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Augustus S “Gus” Anderson

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Augustus S “Gus” Anderson

Birth
Buck Creek, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Death
9 Feb 1967 (aged 97)
Flora, Carroll County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Rockfield, Carroll County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Final rites for Gus S. Anderson, 97, of Flora were Sunday at the Leiter Funeral Home. Rev. Dale Hamilton officiated and interment was in the Rockfield Cemetery. He died Thursday evening at Fix Community Home in Flora where he had been a patient since 1965.

A member of the Flora Methodist Church and a 50-year member IOOF Lodge, he had retired several years ago after operating a grocery at Buck Creek for 28 years.

Born Oct. 25, 1869, in Buck Creek, he was the son of George and Carolyn Parret Anderson. His first marriage was to Jennie May, who died in 1920. In 1921 he married to Orabelle Donahue, who died in 1948 and in 1949 he was married to Elsie Martin, who died in 1957. Surviving are three nephews, Clarence Anderson of Lafayette, Russell Slater of Chillicothe, Mo., and William Slater of Ludlow, Mo.; and two nieces, Mrs. Pearl Lyon of Lafayette and Mrs. Nellie Walker of Delphi.

Publication: Flora Hoosier Democrat
Location: Flora, Indiana, United States Of America
Issue Date: February 16, 1967
Final rites for Gus S. Anderson, 97, of Flora were Sunday at the Leiter Funeral Home. Rev. Dale Hamilton officiated and interment was in the Rockfield Cemetery. He died Thursday evening at Fix Community Home in Flora where he had been a patient since 1965.

A member of the Flora Methodist Church and a 50-year member IOOF Lodge, he had retired several years ago after operating a grocery at Buck Creek for 28 years.

Born Oct. 25, 1869, in Buck Creek, he was the son of George and Carolyn Parret Anderson. His first marriage was to Jennie May, who died in 1920. In 1921 he married to Orabelle Donahue, who died in 1948 and in 1949 he was married to Elsie Martin, who died in 1957. Surviving are three nephews, Clarence Anderson of Lafayette, Russell Slater of Chillicothe, Mo., and William Slater of Ludlow, Mo.; and two nieces, Mrs. Pearl Lyon of Lafayette and Mrs. Nellie Walker of Delphi.

Publication: Flora Hoosier Democrat
Location: Flora, Indiana, United States Of America
Issue Date: February 16, 1967


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