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THE OBITUARY OFAnna Phelps |
Anna Phelps
Mrs. Anna Phelps, 85, died Wednesday at the Florence Home for Aged in Omaha. Mrs. Phelps was born at Ottumwa February 22, 1849. She lived in Council Bluffs most of her life. She was the widow of George T. Phelps.
Surviving are a son, George B. Phelps of Kansas City, MO, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah H. Wheeler of Chicago.
Funeral services will be held friday at 2 p.m. at the Cutler Chapel. Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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Anna (Baldwin) Phelps
Funeral services for Anna Phelps, 85, one of the founders of the Jennie Edmundson Hospital were held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Cutler Chapel. Mrs. Phelps died Wednesday at the Florence Home for the Aged in Omaha. She was the daughter of John T. Baldwin, who with his family came to Kanesville in 1853, the same year that the name of the community was changed to that of Council Bluffs. She remembered experiences of pioneering which terrified her mother. Among these were the frequent visits of Indians to the Baldwin home, a log and frame dwelling on South First Street. The Indians would press their faces against the windows.
Mrs. Phelps attended a private school taught by James B. Rue in whose memory one of the present city schools is named. Her father was one of the builders of early Council Bluffs.
She married in 1869 George T. Phelps. Mr. Phelps became manager of the new Ogden Hotel when it was established in 1876, then known as the finest hostelry between Chicago and San Francisco. He later managed the Grand Hotel.
Mrs. Phelps was closely identified with philanthropic enterprises in Council Bluffs. The hospital which she helped establish in 1884 was known for twenty years as the Women's Christian Association Hospital. The hospital became known as the Jennie Edmundson Hospital.