COUNTY RESIDENT FOR 56 YEARS PASSES AWAY Death of Mrs. Bessie Griffith, daughter of one of Woodbury county's earliest settlers occured Wednesday at her home at Anthon, Ia., at the age of 56 years. Funeral arrangements for the deceased will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Anthon Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. Mr. Wardie officiating. Interment will be made in Oto cemetery. Mrs. Griffith was born June 3, 1872, near Lucky Valley, Grant township, and spent her entire life in county. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Furgason, Mrs: Griffith was educated in the vicinity of Oto, and was graduated from the high school there. Later she taught for a time in the public schools. The deseased was married March 1, 1891, to James M. Griffith, and the couple resided on a near Anthon until three years farn, when they moved to town. Mrs. Griffith has been an invalid for 13 years, having suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1915. Since that time she has had several other stokes, the last of which proved fatal. Mrs. Griffith is survived by her father, E. S. Furgason, Oto. Ia., five children, Eddie Ray Griffith. Sioux City: Edna Fay Leetch, Kimball, S. D.: Percy Ellis Grifith and Nellie Fern Anthon, Ja., and James Mansel Griffitth, Battle Creek, Ia.; one sister, Mattie M. Hoskin, Spokane, Wash.: one brother, Omar E. Furgason, Cherokee, la., thirteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.