Burling, Anna L. 1884 - 1971

BURLING, PAEGEL, STAACK, HAGENSICK, SCHROEDER, DAHL, GOSSMAN

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/29/2016 at 13:54:09

Clayton County Register, Wed., 14 April 1971.

Funeral services for Anna L. Burling, 86, were held at Peace United Church of Christ Saturday, April 10, at 2 p.m. Burial was in the East Side Cemetery. The Rev. A. F. Volle, pastor, officiated.

Mrs. Burling died Thursday, April 8, at Central Community Hospital in Elkader where she had been for eight days.

A daughter of Carl and Sophia Paegel Staack, she was born in Read Township on November 3, 1884. She was educated in the rural school of her community. She began employment as a young woman, working in Elkader for Reagan's, for Dr. McGrath and for H. H. Hagensick.

She was a member of P.E.O., the Cemetery Association, Peace United Church of Christ, Women's Fellowship, Martha-Esther Circle, and Senior Women's Circle.

She was baptized and confirmed at Clayton Center on February 8, 1885 and on April 3, 1898.

On July 7, 1932, she was married to Frank Hagensick. The husband died on May 5, 1938. Then on December 18, 1945, she was married to William Hale Burling in a ceremony at Iowa City. Mr. Burling died on March 30, 1969.

She is survived by three stepchildren, Carl Burling, Rhode Island; Robert Burling, Postville and Mrs. Berniece Schroeder, Columbia, Mo.; by two brothers, William Staack, Elkader and Arthur Staack, Volga; and by two sisters, Mrs. Sophia Dahl, Elkader and Mrs. Louise Gossman, Lutheran Nursing Home, Strawberry Point. There are several nieces and nephews.

For her last rites Dale Tieden sang "How Great Thou Art" and "In the Garden". He was accompanied by Jean Welsh at the organ. Pallbearers were: Jack Dittmer, Elmer Schnack, Glendor Freitag, Lloyd Biederman, Charles Hansel and W. B. Fassbinder.