Anna Ganser

GANSER, HEER

Posted By: Marge Ganser-Heibel (email)
Date: 3/7/2010 at 10:19:17

Telegraph Herald
Sept 2, 1942
Miss Anna Ganser

Miss Anna Ganser, 84, died at the St. Francis Home for the Aged, at 9:40 o'clock Wednesday morning following an illness extending over a period of several years. The body is at the Didesch Funeral Home, from where the funeral will be held to St. Paul's Cemetery at Worthington, Iowa. Miss Ganser was born in Buffalo, NY on Aug. 10, 1858 and came to Dubuque County as a child. She had resided here since. She was a housekeeper for many years for the late Right Reverend Monsignor George W. Heer at Worthington, Centralia, Dyersville, and St. Mary's Church in Dubuque. Surviving are a niece and several nephews in Leola, SD. Preceding her in death were her parents and one brother.

[submitter NOTE: Anna was actually born in Clarence, Erie NY ... information is from her church baptism record). Anna was buried at St Paul's Cemetery, Worthington, Dodge Twp., Dubuque Co. with her parents, Simon and Catherine (Grun) Ganser.