrs. Magel was a member of trhe Presbyterian church of Sidney and during her residence here was active in christian service. Under the ministration of that church funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, and burial was beside her husband and departed children in the Sidney cemetery.