Clara Hazel Minton Anderson 1895-1976

ANDERSON MINTON, MATTHEW, VACURA, CLABAUGH

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/4/2013 at 00:00:12

Clara Anderson
Estherville – Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Hazel Anderson, 81, were held May 10 at the Estherville Presbyterian Church with burial at the High Lake Cemetery. She died May 7.

Mrs. Anderson was born March 19, 1895 at Reinbeck to Henry and Anna Minton and was educated in the Reinbeck schools. She taught there and at Grundy Center. She was married to Sam Anderson Aug. 7, 1917 at Waterloo and they moved to a farm near Estherville in 1926.

Survivors include two sons, Gail Anderson, Omaha, Neb., and Rex Anderson, Ringsted; four daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Charlotte) Matthew, Clinton, Mo.; Mrs. Raymond (Elizabeth) Vacura, Jackson, Minn.; Mrs. Alvin (Edith) Clabuagh, Estherville; and Mrs. Alton (Margaret) Clabaugh, Dolliver; 25 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968, one son, one daughter, one grandson, parents, four brothers and one sister. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 18, 1976)