Anna Margrete Anderson 1878-1960

ANDERSON, PETERSON, LINGE

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 9/9/2013 at 01:06:02

Miss Anna Anderson Dies
Anna Margrete Anderson, 82, well-known Emmet County resident and retired school teacher, died yesterday about 7:30 p.m. at the home of her nephew, Lars Anderson, where she had been making her home since Dec. 7. Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage suffered March 1. Miss Anderson had been in a coma for the past six days.

Born Aug. 28, 1878, she was the daughter of Lars P. and Anne Elizabeth Anderson. She moved with her family to a farm northwest of Gruver in1893 and had lived on the same farm her entire life with the exception of the past three and a half months spent with the Lars Anderson family.

In October, 1959, Miss Anderson’s farm home was damaged extensively by fire but was rebuilt that winter. Shortly after that she slipped and fell, fracturing her ankle, and it from that time on had been in failing health. In November she was admitted to the hospital for treatment but only a short time after returning home, moved to her nephew’s home.

Miss Anderson was a great lover of flowers and her flower garden, so long as her health permitted her to tend it, was well known in this area. During the summer months hardly a day passed but some visitor called there and very few came away without some root, a slip from a plan or a bouquet of flowers.

Miss Anderson attended rural schools of Emmet County and received her teacher’s training in Spirit Lake. For 50 years, she taught school in Emmet County with the exception of two years when she taught in North Dakota. When she retired after 50 years of teaching, former pupils and friends held a party in her honor and presented her with a wrist watch.

Miss Anderson was a member of the Gruver Presbyterian Church and a member of UPW.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Victor (Emmet) Peterson of Sioux City; three brothers, T.E. and Nels Anderson, both of rural Estherville, Jim Anderson of Lisbon, N.D., and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services for Miss Anderson are to be held Monday at 2 p.m. in Gruver Presbyterian Church, the Rev. L.V. Osborne officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.

Six nephews, Lars, Harold, Francis and Oliver Anderson and Ivan and Marvin Linge, are to be pallbearers.

Friends may call at the Sternborg-Reese Funeral Home from Saturday afternoon until 10 a.m. Monday when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state until time of the services.

A memorial fund has been established. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, March 18, 1960)