Marion Friends Cemetery ~ Anna E. Smith ~ part of the Marion County Cemeteries of Oregon
Smith, Anna E.
LAST: Smith FIRST: Anna MID: E.
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Meyer TITLE: Mrs.
BORN: 29 Nov 1890 DIED: 2 Jun 1977 BURIED: 4 Jun 1977
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  South Dakota
DEATH PLACE: Linn Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Linn County 1977) #77-09187
1st MARRIAGE – Elmer E. Gratreaks/Gratreaxs, Abt 1909
1910 NE CENSUS - Anne E. Gratreaxs, age 19, mother of 1, b. South Dakota, is enumerated as the daughter-in-law in the home of Nancy Gratreaxs, age 59, widow, mother of 8 children 5 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Illinois, along with her [Anna’s] husband of 1 year, Elmer E. Gratreaxs, age 24, occupation laborer, b Nebraska, and their son Ralph A., age 5 months, b. Nebraska.
2nd MARRIAGE – Marion Luther Smith
DISCREPANCY - 1910 census gives place of burth as South Dakota, obit as Nebraska.
OBITUARY: 
MARION—Anna E. Smith, 86, died Thursday in an Albany nursing home.
Born in Hardington, Neb., she came to Oregon in 1948.
Survivors include her widower, Marion L.; daughters, Ella Worley, Boring, and Evelyn Gaylin, Meridian, Idaho; sons, Ralph Gratreak, Beaverton, George E., Wasilla, Alaska, Lysle, Tacoma, Wash., Boyd E., Claude R., and Donald D., all of Boring; a brother, Victor Meyer, Aberdeen, S. Dak; a sister, Ruth Davis, Lemon, S. Dk.; 30 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Marion Friends Church. Interment will be in Marion Cemetery, under direction of Weddle mortuary, Stayton. 
Oregon Statesman 4 Jun 1977 7B:6
INSCRIPTION: 
Our Mom
Anna E. Gratreaks
Smith
Nov. 29, 1890 - June 2, 1977
SOURCES: 
ODI
Saucy
1910 NE CENSUS (Cedar Co., Hartington Ward 1, ED 39, sheet 5B
OS 4 Jun 1977 7B:6
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