This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZY.2ADI/347 Message Board Post: Lydia Ann Koenig Born: 29 DEC 1884 in Canada Died: 6 MAY 1981 in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California Buried: 11 MAY 1981 Riverside Cemetery in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado Obituary: Funeral services for former area resident Lydia Ann Barton Andersen, 96, will be held 2 p.m. Monday at Chaney-Walters Funeral Home. Rev. Dennis Sillaman will officiate. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery. Mrs. Andersen died Wednesday in Sunnyvale, Calif. She was a resident of Redwood, Calif., at the time of her death. She was born Dec. 29, 1884 in Canada to Pete and Madaline Heist Koenig. Mrs. Andersen came to the LeRoy community with her parents from Canada, where they homesteaded. On Sept. 1, 1903 she married Phillip Barton. After her marriage, the couple homesteaded in the LeRoy community where they farmed for several years. Mr. Barton died in 1938. In 1949, Mrs. Andersen moved to California where she lived until her death. She is survived by a daughter, Bertha Busig McConnell, Vancouver, Wash.; two sons, Charles E. Barton, Sterling, and Rutherford W. Barton, Redwood City, Calif.; four brothers, Ervin H. Koenig, Portland, Ore., Simon P. Koenig, Sterling, Percy Koeni! g of Austin, Texas and John Koenig, Greeley; a sister, Elsie Buss, Sterling; 11 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Chaney-Walters Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Tombstone in Riverside Cemetery in Sterling, Colorado: PHILLIP Nov. 27, 1879 Nov. 13, 1938 LYDIA A. ANDERSON DEC. 29, 1884 MAY 6, 1981 BARTON