Winnie May Allen Anderson (1895-1984)

Winnie May Allen Anderson

Birth

23 Aug 1895

Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA

Death

25 Feb 1984 (aged 88)

Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Burial

Montecito Memorial Park

Colton, San Bernardino County, California, USA Add to Map

Plot

(Northeast corner starts row 1), Magnolia lot, north end, sixteenth row, first space down from the corner of the Cypress and Magnolia lots(westside)

Memorial ID

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Winnie May (aka Mae) Allen was born 23 Aug 1895 in Mesa, Arizona to Charles Hopkins Allen and Annie Eliza Jones.

While living in Mesa, Winnie and her sister Hazel trained for a year in Phoenix to be nurses at the St Joseph Hospital. Later she went to Logan, Utah and attended the B.Y. College.

She married James Ira Anderson on 4 Oct 1916 in Salt Lake City, Utah and was the mother of three children:
Elmo James, b. 3 Apr 1918
Iona, b. 17 May 1919
Erma, b. 30 Oct 1923

For a review of where they lived over the years, see the memorial of her husband.

Winnie and her husband enjoyed a trip to Hawaii during the Summer of 1957. In 1978 she attended an Anderson family reunion in Chino, Calif and had a reunion with her own family in the 1980s. They also made a trip to Europe.

Winnie was a very devoted and enthusiastic genealogist and spent most of her life doing family research on her parents ancestry lines. About 1933 she returned to Tennessee, the home of her mother, Annie Elize Jones, to find more information on those ancestors and saw first hand the poverty and poor living conditions her mother grew up in. She also hired a professional genealogist, Prentiss Price who did further work for her in Tennessee. In her later years she worked with Rich Ware, her grandson, to further the research on her Tennessee lines.

Unable to care for herself alone, Winnie entered the Royal Oaks Convalescent Hospital at 250 No. Verdugo Rd in Glendale, California where she spent her remaining few years. She passed away here of acute cardiac arrest, hypertension heart disease, arthritis and hypothyroidism. (California Death Certificate).

Name Sources:
1. Winnie May Allen on the California Death Index.
2. Winnie Mae AKA May Allen Anderson on the California Death Certificate.
3. Winnie Anderson on the Social Security Death Index.
4. Winnie May Allen Anderson on her autobiography.
5. Winnie May Anderson on Funeral eulogy by Glen Harris.
6. Winnie May Allen on her patriarchal blessing, 9 May 1900.
7. Winnie May Allen on her "Personal Record" history written by her and Hazel.

Bio written by Rich Ware.