PATTERSON, Etta Bell (Carter) 1878-1934

PATTERSON, CARTER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/19/2009 at 18:07:51

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Mrs. Robert H. Patterson died on Wednesday at her home a mile and a half east of the city, from pneumonia and complications.

Her four sons, Lynn F. Patterson, stationed at Fort Des Moines, Elon E. Patterson, of the U.S. Navy hospital in Mare Island, Cal., G. Randall Patterson, Kansas City, Missouri, and Harold H. Patterson, Clinton, Iowa, were called to her bedside last week.

Mrs. Patterson was born in Cascade, Iowa, on April 18, 1870, and at 14 years of age went to live in Chicago. She was employed by the Chicago Daily News for many years, in clerical work.

She was married in Chicago on February 19, 1902, to Robert H. Patterson and they came to Floyd county, locating on a farm four miles east of the city, where she lived until a few years ago when she moved to her present home.

Mrs. Patterson was very active in all organizations of First M.E. Church, and served as president of the Ladies Aid and Missionary societies. She also held the office of president and secretary of the Happy Hour Club.

Besides her husband and four sons, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. L. B. Carter, Bedford.

Services probably will be Friday at the M.E. Church. Interment will be in Riverside.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Thursday, July 5, 1934]
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NOTES:
According to David Patterson, her grandson, her full name was Etta Bell (Carter) Patterson.
She is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Charles City, beside her husband, Robert H. Patterson,
and her mother, Elizabeth (Beatty) Carter (1859-1947).

Additionally, Etta's son, Lynn, was Lynn Thomas Patterson (1914-1986). See an obituary for Lynn in this collection.

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