Anna O'Donnell (1886-1919)

ODONNELL, NELSON

Posted By: Sandra Huhn Mayrose (email)
Date: 6/20/2005 at 22:24:22

ANNA NELSON O'DONNELL

Anna Dorothea Nelson was born June 29, 1886 at McCallsburg, Iowa. She was united in marriage to Luke O'Donnell, February 28, 1905, and they moved onto the farm northeast of Colo, Iowa, which has been their home ever since. Six children were born to them.

Mrs. O'Donnell was a loyal, loving wife and mother and a good neighbor and friend. She was taken with the Spanish influenza about two weeks ago. Everything that loving hearts and skilled hands could do was done, but she passed away early Wednesday morning, January 22, 1919, age 37 years, 6 months and 24 days. She leaves to mourn their loss, her husband, Luke, four daughters, Alice, Irene, Pauline and Anna and one son, Francis. An infant son passed away four hours before the mother. Her father, Mr. Ole Nelson of Buffalo Center, Iowa; five sisters, Christine of Washington, Tina of Montana, Anna (a Red Cross nurse) of Marshalltown, Iowa; Mary Nelson of Marshalltown; Carrie (who lives with her father at Buffalo Center), two brothers, Jens of Buffalo Center and Nels with the American E. F. in France, besides other relatives and friends. On account of the state law prohibiting public funerals brief services were held at the grave and the beloved form was tenderly laid to rest in the St. James Cemetery at Colo at 10 a.m. Sincere sympathy and love to the bereaved ones.
(Nevada Evening Journal---Feb. 1919)