GUSTAFSON, Edith (Colvin) 1902-1966

GUSTAFSON, COLVIN, PETTIT, YOCKEY, STEWART

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 7/24/2013 at 23:46:43

[Waterloo, Daily Courier, Sunday, April 17, 1966]

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Chapel of Memories West for Mrs. Edith Gustafson, 63, of 1426 Washington St., who died at 8:45 a. m. yesterday at Schoitz Memorial hospital, following a coronary occlusion.

The Rev. L. A. Kampfe, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Garden of Memories.

She had been a patient at the hospital for the past three weeks as a result of a coronary attack.

She was born on May 14, 1902 in Waterloo, the daughter of A. F. Colvin and Henrietta Pettit Colvin. She resided all of her life in Waterloo.

She was married June 1, 1931, in Cambridge, Illinois, to Carl Gustafson, who preceded her in death last August.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Clara Yockey, of 1416 Black Hawk Street; Mrs. Ruth Stewart of San Francisco, Calif.; and one brother, George Colvin, Sr., of 73 W. 13th St.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, nine sisters and her husband and by one son, who was killed in action in World War II.