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...pains in her stomach, but after Mrs. Robinson had brought her a glass of water she said: "Now you go back to bed." Fifteen minutes later, in the dark loneliness of the rambling house where she had lived so long and brought up her five sons, 84-year-old Ida Stover Eisenhower died of a heart attack...
...come a long way to the old house. Left an orphan at five, she went to live on a Virginia farm with her German grandparents. She left them at 15. Her grandparents did not believe in education for women; Ida Stover did. She got a job as a cook and when she was 21 followed her seven brothers west. Her brothers went their various ways. Ida Stover went to Lane University, a small school at Lecompton, Kans...
Dwight wanted to go to West Point. Over Dwight, Ida Eisenhower prayed. She was a member of the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect, and she did not believe in armies or war. But when his appointment came she said: "I chose my way," and she let Dwight choose...
Last week a procession of 21 cars, including Dwight Eisenhower's command car, followed Ida Eisenhower's grey casket through Abilene's quiet streets to the end of an elderly lady...
...Died. Ida Stover Eisenhower, 84, frail, unassuming mother of five sons, among them General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff; in Abilene, Kans. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...