Anderson, Rena Dahlien (1903-2000)

ANDERSON, DAHLIEN, TONKINSON, ILES, SACKRISON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 1/28/2023 at 14:32:14

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Rena Anderson, 97, Stratford, died at the Stratford Nursing and Rehab Center in Stratford on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2000. Services will be held on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Calvary United Methodist Church in Stratford with Rev. Dale Schoening officiating. A private burial will be held at Oakwood Cemetery north of Stratford. Visitation will be held at the Stark-Welin Funeral Home in Stratford on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. and Thursday morning from 9 - 11:30 a.m. when the casket will be taken to the church. The family will be present Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. Following the services, the body will be cremated.

Rena Dahlien was born August 10, 1903 in Stratford, the daughter of Ed and Selma Anderson Dahlien. She was a 1921 graduate of Stratford High School and worked at various businesses in Stratford, was a school cook at Stratford High School, worked in clothing retail in Webster City, where she also managed a clothing store, and was a nurses aide at Stratford Care Center. She married Earl E. Anderson on Nov. 22, 1941 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. She was a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church.

Survivors are a daughter and son-in-law, Earlys and Roger Tonkinson, Mesa, Ariz., one son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Donella Iles, Stratford; seven grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl in January of 1982, an infant daughter, Dorothy Iles, and one sister, Agnes Sackrison in December, 1990.