Gross, Anderson M. 1869-1927

GROSS, ROYCE, RUHL, UNDERWOOD, HORNBECK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/18/2010 at 09:21:06

ANDERSON M. GROSS PASSES

Burial services were held at Malcom Sunday morning for Anderson M. Gross, 58, a native of Poweshiek county, who died at his farm home near Arispe, Iowa, on September 8, from the ravages of cancer, which had destroyed his lungs.

Funeral services were held at the Arispe Methodist Church Saturday afternoon, and the body was brought to rest beside the bodies of his three infant sons in the Malcom cemetery. The Reverend J.C. Lincoln, of Grinnell, pronounced a brief service at the Snyder chapel in Grinnell and at the grave-side.

Deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Gross and was born near Malcom on Feb. 23, 1869. His parents preceded him in death.

Educated in the schools of Poweshiek county, he later became a telegraph operator and entered the service of the Chicago, Great Western railroad at Waterloo. Subsequently he was transferred to Oelwein and Arispe.

At the latter place he was married to Ada Florence Royce, member of an old and prominent family in Poweshiek county.

Retiring from railroad work in 1904, the family removed to a farm near Arispe which had been purchased. In succeeding years they lived at Afton, Iowa, and Creston, Iowa, eventually returning to the homestead in the vicinity of Arispe.

Mr. Gross was active in democratic politics in Union county and was a member of the school board at Arispe for several years. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

He is survived by his widow and six children, Mrs. L.W. Ruhl, of Belle Plaine; Mrs. R.W. Underwood of Des Moines; Harold R., of Des Moines; Lester O., Elton L., and Sidney L. of Arispe.

He is also survived by six grandchildren; one sister, Delzia Gross, of Beatrice, Nebr., and a half brother, Harrison Hornbeck, of Malcom. A brother, A.P. Gross, of Menlo, Kans., preceded him in death a month ago.