KOBER, Olive R. (Van Vliete) 1875-1949

KOBER, VAN VLIETE, DUNLAVEY

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 8/23/2013 at 23:18:20

[Waterloo Daily Courier, June 24, 1949]

Mrs. Olive Kober, 74, passed away at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo Thursday. She suffered a broken leg Friday, when she fell from a ladder at her apartment in Traer. Upon being taken to the Waterloo hospital, she was found to be suffering from a severe gall bladder infection and an operation was performed Wednesday, from which she failed to revive.

Born Olive Van Vliete, on a farm northeast of Traer, Dec. 12, 1875, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Van Vliete. She married at the home of her parents to John G. Kober, Jan 16, 1895. The couple farmed for five years in Geneseo Township, and later farmed four miles northeast of Traer. Later they quit farming and moved to Waterloo, where Mr. Kober was employed by Waterloo Gas Engine Co.

In 1924, they moved to Minnesota, where they farmed until 1931, when they retired and moved to Traer. Mr. Kober died in 1940. The couples's two daughters, their only children, Ruth and Doris, were victims of a train wreck near Greene, Ia., on June 3, 1916. Mrs. Kober's mother met death in the same accident.

Olive leaves three brothers, Blaine Van Vliete, South Haven, Minn; James, Waterloo, and Fred, in California; one sister, Mrs. Charles Dunlavey, Traer. Two sisters preceded her in death.

Private services will be Saturday afternoon at the States funeral home in Traer; burial in Elmwood Cemetery at Waterloo. The body is at the funeral home.