Annis, Celestine Nora 1911-2001

ANNIS, CURTIS, HENDERSON, HORSWELL, ANDERSON

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Date: 2/1/2005 at 16:26:35

KENOSHA, Wis. — Celestine "Toots" Nora Annis, 90, of Kenosha, Wis., formerly of Newton, died of heart failure Sunday, Oct. 28, at Washington Manor Nursing Home in Kenosha. Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Pence Funeral Home in Newton with the Rev. Dave Thomas officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home where family will be available from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Memorials will be accepted in her name to First Christian Church or the American Cancer Society.

The daughter of Charles Malcolm and Nora Curtis Henderson, she was born Sept. 16, 1911, in Tarkio, Mo. She graduated from Colfax High School. On Nov. 23, 1929, she married Don L. Annis in Newton.

Mrs. Annis was employed by Dun-Lap in the 1950s, the Maytag Hotel Coffee Shop in the 1930s and was a silk-screen operator for the Vernon Company for 20 years, retiring in 1974. She was a member of First Christian Church. She lived in Newton from 1929 until 1993 when she moved to Kenosha.

Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Shirley Anderson of Bella Vista, Ark., and Janet and Vic Horswell of Kenosha, Wis., five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a brother, Mac "Mavis" Henderson of Colfax.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, an infant son, six brothers and five sisters. ~ Newton Daily News 31 October 2001