ANDERSEN, Oswald

ANDERSEN, MILLER, NORDSTROM, CHIVERS, MESECK, FISCHER, HASKINS, MEFFERD, WAPLES, FULLER, ROBINSON, BECKER, ELDER

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/26/2006 at 11:01:58

OSWALD ANDERSEN

Memorial services for Oswald Andersen, 92, of Aurelia, will be 11:00 A.M. Friday, September 10, 2004, at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Jack Weida officiating. Visitation will be at the church prior to the service beginning at 10:00 A.M. Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of the arrangements. A memorial fund has been established.

Oswald became a resident of the Cherokee Villa in July, and died Thursday, September 2, 2004, at the Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital in Cherokee.

Oswald Neil Andersen was born on August 29, 1912, the son of Otto and Agnes (Miller) Andersen near Linn Grove, Iowa. He attended Fairview School. Oswald worked in a bakery in Chicago for eight months, then came back to work with a carpenter. On June 5, 1940, Oswald married Vera Caroline Nordstrom at the Methodist Church in Aurelia. In 1940 they began farming west of Aurelia, they then moved to a farm east of Alta, where they would remain for seven years until returning to Aurelia in 1950. Oswald was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Knights of Pythius.

Preceding Oswald in death were his parents, his wife Vera on January 26, 2001, three sisters, Severn Chivers, Viola Meseck, and Asther Fischer, nine brothers, Quentin, Lennart, Lester, Leslie, Clarence, Arol, Kermit, Gladwyn, and Marvin Andersen, and son-in-law Charles Haskins.

Survivors include one son, Orlyn and his wife Joan Andersen of Aurelia, two daughters, Carolyn and her husband Richard Mefferd of Gilmore City, IA, and Marilyn Haskins of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, nine grandchildren, Jamie Mefferd, Troy and his wife Holly Mefferd, Ryan Mefferd, Aaron Mefferd, Heather Andersen, Owen Andersen, Hilary Andersen, Lindsey Haskins and Kylie Haskins. Also surviving are one brother, Vincent and his wife Mary Andersen of Richmond, CA, three sisters, Vivian Waples of LaMirada, CA, Carla Fuller of Danville, CA, and Margie Robinson of Marengo, IA, three brothers-in-law, Herman Fischer of San Francisco, CA, and Vincent Becker and Gene Elder both of Cherokee, four sisters-in-law, Eunice Andersen of Aurelia, Minnie Andersen of Alta, Cathy Andersen of Superior, WI, and Gloria Andersen of Alexandra, VI, and a host of nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.