Clara Knutson Anderson 1888-1936

KNUTSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/11/2008 at 01:11:03

The Ute Independent
Ute, Monona County, Iowa
23 October 1936

Obituary of Mrs. Clara Anderson
Clara Knutson Anderson was born October 7, 1888, at Soldier, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and grew to women-hood in this vicinity. In the year 1916 she was united in holy wedlock to Albert Anderson, who preceded her in death. To this union 7 children were born.
She was bedfast for a week with pneumonia, and passed away at her home southeast of Soldier Wednesday, October 7, 1936, at 5 p.m. aged exactly 48 years.
She leaves to mourn her departure six sons, Leland, Quinton, Howard, Warren, Bernard and Albert Jean; one daughter, Zelda, and her aged mother, Mrs. Mary Knutson: three sisters, Mrs. Emil Sweum, Sioux City, Iowa, Mrs. Sadie Rayburn of Needles, California, and Mrs. C.O. Anderson of Soldier, Iowa; one brother, C.E. Knutson of Ute, Iowa and many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at the south church Saturday afternoon. An exceptionally large number of friends and neighbors attended. Rev. Tweet conducted the services and the remains were laid to rest in the Soldier Valley cemetery—Soldier Sentinel