Minnie Henrietta Dadt Anderson 1907-1991

ANDERSON, DADT, GRASMUCK, DEVITT, ROBINSON, OLBERTZ, GREENWALD

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/22/2012 at 15:08:02

Minnie Anderson
Huntington – Services for Minnie Henrietta Anderson, 83, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Estherville Lutheran Church with Pastor Kermit Rye officiating. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Thursday, August 15, 1991 at her home in Huntington.

Friends may call at the Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville after 4 p.m. Sunday. She was born November 26, 1907 in Hayes Township of Ida County, Iowa, the daughter of George and Dora (Grasmuck) Dadt and attended Ellsworth Township schools. On June 15 1940 she married Andrew Anderson in the Little Brown Church at Nashua. She was employed as a switchboard operator for the Ellsworth Township area. The couple lived in Middleton, Wis. following marriage and returned to Iowa in 1946 where they lived in Huntington. The couple farmed at Arthur from 1957-79 before returning to Huntington. She was a member of the Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include her husband, Andrew of Huntington; three sons: Everett, Wind Lake, Wis., Anthony, Jordan, Minn. and Alvin, Panorama City, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Anna) Devitt, Cypress, Calif. and Mrs. Douglas (Mary) Robinson, Estherville; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two sisters: Margaret Olbertz and Gertrude Greenwald, both of Ida Grove; a sister-in-law, Margaret Dadt, Ida Grove.

She was preceded in death by her parents; step-parents, one brother and two sisters. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, August 1, 1991)