Obituary from The Forest City Summit December 18, 1930

Mrs. Anna Rye died Friday afternoon at the home of her son H.N.rye, with whom she had been living the past months. She had been confined to her bed since last September suffering with cancer. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Lutheran Church in Fertile. Burial was made at Brush Point Cemetery.
Mrs. Anna Sanderson Rye was born in Hollandale,Wisconsin on May,1,1864 and came to Iowa with her parents Mr. And Mrs. L.O. Sanderson, in June 1876, settling in the village of Fertile. The family moved to the Sanderson homestead in Cerro Gordo County,where she was married to G.A. Rye on November 27,1881. Mr Rye passed away seven years ago.
For 37 years Mr. and Mrs. Rye made their home on a farm near the village of Fertile. In 1917 they moved into Fertile
and she maintained a home until last spring, going to Forest City to reside with her son.
Mrs. Rye is survived by 10 children; 27 grandchildren; 3 brothers and 5 sisters. The children are Mrs. Mabel Bolstad of International Falls Minn.; Lewis of Fertile Iowa; Melvin of Hanlontown Iowa; Mrs. Hild Rholl of Mason City Iowa; Gordon of Lambert, Montana; Harlan of Forest City Iowa; Mrs. Gladys O'Hare of Wadena, Iowa; Mrs. Florence Hobbs of Rudd, Iowa and Mrs.Eva Faulken of Minburn, Iowa.


Family sources have always given Anna's birth place as Hollandale. Actually she was born on the Sanderson farm in Moscow twsp. Iowa county Wisconsin. Hollandale is the closest town to this farm and probably the postal address in the 1800.

Anna's christening record in Perry Lutheran Church in Dane Co., Wisconsin, gives April 21,1864 as her birth date but her confirmation record list her birth date as May 1,1864

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