Clara (Thorsbakken) Anderson (1902-1972)

THORSBAKKEN, ANDERSON, NELSON, HAATVVEDT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/17/2020 at 16:18:02

From Nevada Evening Journal January 12, 1973 (page 2)

DEATHS

Mrs. Clara Anderson

Pastor A. J. Bringle officiated at the funeral services for Mrs. Clara Anderson at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 22, in the Elim Lutheran Church, Randall. Pastor Howard Lybeck of Roland spoke a few words in behalf of the family.

Miss Louise Olson, organist accompanied Delbert Quam as he sang "How Great Thou Art" and "My Jesus As Thou Wilt."

Burial was in Mt. Olive Cemetery near Randall.

On Jan. 18, 1922, she was united in marriage to Neil Morris Anderson. They lived in Gilbert before moving to her present home in Randall.

Mrs. Anderson died at Mary Greeley Hospital, Ames on Tuesday, Dec. 19, following a brief illness at the age of 70.

Survivors include two sons, Arnold I. Anderson of Roland and Wilford Anderson of Adel, seven grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Inger Anderson, Nevada, Mrs. Beatrice Nelson of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Esther Haatvedt of Roland, and one brother, Leonard Thorsbakken of Fort Dodge, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Morris Anderson on Oct. 14, 1955, and by her parents, two grandchildren, two sisters and one brother.