ANDERSEN, Emanuel K. 1897-1974

ANDERSEN, ANDERSON

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/13/2019 at 17:10:06

E. K. Andersen Passed Away Jan. 26

E. K. "Sno" Andersen of Dike passed away at the Sartori Memorial Hospital, Cedar Falls, at 6:50 p.m. last Saturday evening, Jan. 26. He had been a patient at the hospital since Jan. 5th.

Funeral services were to be held this past Tuesday morning, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church, with the Reverends Robert and Joan Hoover officiating. Burial was in the Elmwood Cemetery, Dike.

Mrs. John Paige was to play musical selections for the prelude and postlude. Mrs. Don Robson and Mrs. John Volberding had charge of the floral arrangements. Ushers were John Mulder and Phil Roberts. Casket bearers were members of the Dike American Legion Post No. 471--Gerald Bruns, Russell Mommer, Leonard Posekany, Gordon Sloth, John Volberding and James Erpelding.

Masonic services were conducted at the Dike Funeral Chapel by members of Dike Honor Lodge No. 646 at 8 p.m. Monday evening.

E. K. Andersen was born August 22, 1897 in Wesley, Iowa the son of Fred and Venga Petra Twede Andersen. The family moved to Titonka when he was 5 years old. He attended school there, and later went to Hamilton University of Commerce in Mason City. He served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War I.

He married Eleonora Anderson on August 25, 1920 in Council Bluffs. They lived there a year, then moved to Mason City and later to Springfield, Minnesota. In 1925 they moved to Dike where they have resided since. He was in the creamery business and then later in the plumbing and heating business.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church, American Legion Post No. 471, Masonic Honor Lodge No. 646, Veterans of World War I, and a former member of the Dike Grant IOOF Lodge and Elks of Waterloo. He served as a town council member for many years.

Survivors include his widow, Eleonora; two daughters, Mrs. Emil (Loraine) Bock, Cedar Falls and Mrs. Dean (Verna) Bourquin of Geneva, Iowa; one brother, George Andersen of Montrose, Iowa; four sisters, Mrs. Elmer Zeigler of Mason City, Mrs. Emma Drake of Fletcher, Ohio, Mrs. Mary Hallpenny of Kennilworth, Illinois and Mrs. Erma Roelse of Sioux City; and 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Arlene, one sister and three brothers.

A memorial fund has been established.

Dike Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 31 January 1974, pg 6