ROBINSON, Elizabeth Mayre (Kossack, Tatum) 1872-1947

ROBINSON, KOSSACK, TATUM, CORELL

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 8/19/2011 at 11:12:10

Conduct Rites Sunday For
Mrs. Robinson

Des Moines Minister
Officates: Burial in
Carpenter Cemetery

Funeral services were held in the Evangelical United Brethren church in Nora Springs at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, 75, who succumbed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at the home of Mrs. Roy Baker, where she had been a patient for the past six months. She had been ill with an incurable malady for a number of years.

The Rev. J.O. Iverson of Des Moines conducted the services and was assisted by the Rev. David Lang. Pall bearers were three grandsons and three nephews: Merle Tatum, James Tatum, Elvis Faught, Ronald Burroughs, all of Mason City; and Carl and Earl Swenson of Austin, Minn. Burial was in the Newberg township cemetery at Carpenter. Mrs. L. A. Bascon and Mrs. Margaret Weir sang "Lead Kindly Light", 'There is a Blessed Hope" and "Abide With Me" at the services. Ladies of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Mason City had charge of the flowers.

Mrs. Robinson, nee Elizabeth Kossack, daughter of August and Mesa Kossack, was born in Germany on April 17, 1872, and came to the United States with her parents when she was 11 years old, settling in Mason City.

She lived in Mason City until her marriage to Humphrey Tatum. She and her husband farmed for about fifteen years between Nora Springs and Carpenter and moved to Carpenter in 1910, where Mr. Tatum died in 1913. Three children were born to them: Matthew, Frank and a daughter, Maybelle. Maybelle preceded her mother in death, in September 1929.

She was married to Alfred Robinson at St. Ansgar on August 24, 1917. They lived at What Cheer for four years and then moved to Nora Springs, where a daughter was born to them. Mr.Robinson died March 30, 1937.

Surviving are two sons, Mathew Tatum, Mason City, and Frank Tatum, Duluth, Minn.; one daughter, Mrs. Arnold Corell, Nora Springs, a brother August Kossack, Pasadena, Calif.; 12 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and several nieces.

Mrs.Robinson had attended several churches during her life and for the last seven years had been a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church.

Among the relatives from out of town who attended the services were: Mathew Tatum, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Tatum, Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Faught, Mr. and Mrs. James Tatum, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Burroughts, Mrs. Rose Rassmusson and Miss Lucy Lehman, all from Mason City; Mrs. Frances McCourt of Plymouth; Mrs. Mary Swenson, Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Bushman, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swenson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Swenson and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thiele, all of Austin, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lorenzon, Miss Geraldine Lorenzon, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pitzenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Roine, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Vosburg and Mrs. Bertha Henafir, all of Burchinal.

Nora Springs Advertiser
May 1947

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Note: The 1940 census for Nora Springs, Iowa, sheet 10B, shows Elizabeth M. Robinson, age 67, born in Germany, and presently a widow.
(Credit: K. Kittleson, 7/2016)