Alice Elvira (Burnham) Patterson (1850-1934)

BURNHAM, PATTERSON, EVANS, HALTERMAN, FORD, HARRISON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal April 7, 1934 (page 1)

PIONEER WOMAN DIED AT COLLINS

MRS. ALICE PATTERSON PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME THERE TODAY

Special to the Journal.
Collins, April 7--Mrs. Alice Patterson, 84, died at 9:00 a. m. today at her home in Collins after an illness of some time.

Definite arrangements for the funeral are yet undetermined pending word from relatives at a distance.

Mrs. Patterson, who had been a resident of this community for sixty years, was born Alice Burnham, daughter of Jacob and Emily Burnham, at Winona, Ill. Jan. 9, 1850.

When she was a child of four years she came out to Iowa with her parents, making a trip in a covered wagon and settled first at Mechanicsville, Iowa.

It was on December 12, 1867 that she was united in marriage to Charles Patterson of Flatwood, Pa., at Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

They came to Story county in 1874 and settled on a farm a mile northwest of where Collins now stands and this had been her home since.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, five of whom survive the parents. Mr. Patterson died about 33 years ago.

The surviving children are H. J. Patterson of Iola, Kansas, O. B. Patterson of Battle Lake, Minn., Milford J. Patterson of Chicago, Mrs. Luverne Evans of Collins and Eldon Patterson of Collins. She also raised a grandchild, O. M. Halterman, who had been in the home since the death of the mother, Mrs. Opal Halterman, at the time of the birth of the babe.

She leaves besides these five children, 9 grand children, 5 great grand children, a brother Frank Burnham of Perry and two sisters, Mrs. May Ford of Messa, Arizona and Mrs. Maude Harrison of Collins.

Mrs. Patterson had become a member of the Methodist Protestant church as a girl, but late after coming to Collins, had joined the Church of Christ and was always active in the affairs of that congregation.

She was a woman of exceptionally fine characteristics, charitable and considerate of all those about her and an ever present aid in time of trouble of other members of the family or neighbors and friends.

In her death the community is losing one of its outstanding and most beloved characters.