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Obituary

Mrs. Eva Anderson "the woman who loved work" is dead. The last thread has been woven into her life, that life which like her rugs had its gay and its somber colors for Eva Anderson said, "Life is just like a rug. It has its white threads and its black threads." Eva Anderson's life is closed and her loom has stopped weaving.
She died Thursday morning at 3 o'clock at the home of MRs. Peter Neuquist at 512 Spruce street where she lived, in the room more than half filled by the great heavy rug loom, where she had worked and toiled for years.
Mrs. Eva Anderson Seldom rested from her labors taking no holidays, working all the time, for she loved to work. She had toiled at the thumping loom for years, and now for the first time in many years it remains idle.
Mrs. Anderson was born i Korlstrops Parish, Smoland, Sweden, December 7, 1828 and was ninety two years old. Before her marriage she was Eva Johnson. She came to the United States in 1856. Eighteen weeks were consumed in the long voyage to America.
Coming to Des Moines county, she first found work at the home of John Murphy near Augusta. Later she worked for Henry Myers and three years after arriving in this country she married John Anderson. They first lived on a small farm in Des Moinrs county and shortly before the death of her husband they moved into Burlington. Mr. Anderson died on May 10, 1911.
Mrs. Anderson had some property but never ceased her activities on that account. In telling her life story to a Hawk-Eye reporter last December she showed her scorn of folks who quit working because they wanted time to play. After her husband's death she lived alone, but soon found a room in MRs. Neuquist's home, where she set up her rag rug weaving loom, a relic of pioneer days, and began to weave. Her work was painstaken and the rugs she made were readily sold. Crippled a number of years ago by a fall she did not move about a great deal, but remained in her room, working all day and ofter far into the night.
For forty-eight years she had been a member of the Swedish Methodist church of Burlington. For the past few years it had been the custom of the church to give a celebration each year in her honor. Mrs. Anderson had no children, but she leaves two nieces and five nephews. The funeral services will be held from the Burnett funeral parlors Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and at 2:30 o'clock fom the West Hill Methodist church conducted by Rev. J.E. Johnson. Friends are invited to attend the services.