Shrake, Annie (Mrs. Daniel W.), 1859-1939

SHRAKE, PETER, RAW

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

From the Hawarden Independent, April 6, 1939:

DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Annie Shrake Died Here Tuesday Morning
Was 79 Years Old and Had Made Her Home With Her Daughter Here for the Past 13 Years

Mrs. Annie Shrake, a resident of Hawarden for the past 13 years, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Gearhart, just before 7 o’clock Tuesday morning. Mrs. Shrake submitted to an operation a year and a half ago and for the past year had not enjoyed good health. She began to fail rapidly about three months ago and grew weaker gradually until the end.

Funeral services will be held at the Barnard Funeral Home at 2 o’clock this afternoon with Rev. T. H. Harding of the Associated church in charge. Following the services here the remains will be taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Lillian Nalon, 3527 Jackson Street, Sioux City, and services will be held there at 2:30 Friday afternoon with Rev. Harding again in charge. Interment will be in Logan Park cemetery in Sioux City.

Annie Peter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peter, was born December 27, 1859, at Saint Rose, Wis., and so was past 79 years of age at the time of her death. She came to Iowa with her parents when a child, locating at Chapin. Later she moved to Dakota Territory near Chamberlain where she resided for many years. She was united in marriage with Daniel W. Shrake at Chamberlain May 29, 1882, and to this union were born three children, one of whom, Cleveland Shrake, preceded her in death. Her husband preceded her in death a number of years. In 1895 she moved to Sioux City and made her home there until the spring of 1926 when she came to Hawarden to make her home with her daughter.

She is survived by two children, Mrs. Ethel Gearhart, Hawarden, and Lester H. Shrake, Bakersfield, Calif.; three brothers, George Renshaw and Simon Peter, Sioux City, and Fred Peter, Waterbury, Neb.; three sisters, Mrs. Cora Huntington, Chapin, Iowa, Mrs. Lillian Nalon, Sioux City, and Mrs. Edith Berven, Bakersfield, Calif.; one grandson, David Gearhart, Hawarden, and one step-granddaughter, Mrs. Beverly Liljedahl, Bakersfield, Calif.

During her residence in Hawarden Mrs. Shrake made many friends with people with whom she came in contact. Her family was among the pioneers of Dakota Territory and during her life near Chamberlain she endured the hardships of the early settlers. When she resided in Sioux City she was a faithful attendant of the Christian Reformed church. Her passing will be mourned by many outside the family circle and sincere sympathy is extended to her children in their loss of a kind and loving mother.

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RESEARCH NOTES

Her death certificate adds her father’s birthplace, England; mother [no forename] Raw, born in England; died at 6:50 a.m. April 4, 1939; cause, “cancer of breasts metastacized throughout different organs over body.”

Her FindaGrave.com page gives her name as Mary Ann “Annie” Peter Shrake. It gives her birth date as 27 Dec. 1860 [although her headstone says 1859] and death date as 3 April 1939 in Sioux City; buried in Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City. Parents Thomas Hender Peter (1835-1917) and Margaret Raw Peter (1833-1896). Eight siblings listed. Husband Daniel Webster Shrake (1850-1925). Children Ethel M. Shrake Gearhart (1883-1982), Cleveland Robert Shrake (1885-1902), and Lester Shrake (1893-1967). There is a photo of her headstone: “Mother Annie Shrake 1859-1939.”