CARSE, Harriet Elizabeth (Atkinson)

CARSE, ATKINSON, THOMPSON, HODGSON

Posted By: Doug Atkinson (email)
Date: 3/29/2009 at 07:45:34

Note: Harriet Atkinson Carse was the daughter of Samuel Kitchen Atkinson and Mary Elizabeth (Cobb) Atkinson.

Published in The Oakland Acorn
March, 1970.

1871 - HARRIET CARSE - 1970

Mrs. Harriet Carse dies at 98;
was Oakland's oldest resident

Funeral services for Mrs. Har-
riet Carse, 98, were held Monday,
March 23 at Vieth Funeral Home.
Oakland's oldest citizen, she died
March 20 at Colonial Manors
Nursing Home, three weeks be-
fore her 99th birthday.

Harriet E. Atkinson was born
April 12, 1871 in Fremont County
near Sidney. In 1876 she and her
parents, along with five brothers
and two sisters, came by covered
wagon to Oakland (then Big Grove.)

She attended rural school here
and attended high school at Ida
Grove. She studied normal train-
ing at Drake University and
taught schools in this area.

On December 31, 1899, she
was married to Robert H. Carse.
They lived on a farm west of
Oakland where two children
were born, Donald Timothy and
Stella Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Carse
celebrated their golden wedding
in June 1947, six months be-
fore her husband's death.

Mrs. Carse was the last surviv-
or of seven founders of the Wo-
men's Federated Club in Oakland.
She was Belknap Chairman of the
Red Cross during World War I
and a past county president of
the Women's Christian Temper-
ance Union.

A long-time member of Sharon
Presbyterian Church, she was one
of the first organists and Sunday
School teacher there.

She was a charter member of
the new Oakland Historical So-
ciety.

Survivors include her daughter,
Stella Thompson of Oakland; a
granddaughter, Natalie Hodgson
of San Rafael, Calif.; two great-
grandchildren, Wells and Elizabe-
beth Hodgson.

The Rev. Marion Floyd officiat-
ed at funeral services. Bearers
were Claire Vance, Gene Schuster,
Donald Wulff, Willard Fritz, Mar-
ion Kullborn and Milton Camp-
bell.

Burial was at Belknap Cemetery
in Oakland.