ERDMANN, Andrena (nee Anderson) 1872-1954

ERDMANN, ANDERSON, NELSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 7/14/2009 at 12:05:13

Mrs. E. L. Erdmann

OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral rites will be Wednesday, at 2:00 p.m. at the Osage Lutheran Church for Mrs. E. L. Erdmann, 81, with burial in the Osage Cemetery; died Sunday morning, at her home, East Main Street, having been ill for some time with cardiac condition and complication.

Born Andrena Anderson on October 13, 1872, to Mons and Martha (Nelson) Anderson, near Owatonna, Minn.; married to E. L. Erdmann Oct. 3, 1891, and couple farmed near Owatonna, Minn., until retiring to Osage in 1927, where in 1945 he died.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Mabel Radel, Medford, Minn., Mrs. Andrew Anhorn, Miss Marion, Miss Edna, and Miss Ruby Erdmann, all of Osage; four sons, Arthur, Leonard and Harold, all of Osage, and Lawrence of Breckenridge, Colo,; 16 grandchildren, and 17 great- grandchildren; deceased include her husband, an infant son, two brothers and four sisters.

[Waterloo Daily Courier - Monday, July 05, 1954]