CORDES, Anna (Biedermann) 1861-1951

CORDES, BIEDERMANN, SCHEDTLER, GLASSEL, BRUNSON

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 12/19/2010 at 14:47:59

Anna (Biedermann) Cordes 1861-1951

Mitchell – Mrs. Anna Cordes, 89,. Longtime Mitchell County resident, died in a Morrison, Ill., hospital, where she had been following a fractured hip. Funeral probably will be Saturday. The body is at the Champion Funeral Home.

Nee, Anna Biedermann, she was born August 30, 1861, at Boscobel, Wis. There she spent her girlhood and was married to William Cordes in 1885.

The couple came to a farm south of Grafton in Worth county, where they farmed for many years, then farmed near Mitchell. With the exception of a three year period, the couple lived all their married life near Grafton and Mitchell. Her husband died in 1921 and since that time the deceased has resided at Mitchell with a son, Walter, and family, and at Fennimore, and Yorktown, Ill., with her son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. Reinhart Schedtler.

She leaves three sons, Len and Edwin, Arlington; Walter, Mitchell; her daughter; Mrs. Schedtler; one brother, Theodore Biedermann, Milwaukee, Wis.; one sister; Mrs. Charles Glassel, Leslie, Mich.; 13 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Preceding her also were two daughters; Mrs. Wilma Stokes and Mrs. Bertha Miesland five brothers; Henry; Will; Fred; Leonard and George Biedermann; and a sister Mrs. Lasetta Brunson.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday January 25, 1951

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Anna and her husband William Cordes are buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Mitchell, Mitchell County, Iowa
William J Cordes 1855-1932 (note his tombstone has death year at 1932, not 1921 in article)
Anna M Cordes 1861-1951