“Mrs. Wilson Rites”
“Mrs. Anna Wilson, 78, life time resident of Pocahontas county, died at 9:45 a.m. March 16 at the Good Samaritan Home where she had been a resident since June, 1963. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. March 19 in Sacred Heart church with Fr. S. A. Grady officiating. Burial was in Calvary cemetery, Pocahontas. Arrangements were in charge of the Powers Funeral Home.
Formerly Anna Shimon, she was the oldest of 14 children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shimon, and was born November 21, 1885, on a farm near Pocahontas. She was employed as a clerk in the W. T. White Store in Pocahontas before her marriage to William L. Wilson on October 23, 1910, in Sacred Heart church, Pocahontas.
The couple resided in Pocahontas until the following spring when they moved on a farm where they engaged in farming until retiring and moving to Pocahontas in 1951. Mr. Wilson died in 1952.
Among her survivors are three sons, Tommie of Pocahontas, George of San Diego, Calif., and Donald of Rolfe; a daughter, Nellie, (Mrs. Glen Green) of Atlantic, Ia.; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Leonard Shimon of Marquette, Mich., and Leo of Pocahontas; and four sisters, Mrs. Josephine Posakony and Mrs. Dan O’Brien of Pocahontas, Mrs. Frances Carey and Miss Esther Shimon of Fort Dodge.”
Contributed by Ann Bowler, #46893124
“Mrs. Wilson Rites”
“Mrs. Anna Wilson, 78, life time resident of Pocahontas county, died at 9:45 a.m. March 16 at the Good Samaritan Home where she had been a resident since June, 1963. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. March 19 in Sacred Heart church with Fr. S. A. Grady officiating. Burial was in Calvary cemetery, Pocahontas. Arrangements were in charge of the Powers Funeral Home.
Formerly Anna Shimon, she was the oldest of 14 children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shimon, and was born November 21, 1885, on a farm near Pocahontas. She was employed as a clerk in the W. T. White Store in Pocahontas before her marriage to William L. Wilson on October 23, 1910, in Sacred Heart church, Pocahontas.
The couple resided in Pocahontas until the following spring when they moved on a farm where they engaged in farming until retiring and moving to Pocahontas in 1951. Mr. Wilson died in 1952.
Among her survivors are three sons, Tommie of Pocahontas, George of San Diego, Calif., and Donald of Rolfe; a daughter, Nellie, (Mrs. Glen Green) of Atlantic, Ia.; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Leonard Shimon of Marquette, Mich., and Leo of Pocahontas; and four sisters, Mrs. Josephine Posakony and Mrs. Dan O’Brien of Pocahontas, Mrs. Frances Carey and Miss Esther Shimon of Fort Dodge.”
Contributed by Ann Bowler, #46893124
Gravesite Details
Taken from the Calvary Cemetery Index located at the Pocahontas Library, 1882-1985.
Family Members
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Josephine Shimon Posakony
1887–1974
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William Francis Shimon
1888–1956
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Lena Shimon
1889–1907
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George John Shimon
1890–1948
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Albert Clement Shimon
1892–1953
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Christine Martha Shimon Kepler
1893–1951
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Thomas Michael Shimon Jr
1894–1951
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Leo John Shimon
1899–1970
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Esther E. Shimon
1901–1971
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Frances Helen Shimon Carey
1903–2001
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Grace Marion Shimon Schall
1904–1937
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Leonard Raymond Shimon
1906–1984
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Eleanor Helen Shimon O'Brien
1908–1999
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