The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
Wednesday
May 29, 1957
Page 10
Column 3Mrs. Anna Mason Dies in Iowa City
Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Anna Mason, Twenty-third and McKinley avenue, at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday in the University hospitals in Iowa City.
The body is being returned to the Schmidt Memorial Home. The obituary and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
Thursday
May 30, 1957
Page 11
Column 3Funeral Service For Mrs. Mason Will be Saturday
Funeral service for Mrs. Anna Mason, 2400 Cleveland avenue, will be held at the Schmidt Memorial Home Saturday, June 1, at 2:00 p.m., with Lt. Eugene Adney of the Salvation Army officiating. Mrs. Mason died Tuesday in the University hospitals in Iowa City.
Anna Mason was born April 12, 1884, at Hannibal, Missouri, the daughter of Noah and Hester Watt Lobb. On September 23, 1904, she was married to Robert A. Mason in Warsaw, Ill. To this union fourteen children were born.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Edna Henderson, Ottumwa; Mrs. Ruth Renner, Alexandria, Mo.; Mrs. Hazel Skow, New Boston; and Mrs. Clara Sears, Keokuk. Seven sons, Robert, Earl, Ralph and Herman, all of Keokuk; Carl and Barry of Mediapolis and Charles of Alexandria. One sister, Mrs. Gertrude Nylin of Illinois City, Ill., and one brother, Milton Lobb of Nebraska, 36 grandchildren, one great grandchild and many other relatives.
She was preceded in death by three sons, Russell, Walter and Milton Mason.
Mrs. Mason had been in failing health for the past 18 months and had been a patient in the University hospitals for the past three weeks. She had been a resident of Keokuk for 42 years, coming to this city from Ft. Madison.
A member of the Salvation Army, Mrs. Mason had rung the bell for Christmas donations in front of the J. C. Penney store for many years.
Burial will be in the Oakland cemetery.
