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August 8, 2018 By

Mary Bartlett

Born: August 3rd, 1874

Died: June 23rd, 1957

Obituary

Mrs. Mary Bruen Bartlett, 83, died in her sleep at 9:50 pm June 23, after a long illness, at the home of her son, John B. Bartlett, 22 Draper St., where she had resided since 1950.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm today at the Bookhout Funeral Home, with the Rev. Boyd McCleary, minister of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be Saturday, June 29, in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
Mrs. Bratlett was born Aug. 3, 1874m in LaHarpe, Ill., daughter of Nathaniel and Adelaide (Peasley) Bruen. Early in life, she moved across the Mississippi River to Burlington, Iowa where she grew into maturity.
She took normal school training in Burlington and in the early 1890s completed two years at the University of Chicago. She taught in the Allegany Preparatory school for Girls near Pittsburgh, Pa., and later at Miss Jenkins School for Girls in Yonkers. Her only brother, John was killed in a wheat harvesting accident in Naton, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1907, and her only sister, Miss Lucretia Bruen, died in Burlington, Jan. 25, 1954.
She was married in 1907 to Josiah Bartlett, head of mathematics at Riverview Academy for Boys, Poughkeepsie. In 1912, Mr. Bartlett transferred to the Gilman Country School for Boys, Baltimore, Md., where he taught until his retirement in 1939. Mrs. Bartlett was active in many Baltimore women’s societies, especially the League of Women Voters, and the Baltimore Civic Club, as well as many Gilman faculty activities.
Upon their retirement, they returned to Mrs. Bartlett’s old home in Burlington, where Mr. Bartlett died in September 1943. Mrs. Bartlett continued to live there until she moved to Oneonta in 1959.
She is survived besides her son, by two grandchildren, Susan H. and J. Bruen Bartlett of Oneonta.

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