Elsensohn, Letha Ethel Pool 1894 - 1968

SALTERS, ROSS, FARRINGTON, HULL, CLARY, HENDRICKS, PLOWMAN, MERCER

Posted By: Sandra Burtness (email)
Date: 12/8/2017 at 11:27:50

Mrs. Letha Elsensohn, 73, of 346 Farrington in Agency, Iowa died at St. Joseph Hospital Thursday Jan. 26, 1968. She had been ill with leukemia a year. The daughter of Samuel and Ellen Salters Pool, she was born in Van Buren County Sept. 19, 1894. She had been a resident of Van Buren and Wapello counties all her life and was a member of the Methodist Church of Agency and Pythias Sisters Temple 104 at Douds. Her marriage to William Elsensohn took place at Eldon April 19, 1911. He survives. Also surviving are five daughter, Edna Ross of Portage, Indiana, Florence Hull of Phoenix, Arizona, Mrs. Veva Clary, Eileen Hendricks, and Martha Farrington, all of Ottumwa; two sons, Grover of Agency and Fred of San Jacinto, California; six granddaughters; four grandsons; one great granddaughter; and two sisters, Jessie Plowman of Douds and Mabel Mercer of Helena, Montana. She was preceded in death by four sisters, including her twin Leah, and two brothers. Funeral services will be at Reece Funeral Home Saturday at 3 pm with the Rev. William Rieckhoff of Agency Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery with Clyo Ross, Don Hendricks, Al and William Farrington, and Ray and Mike Clary as pallbearers. The Ottumwa Courier