Mathilda Anderson Eisentraut 1884 - 1975

ANDERSON, CHRISTENSON, EISENTRAUT

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Date: 5/30/2022 at 17:15:01

Sioux City Journal
21 May 1975

KINGSLEY, Iowa - Mrs. C. 0. Eisentraut, 90, of Kingsley, died May 19 at a Kingsley nursing home.

Services will be at 10 a.m. May 22 in the McCulloch Funeral Home at Moville. The Rev. Dale W. Church of Hornick will officiate. Burial will be in Banner Township Cemetery at Lawton.

Mrs. Eisentraut, the former Mathilda Anderson, was born Oct. 9, 1884 in Ida County. She was married to Edward A. Christenson on Dec. 24, 1902. They farmed in the Arthur area, and moved to Woodbury County in 1908. He died Jan. 12, 1936.

She moved to Moville in 1940 and was married to Mr. Eisentraut in January of 1942. He died in December 1951.

She had lived in a Kingsley nursing home for the last four and a half years.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church, American Legion Auxiliary and Women's Christian Temperance Union, all at Moville.

Survivors include a son, Richard Christenson of rural Kingsley; a daughter, Mrs. Harold (Fern) Livermore of Sioux City; a sister, Mrs. Charles (Anna) Croxell of Correctionville; two brothers, Edward Anderson of Dawson Creek, B.C. and John Anderson of Parma, Ohio; six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.