INGALLS, ANNA (SMOLA)

INGALLS, SMOLA, GURIUS, ROBINSON, HILL, WEETS, MILLER, BERRYMAN, BECK

Posted By: bj denahey (email)
Date: 5/25/2007 at 16:03:30

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa
Friday, September 23, 1949
Mrs. Anna Ingalls, Lifetime Resident Of County, Dies

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1:30 at the Carson-Balster funeral home for Mrs. Anna Ingalls, lifelong resident of Maquoketa, who died Friday morning at Finley hospital, Dubuque.

Past 79 years of age, Mrs. Ingalls had suffered a broken hip at her farm home north of town July 20 and since that time had been hospitalized in Dubuque.

She had lived on the farm six miles north of Maquoketa for 64 years. Since the death of her husband she had operated the farm. In civic affairs of Perry township and Jackson county she had always been active, working for things which meant community progress.

Services were in charge of the Rev. Wilbur Wilcox of the Methodist church. Music was by Junior Hicks, accompanied by Mrs. Lola Wantz. Pallbearers were John Weets, Charles Weets, Don Miller and Percy Miller, Willis Berryman and P. A. P. Beck, all at one time farm neighbors of Mrs. Ingalls. Interment was in the family lot in Mount Hope cemetery.

Mrs. Ana Ingalls was born on a form six miles north of Maquoketa Dec. 12, 1869, a daughter of John J. and Josephine Smola. She attended a rural school and was graduated from Maquoketa high school in 1886. For a time she taught in the rural schools of Jackson county, one of them being the school she attended as a girl.

On June 7, 1891, she was united in marriage to Walter W. Ingalls also of Maquoketa. The home was first established in Bellevue and three years later the couple moved to Dubuque. After 12 years the family returned to the farm home on which Mrs. Ingalls had been born and on which she lived until her death.

She was a charter member of the American Legion auxiliary of Maquoketa, a member of Maple Leaf chapter of the Eastern Star, an active member of the Business and Professional Women's club and the Republican Women's club. Her community activities were evidenced by years of work and membership in the Red Cross, by her support of every program of road improvement. She was active in the affairs of the Farmer's Warehouse.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Josephine Gurius of Maquoketa; two sons, John J. of Des Moines and Willard of Monmouth; two daughters, Ethel Robinson of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Laura Hill of Oxford Junction. There remain also seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Walter.