Anna Klug 1893-1929

KLUG, SIDWELL, SMITH

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 1/15/2019 at 10:24:46

4 July 1929 - West Branch Times

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Friends of Mrs. H. L. Klug (Anna Sidwell Klug) were shocked and grieved to learn of her death, which occurred at Chicago Thursday morning of last week, following an operation. She leaves her husband and a baby daughter a few weeks old.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. Herman Smith, at Iowa City, with burial at West Branch.

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Anna Sidwell was born at West Branch, Iowa, May 12, 1893, and passed away Thursday, June 27, 1929, at 9:45 a.m., at West Suburban hospital, Oak Park, Ill.

She was the youngest child of Wilson T. and Isabel Sidwell, a birthright member of the Society of Friends.

She was graduated from the West Branch high school in 1911, and from the Iowa State Teacher's College in 1916.

She excelled as a teacher and held principalship and superintendency in different schools.

After her marriage in 1918 to Harold Klug, the two worked happily together at their chosen profession, which was teaching.

Characterisitic of her loving devotion to her parents, was the giving up of all other interests during the last year and a half of her mother's life to minister personally to her comfort.

The underlying motive of her lovely character is revealed in the summing up of her ideals, as found among her personal possessions.

The fine significance of these aspirations is the fact that those who knew her best recognize with what fidelity she held to them, as exemplified by her life.

To bring joy to every one, a creator of happiness by being herself happy; to radiate love to all, to be considerate, to ever find enjoyment and interest in others and in self, to do her best, and to pray constantly.

These were the inspiring high lights of her desire.

As a wife and home maker, hers were the highest standards.

The last month of her life was a fitting culmination of a happy life, when their exquisite joy in their little daughter perfectly completed the happy home which she and her husband had created; a fact which adds pathos to the grief of her loved ones.

Surviving are the bereaved husband, Harold Klug, and the infant daughter, Frances Ann, of River Forest, Ill., her father, W. T. Sidwell, and sister Clara Sidwell of Pasadena, Calif., two brothers, Clarence of Riverside, Calif., and Oliver of Salem, Ohio, and a sister Luella Smith of Iowa City.