KERR, Annie (Dodge) 1868-1946

GAGE, DODGE, KERR, BENSON, PARSONS, WORMBY, MCFALLS, MCELHINNEY

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 9/23/2004 at 19:07:19

Mrs. CHARLES M. (Annie Dodge) KERR 1868-1946

Mrs. Annie Kerr, 77, passed away last Thursday at the Postville hospital. She had been in failing health for the past eight months.

Funeral services were held at the Schutte Funeral Home and at the Community Presbyterian church Saturday afternoon, with Rev. R. F. Galloway of Cedar Rapids officiating. Interment was in Postville cemetery.

Annie Dodge, a daughter of Joel and Sarah Gage Dodge, was born on the Joel Dodge homestead six miles north of Newton, Iowa, October 4, 1868.

On February 26, 1890, she was united in marriage with Charles M. Kerr and came to Postville to live on the Kerr farm on what is known as Henderson Prairie. They continued to live on the farm until November 1926, when they moved to Postville, residing here since.

To this union were born five children, of whom the following survive; Mrs. Kate Benson of LaMoille; George of Decorah; Kenneth, who lives on the home farm; Malcolm a professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. A daughter, Helen, preceded her in death in November 1930, and her husband passed away April 14, 1931.

Mrs. Kerr is also survived by 17 grandchildren who were all present for the funeral, except Elmer Benson who is now in the service and stationed at Dachau, Germany; four sisters and one brother, Mrs. Bess Parsons, Mrs. Imogene Wormby, and Wallace Dodge, all of Newton; Mrs. Mabel McFalls of New Westminster, B. C., Canada; Mrs. Dorothy McElhinney of Romaland, California.

She was very active as a member of the Community Presbyterian church and the Ladies' Aid Society. She belonged to the Daughters of American Revolution and the Birthday Club.

People from out of town her for the funeral were Rev. R. F. Galloway of Cedar Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Benson, Barbara, Charles, James and Betty of LaMoille; Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm H. Kerr, Burton, Janet and David of Knoxville, Tenn.; George Kerr, Ruth, Robert and Richard of Decorah; Mrs. Bess Parsons and Wallace Dodge of Newton, Mrs. W. E. Cornell of Ossian, Mabel Hansen and Olaf Hansen of Waukon.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1946, from my mother's obituary collection.

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