ROHNER, Annie Gertrude

1894 - 1980  (86 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	ROHNER, Annie Gertrude
  Birth	27 Feb 1894	Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States
  Gender	Female
  WAC	18 Sep 1912	SGEOR
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	2 Sep 1980	Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States
  Burial	6 Sep 1980	Pioneer Hill Cemetery, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States
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  Person ID	I21313	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	ANDERSEN, Thomas Milton ,   b. 18 Dec 1885, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United Statesd. 24 Oct 1971, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	18 Sep 1912	Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F11457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Tiny Gertie as you were always called because you only weighed 75 lbs and was 4 Ft. 10" in height was the daughter of Annie Louise (Eddards) and Jacob Rohner.She was born in Overton in an adobe house that was later part of Mac's Bait Shop until he built the new shop. Her mother passed away a few days after she was born.Her father being heartbroken over the death of his wife abandoned her leaving her in the care of the midwife who delivered her, Susanna Veater Johnson KWJ6-GC7, wife of Thomas Johnson, who raised her until she was sixteen. When she was eighteen she Thomas Milton were married in the St. George Temple on 18 Sept. 1912.. they traveled by horse and buggy and it took them five days to make the round trip.The Indians were drinking and whooping it up so they had to spend one night in the Fort on the way to St George.They celebrated 59 years of marriage before Thomas passed away.They never said any unkind words to each other unless grandpa ate black licorice. Annie could not stand the smell of it and she would tell him to go outside. She was a nurse in Overton and being they did not have a hospital there at the time she opened her house up to being a maternity ward. She had 125 babies born there which included two of her grandchildren. She was the midwife and delivered or helped deliver all of the babies.Then Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital opened a Branch Maternity Hospital and she worked there helping deliver another two hundred babies, some of them without the help of a doctor. One doctor with whom she worked, remarked several years later that she was one of the finest obstetrical nurses he had ever worked with. She had a great love for babies. When she wasn't caring for babies at the hospital or one of her grandchildren; she always managed to care for the lambs born to the sheep she and Thomas raised. She stayed very active after retiring at the green house that her son, Deloy had. She worked there as head transplanter and then would spend her afternoons quilting on quilts she made for her many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was the oldest Overton native living there before she passed away. She was a charter member of Moapa Valley Unit 38 of the America Legion Auxiliary and served as unit chaplain for many years.She has always been a faithful LDS member, being active in the Overton Ward and in later years the Overton Second Ward. She was a compassionate worker for many years, both commercially and on her own.She was also a member of daughter of the Utah Pioneers.