Ida Pearle (Cole) Britton (1886 - 1959)

Born 21 Jun 1886 in Wathena, Doniphan, Kansas, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Fred Glenn Britton — married 19 Sep 1911 in Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA

Descendants

Died 28 May 1959 at age 72 in Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, United States

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Biography

Ida Pearle Cole was born on 21 June 1886 at Wathena, Doniphan, Kansas.^[1]

My grandmother at age 18 went on the train to the University of Chicago where she went to school for eight weeks. She came back to Nebraska and then taught school. She had two big boys in the one room school house from the same family. She was afraid of them although they never did give her any trouble, and she knew that if they had, their father would have taken care of them. However, for many years she had nightmares about those two boys. My grandmother was very bright. She liked routine. When she was crocheting, she would sit down in the afternoon and crochet one square. My grandmother was a very talented lady. She was a wonderful cook. She was an avid reader and belonged to a book club for many years. She had an old treadle sewing machine on which she sewed my sister' Sue's and my clothes. She even made our coats. Grandma was very stylish. She liked to look attractive and knew how to pick out clothes that looked well on her. Grandma kept a large garden (I mean LARGE). One day we looked out the window and there was a mother skunk with seven babies in a row behind her walking through her garden. When they remodeled their bathroom, we loved having the huge room in which to go. We liked Grandma's bright red Teel to brush our teeth with which we didn't have a home. Grandma was active in the Eastern Star. She would refer to the other members as "the girls." She was an officer and as they marched in, she would say to herself, "I have to suck in my gut." She liked to travel and see the sites. She enjoyed going out west to visit her sons.

OBITUARY from the "Sanborn Pioneer," Sanborn, Iowa

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:00 at the Funeral Home for Mrs. Pearle Britton who passed away Thursday, May 28, at the Memorial hospital at Sheldon. Rev. R. E. Hodgkin, pastor of the Methodist church officiated...... Interment was in Roseland Cemetery. Ida Pearle Cole, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Cole, was born June 21, 1886 in Wathena, Kansas. When she was seven years of age, the family moved to Aurora, Nebraska where she grew to young womanhood. Later she moved with her parents to Sheldon, Iowa where she graduated from high school with the class of 1904. After further schooling at the University of Chicago, she taught in the elementary school system of Sheldon. In 1911, she was united in marriage to Fred G. Britton of Sanborn, Iowa. Their entire married life was spent on a farm adjoining Sanborn. Mr. Britton preceded his wife in death in 1951, at which time Mrs. Britton moved to her present home in Sanborn. Mrs. Britton took an active, and constructive part in the religious, civic, and social organizations of her home community. She was a loyal and devoted member of the Methodist Church, a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Twentieth Century club, and for many years has served on the library board

Sources

1. ↑ findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107361340

See also:

• BIR-DEA: Iowa Certificate of Death S0179849
• BIR-MAR: Lola G. Britton, sister of Fred Britton
• MAR: Newspaper clipping in poss. of Sally Shreeve
• OCC: School teacher
• DEA-BUR: Sanborn Pioneer (Newspaper) June 4, 1959
• BIR-MAR-DEA: Funeral Program
• 1900, 1920, and 1930 census records
• BIR-DEA: findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107361340/ida-pearle-britton