Posted on: Washington Co. Ia Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/WashingtonObits/10027 Surname: Overfelt, Williams, Annas ------------------------- >From IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN – June 13, 1921 Plunges To Cruel Death During Visit Mrs. Charles A. Overfelt, of Ainsworth, formerly a prominent Riverside woman, is dead as the result of a terrible fall at Cedar Falls. She opened the wrong door, at the home of Mr. And Mrs. H. C. Harmon, with whom she was visiting and plunged down stairs. Upward of 70 years, of age, she never recoverd consciousness says a message to her friends gone from her new home in Ainsworth, Iowa, to Waterloo, to the G. A. R.-W. R. C. convention and had stopped at the Harmon home to visit, en route home. Her husband was with her. Mrs. Overfelt was a leading member of the W. R. C. and Eastern stars. The body has been taken to Riverside, her old ____ (unreadable due to hole in newspaper page) where the funeral will be held Friday. >From IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN – June 17, 1921 RIVERSIDE NEWS Mrs. Chas. Overfelt. The death of Mrs. Chas. Overfelt came as quite a shock to her many friends here. She was visiting with her relatives at Waterloo when the accident happened which caused her death. The cellar door and the door leading upstairs were close together and intending to go upstairs she opened the door to the cellar. She fell to the bottom of the steps and never regained consciousness. She was about seventy odd years old, and of course her age was againsther recovery. She leaves to mourn her death her aged husband, a veteran of the civil war, one son Lester and Mrs. Annas of Ainsworth. Funeral services were held at the home at Aindworth where she had made her home the past seven years. Internment was made at the Riverside cemetery. >From IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN – June 18, 1921 Victim Of Tragedy Rests Laid to rest at Riverside, Mrs. Charles A. Overfelt, whose tragic death has been reported in the Press-Citizen, sleeps beside her kinfolk. She was 76. Her home was in Ainsworth, but she fell, it will be remembered, when she opened a wrong door, while visiting at the Harmon home, in Cedar Falls. She plunged down stairs, and died shortly afterwards. She formerly lived in Johnson county, and once owned the Hotel Grand building at Lone Tree. Mrs. Overfelt was a prominent W. R. C. and O. E. S. Surviving are her husband, Mrs. Annas, of Ainsworth, Iowa, where at whode home the funeral was held; and one son, C. A. Overfelt Jr., Of Bush Colo. (Note: the sons name was Charles Lester Overfelt and the town is Brush, LLO - 06/10/2001)