ANDERSON, Richard "Rich" Gaylord

ANDERSON, FLETCHER, GRIFFITH, TOOHEY

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/16/2013 at 16:10:43

Richard "Rich" Gaylord Anderson, 71, of 200 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, died
Friday, Dec. 19, 2003 at the Muse Norris Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2003, at Zion Lutheran Church,
Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dean Hess officiating. Interment was at the Clear Lake
Cemetery, with military honors by the Clear Lake VFW. Memorials may be left to
Hospice of North Iowa, KCMR, Zion Lutheran Church, ISU Companion Animal Fund,
Clear Lake Public Library or charity of your choice.

Richard was born the son of Olaf A. and Alice Izetta (Fletcher) Anderson, on
Feb. 7, 1932 at rural Eagle Grove, Iowa. Richard graduated from Eagle Grove High
School in 1949. He enlisted in the United States Army in November 1952, and was
discharged in September of 1954. After his military service he was employed for
twenty years in men's retail clothing business at Leuthold Company in Eagle
Grove, Iowa and Platteville, Wisconsin. He later worked for St. Clair Starks in
Mason City, Iowa. Richard married Karen Griffith, Sept. 5, 1959, at the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove. In 1987 Richard began driving van
for Northern Trails AEA, retiring in 1997.

In 1944 Richard was confirmed in the Lutheran faith at the Holmes Lutheran
Church. Richard was an avid golfer, enjoyed playing baseball and softball for
Eagle Grove City League, watching Fox News channel, tennis, WWE wrestling. He
was a member of Heritage Foundation, Zion Lutheran Church, and a charter member
of Rush Limbaugh's "The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy".

Richard is survived by his wife, Karen Anderson, of Clear Lake; daughter, Laura
Toohey and her husband, Vern, of Britt, Iowa; son, Mitch Anderson of East
Wallingford, Vt.; two grandchildren, Ashley Phinney, Clear Lake, and Meagan
Anderson, Forest City, Iowa; a sister, Ruby Jayne Smith and her husband, Dale M.
of Eagle Grove; mother-in-law, Mildred Griffith, Clarion Care Center, Clarion,
Iowa; several nieces and nephews, and his special Yorkie companion, Oliver
Richard Anderson.

His parents and his father-in-law, Cecil Griffith, preceded Richard in death.