Ida M. Klaus Dies.
Resident of Ponca City Since 1956.
Mrs. Ida M. Klaus, 90, mother of Mrs. Opal Williams, 205 South Ash, died Wednesday night in St. Joseph Medical Center following a long illness.
Born July 17, 1885 at Etna, Missouri, she received her education there and was married in August 1903, at Cedarvale, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Klaus ranched in the Foraker area in Oklahoma Territory.
Later he worked in the oilfields near Borger, Texas, where he died in 1945. Mrs. Klaus continued to make her home there until coming to Ponca City in 1956 to live with her daughter, Mrs. (Lee) Williams.
Other survivors include 5 sons, Robert, John and Waite, all of Borger, and Calvin and Joe of Amarillo, Texas, four daughters, Mrs. Williams, Ponca City, Mrs. W.L. Wilkinson, Kerrville, Texas, Mrs. Dave Ellis, Disney and Mrs. Kern Janow, Borger, one brother, Tom Horn, Boston, Mass.; 39 grandchildren, including Mrs. Dave Ramsey, 920 North Osage, 82 great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren.
The service will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of E.M. Trout and Sons Funeral Home. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery.
The family will be at the Williams residence, 205 N. Ash.
