APPLETON, Maude 1884-1953

APPLETON, ROBERTS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/21/2010 at 12:42:14

Rites Friday at Osage for Former Nurse

OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral services for Mrs. Maude Appleton, 69, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Champion Funeral Home, with burial in Osage Cemetery.

She died Wednesday at the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital following a long illness.

Survivors include her brother, Claire Roberts, of Little Cedar, and two sisters, Mrs. Estel Houghton, of Steele, N.D., and Mrs. Eleanor Frazer of Little Cedar.

Mrs. Appleton was born near Little Cedar to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Roberts on January 21, 1884, and was married to Frank Appleton on June 26, 1908. Her husband died in 1914.

Following the death of her husband she took nurse's training at Minneapolis, She returned to Mitchell County where she since lived, most of the time at Osage. Since her health failed she lived with her brother, Claire, at Little Cedar.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette, Friday, June 26, 1953]