Addie May Anthony Garnett 1862-1939

ANTHONY, GARNETT

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 12/31/2006 at 08:53:53

Ruthven Free Press; Ruthven, Palo Alto, IA; Wednesday, March 1, 1939

MRS. F.H. GARNETT

Addie May Anthony, daughter of Edmund and Harriet Wilkins Anthony, was born in Addison county, Vermont, March 19, 1862 and passed away at her home northeast of Ruthven, Iowa, February 21, 1939, after an illness of about 18 months. She had been in failing health for a number of years and during the last few weeks preceding her death she was cared for by her sister, Mrs. Emma Garnett of Tiffin.

Her parents moved from Vermont to Tiffin, Iowa, in 1868, when the deceased was 6 years of age. Here she grew to womanhood and then was employed as a dressmaker in Iowa City. Later she was a practical nurse.

On October 28, 1891, she was united in marriage to Frank H. Garnett at Oxford, Iowa, and to this union was born two sons, Elmer Lee, who died at the age of 11 years in 1904, and is buried at Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Raymond Frank, who has been farming with his parents northeast of Ruthven.

Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Garnett lived for about nine years on a farm near Tiffin and in 1901 they moved to Rock Rapids. In the spring of 1905 the family moved to Ellsworth, Minnesota, where they lived for seven years and then moved to Hart, Michigan, where they remained three years and then moved back to Tiffin. In October, 1916, they moved onto a farm on the northwest side of Lost Island lake, near Ruthven, and in 1921 they moved onto a farm on the northeast side of Lost Island lake where they have since resided.

The deceased united with the Methodist church at Tiffin when she was about 17 years of age, and retained her membership at this church until her death.

Mrs. Garnett was a member of a family of 13 children, only one of whom survives.

She is survived by her husband and son, and one sister, Mrs. Emma Garnett, of Tiffin, Iowa.

Funeral services were held at the Lightle funeral home in Ruthven on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Belden Weikel, pastor of the local Methodist church, officiating. Rev. Weikel used Psalms 27:4 and St. John 14:2 as the text for the funeral sermon.

Arthur Simonson, Hendrick Rierson, Mrs. Emma Grange, and Mrs. O.F. Spies sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" "Rock of Ages" and "Abide with Me."

The pallbearers were Albert Hermansen, Peter Hermansen, C. Jungman, Will Hallowell, James Mason and Ross Hallowell.

Burial took place in Crown Hill cemetery.