Ovidia Berenthine (Tjernagel) Anderson (1893-1966)

TJERNAGEL, ANDERSON, BENSON, OLSON, IVERSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/6/2021 at 18:24:20

From Nevada Journal July 27, 1966 (page 1)

Ovidia Anderson, 72, Dies At SC Hospital Tuesday Evening

Mrs. Ovidia B. Anderson of rural Story City, 72 years of age, died at the Story City Memorial Hospital at 9:10 p.m. Tuesday. She had been a patient there for four months with cancer.

Mrs. Anderson was born Dec. 15, 1893 at Williams, Ia., the daughter of Peter and Hannah Tjernagel.

Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Elim Lutheran Church at Randall with Rev. Quentin Quanbeck officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Olive Cemetery near Randall. Friends may call at the Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home in Story City until time of services.

She was preceded in death by her husband, A.C. Anderson, a former Ames radio announcer, on Dec. 9, 1958 and by two daughters.

Survivors are two sons - Arnold Anderson of Randall and Orlin Anderson of Des Moines; two daughters, Grace (Mrs. Walter Benson) of Spencer and Bernice (Mrs. Milo Olson) of Randall; sixteen grandchildren; two brothers, Peter Tjernagel of Story City and Chris Tjernagel of Story City an Chris Tjernagel of Springfield, Va., and one sister, Bertha (Mrs. Bloyd Iverson) of Ames.