De ENOS, Viola A. (Robinson) (Hunter) 1858-1926

ROBINSON, REDHEAD, BOOTH, SPURLING, LINCOLN, FOLLETT, DE ENOS

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Date: 12/5/2006 at 23:16:13

Obituary.
Viola Almira Robinson. Was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1858*, and passed away at her home in this city, after a brief illness, on the evening of Tuesday, February 16, 1926, at the age of nearly 78 years.

She came to Iowa with her parents when but six months old and grew to womanhood in the vicinity of Postville. As a young woman she learned the milliners trade, which vocation she followed through life, and in which she became so proficient that after successfully conduction a store in Postville for several years her services were sought and secured by various millineries in the larger cities of the east and south.

Upon the death of Mr. Redhead some 13 years ago, she immediately resigned her position in the east and returned to Postville to assist in the care of her aged and honored mother. And from that time until a few days before her demise she tenderly and thoughtfully patiently and devotedly continued that labor of love in so faithful a manner as to excite the admiration of us all.

Viola, as she was familiarly known to us all, was of a social and kindly disposition, ever ready with sympathy for those in sorrow and help for those in distress, and during her span of more than three score years and ten she drew about her a wide circle of friends who today mourn her passing and sincerely sympathize with those to whom she was bound by a closer tie.

She was twice married. She is survived by her aged mother, Mrs. George Redhead; one brother, Lincoln of Los Angeles, California; and two sisters, Mrs. H.E. Booth of Los Angeles and Mrs. Anna Spurling of Minneapolis. The funeral was held from the home at two o'clock last Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. R.F. Galloway. Interment in the Postville cemetery. The out of town relatives present at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lincoln and son Abe of Oelwein, and Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Follett of Clarmont.

Card of Thanks.
We hereby express to our neighbors and friends our deep appreciation of their many kind deeds and expressions of sympathy during the illness and burial of our beloved daughter and sister, Viola de Enos.

-Postville Herald, 2/25/1926
-daughter of David Robinson (he died of chronic diarrhea in the CW) & Sarah Howard; her marriages were to Henry Hunter & Henry de Enos
-note: see also the obit of Viola's mother, which helps to clarify this one, click the link below
-birth date is not accurate in this obituary, she is age 3 on the 1856 Iowa State census, Boardman twp. Clayton co. IA

Viola's mother's obit
 

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