Minnie Benora (Sivesind) Anderson

SIVESIND, GRINAGER, ANDERSON, HANSON, JOHNSON, PALMER, ROSENDAHL, FLATIN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/7/2011 at 21:22:23

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, February 28, 1989
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Minnie Benora Anderson, age 94, now of Waukon, Iowa, formerly of Spring Grove, Minnesota, died Tuesday, February 21, 1989 at Veteran's Memorial Hospital in Waukon, Iowa. Funeral services were held February 24 at 10:30 a.m. in St.John's Lutheran Church in Waukon, Iowa with the Rev. Lynn Groe officiating. Burial was in Trinity Cemetery in Spring Grove, MN with Roble Funeral Home of Spring Grove in charge of arrangements.

Minnie was born November 19, 1894 in Houston County, Minnesota to Martin and Bertha (Grinager) Sivesind. She attended rural schools in Wilmington Township. On August 22, 1914 she married Albert Anderson in Caledonia, Minnesota. He died October 24, 1962 as a result of an accident. She was a member of St.John's Lutheran Church in Waukon and previously was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Spring Grove.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son John Anderson who died December 30, 1971; three sisters, Clara Rosendahl, Louise Flatin, and Amanda Sivesind in infancy; also, 2 brothers Alfred and Henry Sivesind.

Surviving are a granddaughter, Virgie Hanson of Waukon, Iowa; five great-grandchildren, Twyla Johnson of Portland, Oregon, Darcy Palmer of Lawrence,Oregon, and Wade, Shawn, and Shanna Hanson of Waukon,Iowa, and a daughter-in-law Celia Anderson of Waukon.