Marie M. Anderson 1913 - 1997

ANDERSON, MILLER, LARSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/19/2014 at 22:32:40

22 September 1997

WHITING, Iowa — Marie M. Anderson, 83, of Whiting died Sunday, Sept. 21, 1997, at the Pleasant View Care Centre in Whiting.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Church of Christ in Whiting, with Shawn Walden, minister, and Pastor Rusty Hedger officiating. Burial will be in Harrison Cemetery, rural Whiting. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at the Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa, Iowa.

Mrs. Anderson was born Oct. 5, 1913, in rural Onawa, the daughter of Charles and Eva (Miller) Larson. She graduated from Whiting High School in 1931. She married Howard Anderson on Nov. 19, 1932, in Elk Point, S.D. The couple farmed in the Sloan and Whiting area until his death on Dec. 28, 1982, in Onawa. She enjoyed gardening and canning.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Sally and Jack Valentine of Whiting; a son and his wife, Richard and Karen of Whiting; 11 grandchildren, Steve and Dave Valentine, Cindy Zortman, Lori Cooper, Brenda Abramovich, Robyn Lieber, Renee Butt, Ronda MacClure, Rachel Martin, Rich and Rod Anderson; three sisters, Margie Lee of Sloan, Iowa, Faye and her husband Leon Henkel of Whiting and Jean and her husband Billy Hathaway of Turin, Iowa; three sisters-in-law, Eunice Larson of Onawa, Minnie and her husband Barney Thomas of Des Moines and Dollie Heck of Denver, Colo.; a brother-in-law, and his wife, Donnie and Mary of Whiting; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by an infant sister, Lucille; and infant brother, Lewis; and a brother, Bud Larson.