Anderson, Stanley R. 1921-2001

ANDERSON, ERICKSON, PETERSON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/9/2007 at 12:40:43

STANLEY R. ANDERSON

AKRON, Iowa --- Stanley R. Anderson, 79, of West Akron, S.D., died Saturday, May 19, 2001, at Akron Care Center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Akron, with the Rev. Curtis Matson officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Akron, with military rites conducted by Hoschler American Legion Post 186 of Akron. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 8 p.m., at Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.

Mr. Anderson was born Dec. 28, 1921, in Union County, S.D., the son of Robert and Olga (Erickson) Anderson. He graduated from Akron High School. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, stationed in Japan and Hawaii. He married Rosella Peterson on Oct. 6, 1946, at Immanuel Lutheran Church. She died Jan. 10, 1997. He farmed from 1946 until his retirement in 1984 on the family homestead, which ahs been located in South Dakota since 1876.

He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Farm Bureau, Spring Creek School Board and Sioux Valley Township Board for many years. He served on the Union County Soil and Conservation Board of Directors for 32 years and half of that time served as chairman of the board. He served on the ASC Board for three years. He was member of Hoschler American Legion Post 186 and the VFW.

Survivors include two sons, Richard O. and his wife, Peggy, of Sioux City, and Rodney L. of Sioux Falls, S.D.; a daughter, Anita Johnson and her husband, Bruce, of Beresford, S.D.; four grandchildren, Jennifer Ellingson, Wade Johnson, Amy Anderson and Ryan Anderson; and a sister, Francis Mollet and her husband, Lyman, of Vermillion.

He also was preceded in death by his parents, an infant daughter Carol, and a brother, Conrad.

Pallbearers will be Ryan Anderson, Wade Johnson, Mark Mollet, Tom Knutson, Tom Nason and Pat Ellingson.

[Part of the Darrell Easton Obituary Collection; source: the Sioux City Journal]