Alice Elizabeth Crandall, daughter of Alonzo W. and Hannah Bassett Crandall, was born in Unadilla Forks, N. Y., on December 19, 1847. She had only one brother, Louis H. Crandall, two years her junior, who passed away in August, 1927.
Her early girlhood up to the age of eighteen years was spent in the village of her birth, when the family moved to DeRuyter, N. Y., where the father was for many years engaged in the occupation of farming. She was educated in Whitestown Seminary and DeRuyter Institute and afterward taught in the country schools near DeRuyter.
When a small girl she was baptized into membership in the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Leonardsville, N. Y., which was only a few miles from her home. She was a loyal and devoted member of this church for many years. Later, after her home had been established in DeRuyter, she transferred her membership to the DeRuyter Seventh Day Baptist Church, and to that church she was very loyal up to the time of her passing on. Her church was very dear to her and as long as she lived in DeRuyter she was very active in all phases of its work and gave herself freely in its behalf. After the family moved to Geneva, N. Y., she identified herself with the First Baptist Church of that city and was very loyal to its interests as long as health and strength would permit.
On January 26, 1869, she was united in marriage to George F. Anna, and for forty-seven years they labored and loved together until he was called on in February, 1916. To this union were born four children: Ralph D., and Blanche L., both of whom died only two days apart and left a home childless and grief stricken. For several years there were no children, then a daughter, H. Bertha, and later a son, A. Neil, came, who survive the mother. Miss Bertha is a teacher in the Geneva City High School and has faithfully stood by her mother in these days of declining strength. The son lives in Illinois and is a teacher in the Northern Illinois State Teachers' College in DeKalb. There are two grandchildren: Alvord Nathan Annas and Lua Elizabeth Anna, whose lives have been a source of keenest love and pleasure to their grandmother.
The funeral was held at the home in Geneva, N. Y., on Friday afternoon, May 17, and in the DeRuyter Seventh Day Baptist church on the following day. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery, DeRuyter, N. Y., beside her late husband, George F. Annas. A host of relatives and friends join in sympathy with the immediate family in this time of their bereavement.
H. B. A.
