Emma Anderson 1857 - 1937

GIESE, STOLTENBERG, ANDERSON

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Mapleton Press
28 October 1937

Mrs. Anderson Buried Saturday

Funeral Services Held At Home With Burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Anderson, 80-year-old pioneer resident of Mapleton who passed away Thursday of last week following a brief illness, were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in her home on North Fourth Street with Rev. G.W. Dunn, pastor of First Methodist Church in Sioux City, officiating. He was assisted by Rev. A.F. Schuldt, pastor of the Methodist Church in Mapleton.

Interment was in Mt. Hope Cemetery under the direction of the Olerich Funeral Home.

Mrs. Arthur Neubaum, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Dale Vanderbur, sang “But The Lord Is Mindful of His Own” by Mendelssohn, Mrs. Neubaum and Mrs. Schuldt sang “Good Night and Good Morning.”

Theodore H. Schoenjahn, N.W. Pike, John L. Ellis of Nemaha, Marinus Johnson, William Uhl, Jr. and Milton Jackson served as pallbearers.

Emma Stoltenberg, daughter of Joseph and Celia Giese Stoltenberg, was born August 8, 1857 at Camanche, Iowa. At the age of 2 her mother was killed in a tornado, leaving a younger brother and herself. The father moved to Davenport with his children where he engaged in the mercantile business. He later married and they continued to make Davenport their home until the family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1871.

Emma, becoming homesick, came back to Camanche where she lived with her grandparents. At the age of 19 she was married to Charles Anderson. They located in Bryant, Iowa, where they conducted a general store. In 1865 their place of business and home was destroyed by fire. The next spring they came to Mapleton, where the home has been continuously for the last 51 years. Mr. Anderson preceded her in death January 25, 1909.

Quiet and unassuming, Mrs. Anderson was helpful and sympathetic at all times, many outside the immediate family going to her for counsel and advice and accepting her as a mother. Their responsibility she faithfully, willing and modestly accepted.

She is survived by three children, Mrs. Clara Sweet of Sioux City, Miss Cora Anderson and Waldo Anderson of Mapleton. She is also survived by two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two sisters, Clara and Ella Stoltenberg of Palo Alto, California and one brother, Karl of Seattle Washington. Two children, Hattie and Lorena and her brother, Louis preceded her in death.

Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral services were: Mrs. Paul Wilholte and son, Lyle of Wall Lake, William Hanneman and daughter, Lucretta of Watertown, S.D., Mr. and Mrs. George Kischer of Albert City, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rohweller of Newell, Mrs. Karl Staub of Lake View, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Holt, Walter Bahrentus, S.M. Holt and Henry Holt of Wall Lake, Henry Specht of Clinton, Mrs. Frank Kreim of Dixon, Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schmidt of Manning, Mrs. Wanda Schamedake and son of Schleswig, Mrs. Ben Specht of Clinton, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arp and son, Miss Mabel Arp and Mrs. Frank of Manning, Reginald Fuller of Onawa, Mrs. Edward Carlsen of Chicago, Illinois, Miss Frances Carlsen of Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Madison of Soldier, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Madison of Ute, Mrs. W.E. Osborn, Mrs. Wayne Blackburn and Miss Annette Green of Pierson and John L. Ellis of Nemaha.