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Updated: 17 Jan 2012

Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
August 6, 1942, pg 4

Anna Wahl, Pioneer Of Edmond, Dies

Funeral for Church, Community Leader
To Be Friday

Rites for Mrs. Anna M. Wahl. 72 years old. 1920 Northwest Twenty-eighth street, who died Wednesday, will be at 10 a. m. Friday at Smith and Kernke funeral home. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery.

From Taliula ____ the Wahl family—Mrs. Wahl, her husband. I. G. Wahl. and their infant daughter Lydia — arrived At Edmond in October 1889.

Mrs. Wahl's husband became A mercantile dealer. and later joined the late Anton H. Classen in Oklahoma City to start a street railway company and a real estate business.

Mrs. Wahl, a landscape gardener used her influence to beautify with trees the boulevard in Edmond. and planning of avenues and streets in early-day Oklahoma City through suggestions to Classen. She was treasurer of the first Ladies' Aid society in Edmond. helped found some church activities still being carried on and helped obtain salaries for Edmond public school teachers in 1889.

She is survived by her husband: three daughters, Mrs. Walter H. Rhodes, Boise, Idaho: Mrs. Earl D. McBride, Northwest Tenth street and Evan-Hale road: Mrs. Wayne H. McCalister, 1103 Woodlawn avenue; brothers. Dr. Will G. Classen. Glendale. Calif.: Gerhardt W. Classen, Dallas; Jake Classen, Yoder, Colo. and John, Okalahoma City; sisters. Mrs. Arthur Weissenfluh, Lockwood, Mo. and Mrs. Ed Landwehr, city and Mrs. Charles Guenter, St. Louis.

Sources:  good faith fair use of sources stated above

Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator, May 2009. Information posted for educational purposes for viewers and researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

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