Obit: Cutts, Lydia #2 (1847 - 1945)

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Surnames: Cutts, Choate

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 08/30/1945

Cutts, Lydia #2 (30 Sept. 1847 - 27 Aug. 1945)

Mrs. Lydia Cutts of Unity died Monday morning at 3:00 o’clock at the home of her daughter in law, Mrs. Lena Cutts, at the age of 97 years. The body will lie in state at the Lulloff Funeral Home in Colby, Wisconsin, until Saturday afternoon when funeral services will be held at the Unity Methodist church at 2:00 P.M.

Mrs. Cutts was born on Sept. 30, 1847, at Oxford, Conn., and was married there on August 12, 1867, to Wilbur F. Cutts. For the past 70 years, she made her home in Unity and Ogema. She was a member of the Methodist church and its Ladies Aid Society.

Surviving are a son, Howard, of Portland, Ore., a daughter, Mrs. Ward Choate of Los Angeles, 21 grand children, 24 great grand children and five great, great grand children. Three sons, George, Arthur and Royal preceded her in death.