This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#268665) Anna Ricketts <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=268665> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 3/3/2010 at 19:50:25 Surnames: RICKETTS,LOTT,SIMPSON,JOHNSON,KELLER,SEVERNS,DEGAN,FOSTER,DAIKER,KOBS,SCOGGINS ANNA RICKETTS Wapello – Anna Belle Ricketts, 60, Oakville, died Sunday morning at the Burlington Medical Center. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Wapello Cemetery. Visitation is from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. A memorial fund has been established at the funeral home. The daughter of Fred and Jessie Lott, she was born May 18, 1921, in Fort Madison. Her marriage to Kenneth Ricketts took place July 29, 1939, in Bowling Green, Mo. She was a member of the Wapello VFW Auxiliary for which she was past president and past district president. Survivors include her husband; two sons, William of Plano, Texas, and John of Newburgh, Ind.; two daughters, Anna Simpson of Wapello and Phyllis Johnson of New London; 13 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; her mother, Mrs. Jessie Keller of Dry Prong, La.; four brothers, William Lott of Crowley, Texas, Samuel Lott of Jerseyville, Ill., John Lott of Burlington, and Clyde Lott of Seattle, Wash.; and six sisters, Harriet Severns of Lynn Center, Ill, Mellie Degan of Oakville, Lilly Foster of Montesano, Wash., Pauline Daiker of Grafton, Ill., Carol Kobs of Burlington and Frances Scoggins of Livingston, Ill. She was preceded in death by her father and one sister. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of December 29, 1981