Edwin John Richardson

Sibley Gazette, Iowa November 15, 1951

Edwin Richardson, Sibley Native Dies Saturday November 10- Services were held Wednesday November 14, edwin John Richardson, a Sibley native for 75 years, died in his home, Saturday, November 10, at 8:30 p.m.  Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 14, in the First Presbyterian church in Sibley, at 2p.m. Rev. G.J. Grobe officiated.  Richardson was born in Sibley in 1876. His father Robert Richardson was one of the pioneer businessman of Sibley.  After finishing his formal schooling in Sibley public schools, he entered the meat market business with his father.  After his father's death, he operated the business until the fire of 1943.  Since that time, Richardson worked in various meat markets in Sibley.  Richardson was first married to Frances Kreager in 1900.  The couple has one son, Robert, who now resides in Grundy Center.  In 1926, he married Minnie Benson.  They had one daughter, Delores, now Dolores Poss of Des Moines.

Survivors are his widow, Minnie Richardson, his son Robert, his daughter, Dolores Poss, one brother George Richardson of Santa Ana, California and one sister Nina Knapp of Garden Grove, California.