WILSON, Anna 1918-2002

WILSON, MULLER, ECKHOFF

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 7/4/2014 at 09:48:10

Anna Gerdean Wilson, 84, of Grundy Center, passed away on Friday, Oct. 18 at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at the Colfax Center Presbyterian Church with burial following in the church cemetery. A memorial fund has been established.

Anna was born on July 14, 1918 in Holland, the daughter of Sievert and Rieka (Eckhoff) Muller. She was united in marriage to Wilbert Wilson on July 1, 1939 at the Colfax Center Presbyterian Church in rural Holland. She worked at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital for 22 1/2 years, retiring in 1984. She was a member of the Colfax Center Presbyterian Church in Holland.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; daughter-in-law Shirley Wilson; five brothers, Ben, Eilert, Hans, Sievert, and Melvin; four sisters, Ella Kuper, Tena Raske, Violet Herkes, and Jennie Tjepkes.

Surviving Anna are her son Ray and wife Ruthann of Grundy Center; a daughter Lorna Jean and husband Claire "Bud" Venenga of Stout; two grandsons Kevin and Andrea Wilson and Kurt and Wendy Venenga; three great-grandchildren, Brady and Caitlin Wilson and Andrew Venenga; a step-granddaughter, Tammy Sternhagen; a brother Raymond (Donna) Muller of Grundy Center; two sisters, Kate Syhlman and Frieda Mast both of Grundy Center.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 24 October 2002, pg 2