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Submitted: 7/27/10 • Approved: 4/26/21 • Last Updated: 4/29/21 • R67353-G67353-S3
Moody County Enterprise, Flandreau, SD September 25, 1941
PIONEER OF '77 IS LAID TO REST
Rites Held Tuesday for Mrs. Anna Buck Who Died Sunday at Aberdeen
EGAN - Mrs. Anna Buck, 82, widow of the late Charles J. Buck, died at 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning at St. Luke's hospital in Aberdeen, S.D., whither she was taken after being stricken ten days previously while visiting at the home of her son, Pearl W. Buck, in that city. She had gone there only three weeks ago from her late home in Flandreau.
As a resident of this community since 1877, when she came here almost as a bride, she has seen the development of this region and experienced all the hardships of pioneer days.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist church at Egan, conducted by Rev. H.P. Eberhart of Flandreau. Interment was made in Hillside cemetery, south of town, beside the body of her husband, who passed away April 7, 1930.
Anna E. Altland was born at White Pigeon, Mich., December 6, 1858. Her parents moved to Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa Iowa, soon after, and she grew to womanhood on a farm near that city. On May 10, 1877, she was joined in wedlock to Charles S. Buck at the home of her parents near Waterloo. The following spring they came to South Dakota to settle on a farm north of Egan at a time when there were no railroads in the county, and the lumber for the house which they there erected was hauled by team from Luverne, Minn., to supplement a sod house erected by them.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Buck, two of whom passed away in infancy, while a great bereavement was still in store for the parents when two adult daughters, Mrs. Edgar (Maude) Hornby and Mertie, passed away with nine months of each other.
Four sons who survive are W. Pearl, of Aberdeen; Louis J., Egan; Lee E., Sioux Falls, and Leslie of Flandreau, together with nine grandchildren.
Mrs. Buck was a faithful member of the Methodist church, served in the ladies' aide society as long as strength permitted, and was a member of the Ladies Cemetery Association. For the past few years Mrs. Buck had made her home with Mrs. A.G. Simmons in Flandreau.
Relatives from a distance who came to attend the last rites were Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Leimbach, Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Manson, Sioux City; Mrs. and Mrs. R.V. Manson, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Buck, Sioux Falls; Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Buck, Aberdeen; and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Buck, Madison.
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