This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jh.2ADE/1489 Message Board Post: Source uncredited, but contains a handwritten note "d. 30 May 1972". Transcribed from a photocopy of the original. Mrs. Gertrude Colson, Sterling, Succumbs OREGON - Mrs. Gertrude M. Colson, 81, 1106 1st. Ave., Sterling, Died Monday evening at Community General Hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Farrell Funeral Home, Oregon, with the Rev. William Nicoll of the Oregon United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Oregon. There will be no visitation. Mrs. Colson was born Feb. 16, 1891 at Chicago, the daughter of John and Ella Orsted Thorsheim. She was married to Robert Colson, Jan. 23, 1915 in Chicago. She was a lifelong are resident of Pine Creek Township, Ogle County. Survivors include four sons; James, Sterling; Russell, Rockford; Lawrence, Park Forest; and Paul, Sterling; and 13 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, one brother and one sister.