submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
July25, 1956 - Wednesday, pg 2 col 2
ANNA KATHRINNE (nee Zinser) ZINSER
Hold Funeral Rites For Mrs. Anna Zinser, Prophetstown Resident
Prophetstown: - Mrs. Anna Kathrinne Zinser, 81, died at 7 p.m. Saturday night at her home in Prophetstown of a heart attack. She had been in ill health the past four years.
She was the former Anna Kathrine Zinser, daughter of Jacob and Anna Bleiler Zinser, born Aug. 4, 1874, in Belvidere, Ill. The family moved to Monroe, Wis., and on Jan. 29, 1895, she was married to William P. Zinser at Hooppole, Ill. They farmed in the Hooppole vicinity until 1911 when they moved to a farm near Rock Falls, Ill. Mr. Zinser died there in 1927.
His wife and a son, Milton, continued the farm operations until 1940. They then retired to Prophetstown.
Surviving are two sons, Emergy G. Zinser, Elmhurst, Ill., and Milton at the Prophetstown home; one sister, Mrs. Marie Ringel, Paw Paw, Mich., and a grandson, Gordon Zinser.
Two brothers, Fred and William Zinser, both of Monroe, Wis., and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Hovan, Milwaukee, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Zinser attended the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church in Sterling, Ill., and was a member of King's Daughters at Rock Falls.
Services were held in Monroe, Wis., Tuesday afternoon in the Stuessy Funeral Home with Rev. E. J. Larson, pastor of the EUB Church at Sterling, officiating. Burail was in the Greenwood Cemetery at Monroe.
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