Frost, Mrs. Anna 1859-1950

FROST, MALINE, GUSTAFSON

Posted By: Jo (email)
Date: 6/11/2007 at 20:32:09

MRS. A. FROST DIES SUNDAY; 91 YEARS OLD

Mrs. Anna Frost, mother of Dr. E. J. Frost of Maquoketa, died Sunday afternoon in a Moline hospital where she had been a patient since Wednesday.

Funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Anderson-Swanson funeral home in Orion. The Rev. John W. Oberg officiated and burial was made in the Lutheran cemetery.

The former Anna Maline who was born March 22, 1859 in Sweden and came to the Orion community when she was five years old. She married Peter Olof Frost Dec. 4, 1878 in Andover. He died in 1926.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Millie Gustafson of Orion; five sons, Dr. Edwin J. of Maquoketa, William of Orion, Leander of Worthington, Minn., Chester of Davenport and Archie of Fonda, Iowa; seven neices and nephews, 1 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and on great-grandson.

DEATH DATE: October 29, 1950
SOURCE: Private collection of newspaper clippings

NOTE: The information regarding grandchildren is copied from the newspaper and it appears to be a typo that was in the paper.