Edna Gertrude Dixon Anderson 1894-1977

ANDERSON, DIXON, WAYSON, ELLIOTT

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 8/14/2011 at 23:25:53

Estherville – Services for Mrs. Edna Anderson, 83, Estherville, will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Union Baptist Church here with the Rev. Fred Glasser officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. Mrs. Anderson died Sunday at a Waterloo hospital. Friends may call at Henry Olson Funeral Home, Estherville, after 11 a.m. Wednesday until 11:30 a.m. Thursday, when the body will be taken to the church. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 11, 1977)

Mrs. Edna Anderson
1894-1977
Waterloo – Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Gertrude Anderson, 83, Estherville, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Union Baptist Church, Estherville. The Rev. Fred Glasser will officiate. Burial will be in the East Side Cemetery. Henry and Olson Funeral Home, Estherville, is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Anderson died Oct. 9 at Allen Hospital, Waterloo.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dixon, she was born on April 13, 1894, at Rose Creek, Minn. Mrs. Anderson was educated in the Rose Creek schools. On May 1, 1911, she was married to Andrew H. Anderson at Albert Lea, Minn. She lived most of her married life in Estherville after moving to Estherville in 1911.

Mrs. Anderson was a member of the Union Baptist Church, the Royal Neighbors and the Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Claude (Marvyl) Wayson, Waterloo; two sons, Harold Everett Anderson, Altaville, Calif., and Roland L. Anderson, Marion; one sister, Mrs. Mabel Elliott, Big Lake, Minn.; twelve grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and two great-great granddaughters. She was preceded in death by her husband, in 1952, her parents, five sisters and four brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 12, 1977)