Bessie E. (Annett) ROOT

ANNETT, ROOT, CARPENTER, HANSEN, HAINES, KREITLOW, FOSTER, CHEEVER, PRESCHER, JACKSON, PERRY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/28/2006 at 14:18:03

Bessie E. Root, the daughter of Jerome and Jeanette Carpenter Annett was born Feb. 18, 1894, near New Hampton. The family later moved to Dows and she and George Root were married at Clarion Sept. 6, 1910. They lived for a short time in Wisconsin and then farmed near Bradford before moving to Dows. Survivors include seven daughters, Rosella Hansen of Williams, Helen Haines of Ft. Dodge, Rhoda Kreitlow and Elsie Foster of Dows, Dorothy Cheever of Ames, Mable Prescher of Ellendale, Minn., and Lucille Jackson of Marshalltown; 27 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mayme Perry of Sparta, Wis. Mrs. Root was preceded in death by her husband, three sister, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

ca November 1978, source unknown