Anna Polak 1820 - 1920

POLAK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/19/2018 at 13:25:26

Sioux City Journal
6 March 1920

Death Calls Centenarian
Mrs. Anna Polak Dies After an Illness of But Four Days

When within four months of being 100 years old, Mrs. Anna Polak, said to be the oldest person in Sioux City, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. I.S. Smith, of 1620 West Palmer Street of old age yesterday morning.

Mrs. Polak was ill but four days. Up to the first day of her illness she had daily been busy in the Smith household assisting her granddaughter in her house-keeping duties.

She was born in Bohemia on July 26, 1820 and came to America fifty-one years ago. The family lived in New York State twenty years. Mrs. Polak’s husband died forty years ago. She lived in Scotland, South Dakota, twenty-seven years before coming to Sioux City three years ago.

Mrs. Polak is survived by sixteen grandchildren, fifty-eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter, living in Pukwana, South Dakota, who is 2 years old. The body will be buried at Scotland, South Dakota today.