Olive Green 1877-1941

GREEN, HICKS, OVERHOLT, NORTHRUP, PAULSEN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/20/2020 at 07:10:46

December 4, 1941 - The Anamosa Journal

ONSLOW--Funeral service for Miss Olive Hope Green, 64, who died Wednesday morning in the Benadom hospital, was held in the Hicks Funeral home Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. with Rev. Frank Schroeder in charge.

Casketbearers were Ernest Horton, Artie Ames, Roy Walters, John Kennedy, Arch Edwards and Edward Tjaden. Burial was made in the family lot at the Bethel cemetery.

Olive Hope Green was born April 11, 1877, oldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Green. Miss Green had never married and after the death of her parents she had remained at home and kept house for her brother, Howard.

Last April she suffered a broken hip and on her return from the hospital she went to the home of her sister, Mrs. W. A. Hicks. She had been ill from a heart ailment and had spent the last several weeks in the Benadom hospital.

Miss Green is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Hicks and Mrs. Alice Overholt; one brother, Howard Green; two nieces, Mrs. Ed Paulsen and Mrs. Dwight Northrup, and one nephew, Harold Overholt.