ANDERSON, Mildred A.

ANDERSON, ANDERSSON, BLOOMBERG, PETERSON, LAFAVE, ALESCH, STIEF, WERTHMAN, SNOWGREN, PATTERSON

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/12/2006 at 16:27:19

Mildred A. Anderson

CHEROKEE, Iowa -- Mildred A. Anderson, 96, of Cherokee passed away Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005, at Cherokee Villa following a stroke on Jan. 13. She had resided in the Villa since November 1996.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee, with the Rev. Jim Steen officiating. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Mildred Adina Anderson was born at home Dec. 30, 1908, in Wakefield, Neb., to Arvid and Albertina (Andersson) Bloomberg. She was a small baby, so the Lutheran pastor was called to the home and she was baptized on the day of her birth. The family lived in Wakefield until moving to Cherokee in 1922, where she finished her school years.

On March 13, 1928, she and Leonard Leroy Anderson took the train to Sioux City, where they were united in marriage, which lasted 74 years.

She was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church and was very active in the church before suffering her first stroke in 1996. She was a member of the Ladies Circle, helped with quilting and helped in the church office. She was a member of the Degree of Honor Lodge for more than 50 years and held many offices in the lodge as well as having been a member of their drill team many years ago. She also belonged to several cards clubs and enjoyed sewing and made many dresses for her daughter.

She worked outside the home for a few years at Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital in the early 1950s, but her real purpose in life was being a devoted wife and mother and later spoil her grandchildren. She enjoyed her family, her flowers and plants, playing cards, reading and crossword puzzles.

Those left to cherish her memory include a son and his wife, Carl G. and Anita Anderson of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; a daughter and her husband, Carol and Marvin Peterson of Aurelia, Iowa; eight grandchildren, Steven Anderson, Michael Anderson, Eric Anderson, Lori LaFave, Sheila Alesch, Joseph Peterson, Marvin Peterson and Kathy Stief; 18 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Donald M. Johnson; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leonard on Sept. 17, 2002; two sons, Leonard O. at birth and Richard Anderson in 1977; a son-in-law, Dale Werthman in 1962; a grandson, Theodore in 1974; a granddaughter, Bobbi Snowgren in 2000; a great-grandson, Nathan in 2003; two brothers and their wives, Carl and Carolyn Bloomberg and Milden and Helen Bloomberg; and three sisters, Marina Bloomberg, Goldie and her husband, Kenneth Murphy and Helen and her husband, Tim Patterson.