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- [Fanning, Anna May Sinison]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday September 25, 1975 p. 6
Graveside Services At Lexington for Anna Fanning, 99
Graveside services for Mrs. Addison (Anna May) Fanning, 99, of New Hartford, Iowa, former Conway resident, were held at Lexington Cemetery near Bedford, September 20, conducted by Rev. Dwayne Madsen. Services were held September 19 at Kaiser-Corson Funeral Home in New Hartford, with Rev. Tony Mahalovich officiating. Mrs. Fanning died September 17 at the Allison Manor Nursing Home in Allison, Iowa, where she had been a resident for the past two years.
Anna Sinison was born on September 14, 1876, in Tarkio, Mo., the daughter of Richard and Sally (Alay) Sinison. She attended country school in Missouri and then on February 1, 1899, she was married in Maryville, Mo., to Addison Fanning.
They farmed near Maryville until the early 1900's when they moved to Iowa, where they farmed until Addison's death in 1958.
In 1965 Anna went to Bettendorf to live with her daughter and in 1970 came to live with her other daughter in New Hartford where she remained until going to the nursing home two years ago.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son, John, a daughter, Bessie, three brothers, Henry, John and Charles, and by one great grandson.
She is survived by two sons: Loren [Richard] Fanning of Yuma, Ariz., and Lenna [Lennie Charles] Fanning of Lodi, Calif., and by two daughters, Mrs. J. R. (Lillie) Enlow of Bettendorf, Iowa, and Mrs. Glen (Flossie) Fickess of New Hartford, Iowa; 12 grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren; one great great granddaughter.
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