OBIT: Anderson, Katherine Susan RATH
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Bonners Ferry Herald, Wednesday, December 10, 1986
Katherine Susan Rath Anderson, age 92, died Dec. 3, 1986, in the Community Hospital ECF wing, Bonners Ferry. (Idaho)
Interment was in the Porthill Cemetery following services held Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home chapel.
Katherine was born July 24, 1894, in Kamioki, Ill., to Mary Anna and Conrad Rath.She was the youngest of 10 children.She attended schools in Madison County, Ill., and was valedictorian of her class.
She attended Normal College at Normal, Ill.Katherine was awarded teaching certificate to teach grade school.She taught for one year then moved with her parents to Porthill in September, 1914.Katherine remained at home where she cared for her parents until June 30, 1926, when she married Gustaf Anderson.They resided at the family ranch until 1964
when they sold the ranch and moved to Bonners Ferry where they made their home on the Northside.
Katherine enjoyed extension work and was an active member of the "Get-together'Club" of Porthill.She was an ardent gardener and loved to fish, pick berries, and roam in the out-of-doors.
Katherine is survived by five neices, Mrs. Shirley Crandall, Mrs. Ival (Katherine) Selse, Mrs. Don (Marie) Jones; Mrs. Bill (Rita) Henley, and Mrs. Louise Snodgrass; two nephews, Conrad Chisholm and Norman Hawks; several grand neices and grand nephews.
Katherine was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son, Burton Anderson, five brothers, and four sisters.
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