Anna Clara Ulrich was born June 17, 1874 in Serena township, LaSalle County, Illinois, the eldest of eight children born to Joseph Gabriel Ulrich and Josephine Dondanville. She was raised and educated at Serena and on April 10, 1892, at the age of 17, she was united in marriage to Louis Emile Dolder in St. John the Baptist church, Somonauk, Illinois.

She moved to Iowa in 1903 with her husband and family and settled in Humboldt county and, except for a short time in Minnesota, lived the rest of her life there.

Anna suffered from diabetes and after having a leg amputated, spent the last years of her life in a nursing home. She died there August 17, 1960 at the age of 86.

She was preceded in death by her husband and an infant daughter. Survivors included five daughters and two sons; Mrs. Clara Andrews; Mrs. Minnie Bollock; Mrs. Ina Jacobsen of Humboldt; Mrs. Etta Hesser of Cosmos, Minn.; Mrs. Iola Hansen of Jefferson; Ernest of Fort Dodge and Harold of Livermore; three brothers, Joseph and Clarence Ulrich of Long Beach, Calif. and Ernest Ulrich of Fort Dodge; 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

Anna is buried in North Lawn cemetery at Fort Dodge, Iowa.