The Sterling Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

December 22, 1948 - Wednesday, pg. 2, col. 2

 

 

MINNIE D. (Olsson) ALDRICH

 

Mrs. Minnie Aldrich Funeral Rites Friday

 

Tampico - Mrs. Minnie Dorothea Aldrich died suddenly Tuesday at 11 a.m. as she was entering her daughter's car in front of Emma Lucille's beauty shop, which she had just left.  Her body was taken to the Parent mortuary where Coroner John T. Meyer is to hold an inquest late Wednesday afternoon.

 

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Tampico Methodist church, the Rev. Hollis Wharton officiating.  The committal will be in the Tampico Memorial cemetery.

 

Mrs. Aldrich was born Minnie D. Olsson in Tampico, daughter of Oliver and Chasta Olsson, and she was reared and educated in Tampico.  On Jan. 4, 1898 she was married to Arthur Aldrich, who died July 24, 1947. She is survived by two daughters, Gwendolyn Aldrich and Mrs. Elwood Rakow (Frances) and one brother, Edward T. Olsson.