ANDERSON, Olive 1861-1944

ANDERSON, EDEN, MORGAN, FREEMAN

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Date: 1/2/2005 at 11:41:56

Waterloo Courier, 14 Nov 1944

Funeral services for Mrs. Olive Anderson, 83, of 311 Oak Lawn avenue, who died of a heart ailment and complications at 5:30 a. m. Sunday in Presbyterian hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Methodist church at Gravity, Ia, her former residence. Burial will be in that city.

The body will remain at the O'Keefe and Towne funeral home until Wednesday morning.

Mrs. Anderson, who resided for the past nine years with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Else Eden, had been a patient at the hospital for 10 weeks.

She was born Jan. 8, 1861, on a farm near Cuba, Ill., daughter of Daniel and Nancy Morgan, and came with her parents by covered wagon to Taylor county, In., where she resided during her early life. She was twice married. First to Fred Freeman in 1887 at Gravity. He died the following year. In 1896 she was married to Samuel Anderson and after his death in 1910 she moved to Clarinda and later to Des Moines before coming to Waterloo to reside with her daughter.

Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Methodist church at Gravity.

Surviving are the daughter and two sons, Glade L. Anderson, Hotel Ellis and Fred L. Freeman, Omaha, Neb; three sisters, Mrs. Bitha Marshall, Bedford, Ia; Mrs. Sarah Martin, Gravity, and Mrs. Charles Fields, Clear Lake; and four brothers, Daniel Morgan, Springfield, Mo; Jess Morgan, Omaha, Joe Morgan and Cecil Morgan, both of Gravity; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.