ANDERSON, Verlin Otis 1917 - 1945

ANDERSON, HUNT, MARTIN, YEAST, RAMSAY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/6/2012 at 20:36:10

"The Fairfield (Ia.,) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, June 9, 1945
Page TWO, Column 7

HOSPITAL NOTES

… Verlin ANDERSON, 601 W. Burlington street, entered this morning as a medical patient. …

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Friday, December 21, 1945
Page 3, Columns 4 and 5

HOSPITAL NOTES

… Verlin O. ANDERSON, 104 West Lowe Street, who has been in poor health for some time was transferred from the hospital yesterday to the University hospital in Iowa City where he is receiving surgical treatment. …

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Monday, December 24, 1945
Page THREE, Column 4

V. ANDERSON DIES SATURDAY

Verlin Otis ANDERSON, prominent young man of Fairfield, passed away Saturday evening at 5:55 at the University Hospital in Iowa City (note: in Johnson Co., IA) where he had been taken Wednesday evening, December 19, for emergency treatment. He had been a patient at the Jefferson county hospital since the preceding Sunday. He had been seriously ill the past three weeks.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Hoskins funeral home in charge of Dr. L. H. Scheerer, assisted by A. K. Harper. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery beside his mother who preceded him in death Feb. 12, 1920 (sic - Mabel B. HUNT ANDERSON, died Feb. 24th, 1920).

Verlin ANDERSON was born in Fairfield, May 19th, 1917, and has spent his entire life in this community. He married Miss Virlee MARTIN, Winfield, on June 26th, 1942. At the present time she is employed as secretary in the county clerk's office and Mr. ANDERSON had been employed at the Harper Brush Factory for the past two years. They recently purchased their home at 104 West Lowe St. and occupied it November 10th of this year. He was a member of the Methodist church at Marsh, Ia. located near his wife's home.

Despite his poor health at various times during his life, Mr. ANDERSON was a great lover of outdoor sports and hunting. He and his father, Otis ANDERSON, 601 West Burlington St., were constant companions on hunting trips.

Besides his wife and father, Mr. ANDERSON is survived by his stepmother, Mrs. Otis ANDERSON; one sister, Mrs. W. E. YEAST, Des Moines; one step-sister, Blanche RAMSAY, Fairfield; two uncles, Abner and Harlan ANDERSON, also of this city, and a host of other relatives and friends.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Friday, December 28, 1945
Page 4, Column 8

CARD OF THANKS.

We are sincerely grateful to our friends and neighbors for their many floral offerings and kind acts of sympathy during our sad bereavement.

Mrs. Verlin ANDERSON,
Mr. and Mrs. Otis ANDERSON,
Mrs. W. E. YEAST,
Miss Blanche RAMSAY.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lot 3rd.038. Wife Virlee subsequently married to Wesley L. JOHNSTON and is buried with him in Lot 4th.099, also in Evergreen Cemetery.