Adah Larson
August 15, 2005

Adah Edna Simpson was born December 23, 1911, at Selma, Iowa to Carson and Chloie (Davis) Simpson. At a young age, she moved with her parents to Minnesota and attended school there. Her parents then moved to the Wesley area. Adah married Arthur T. Larson on September 2, 1934, at Wesley. They farmed in the Wesley area until 1944, when they moved to Renwick, Ia. In March of 1948, they moved to a farm in the Buffalo Center area, and in 1972, they retired, and moved into town. After Art's death in 1973, Adah lived in Buffalo Center and moved to an apartment in Wesley, Iowa in 1993.
Adah enjoyed gardening, cooking and canning, flowers, and sewing and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was a member of the Wesley Evangelical Free Church. Adah died on Monday, August 15, 2005, at the Titonka Care Center, where she had resided for one month. She was 93.
Survivors include her three sons, James Larson and wife Janice of Allen, Texas, Duane Larson and wife Audrey of Wesley, and Thomas Larson and wife Cheri of Titonka. Also surviving are her sisters, Luella Pearson of Wesley, Violet Gerber and husband Lloyd of Algona, Molly Donovan of Milford and Gloria Heimdahl and husband Dean of Clear Lake. Also surviving is sister-in-law Grace Simpson of Wesley. Adah was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Art in 1973, Tony Pearson in 1973, Kenneth Donovan in 2002 and brothers Stanley in 2003 and Louis in 1985, and Louis' wife Ruth in 2005. Also surviving are numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

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