Died 14 April 1924; Buried in Lambert Cemetery, Page Nebraska

Anna Iola Bergstrom (Summers)

The following obituary will be of interest to Enterprise readers' as it relates to former Blair people. The subject of this sketch is the “grand daughter of our townspeople” Mr. and Mrs. James Cruickshank, and her mother, who was Belle Cruickshank , has many old-time friends here who will sympathize with her in the loss of an only daughter who had grown to womanhood and had a home and children of her own.

The Enterprise joins Blair friends in extending sympathy to the relatives.

Anna Iola Summers, daughter of Miles A. and Isabel Summers, was born October 15, 1898, at Page, Nebraska; and died April 14, 1924, at O’Neill, Nebraska, age 25 years, 5 months and 29 days.

She was united in marriage to Sherman Bergstrom at Papillion, Nebraska, July 11, 1917. To this union three children were born, Thelma, age six, Kenneth, age four and Ivan, age two.

She reached girlhood and attended school in the Spring Valley neighborhood, eight miles northeast of Page, Nebraska.

After marrying they farmed in the same community all her life, except a short time she spent in Wyoming. Her disposition was always cheerful and sunny; she was a friend to every one, always ready to help in any time of need, a loving wife and kind and faithful mother to her three children.

She leaves to mourn her departure a husband, three children, father and mother, six brothers, all of Page, Nebraska, except W. A. Summers of Wheeler, Nebraska, and Frank Summers at O’Neill, Nebraska, and H. M. Summers at Elgin, Nebraska.

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at ten o’clock from, the Methodist Church, Rev. J. A. Hutchins conducting the service.

Burial was in Lambert Cemetery, six miles northeast of Page, Nebraska.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~