Anderson, Geralda Elaine (Chase) 1928-2008

ANDERSON, CHASE, GUNDERSON, GRAY, DAVIDSON, VANDER SANDEN, NOLDEN, WILMOT, HOGENSON, HANSON, BROWN, HAGEMAN, BRICKLEY, KABLISKA

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/10/2012 at 12:18:36

Geralda E. Anderson, age 80, of Cresco, Iowa, and formerly of Decorah, died Monday, April 28, 2008 at Regional Health Services of Howard County in Cresco after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Friday, May 2, 2008 at Decorah Lutheran Church in Decorah with Rev. Bryan Robertson officiating. Burial will be in Pontoppidan Cemetery in rural Decorah.

Friends may call from 4:00-7:00 PM Thursday, May 1, 2008 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah and an hour prior to the services on Friday at the church.

Geralda Elaine (Chase) Anderson was born March 6, 1928 at home in Becker County, Minnesota, the first child of Harold and Inga (Gunderson) Chase. She attended rural schools before moving to Decorah, Iowa where she met and married Leonard O. Anderson on May 15, 1945. They became the parents of Karen Kay and Dennis Arden.

The family spent several years in Winneshiek County before moving to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Here the Andersons enjoyed camping, fishing, gardening and the great outdoors. Geralda loved birds and angels and she had collections for both of them. After retirement Leonard and Geralda moved back to Decorah to be near family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leonard, on April 18, 2007; her daughter, Karen, and son, Dennis; and her brother, Etzel Chase.

She is survived by her brothers, sister and sister-in-law: Wayne and Carol Chase of Detroit Lakes, MN, Gale Chase and Laura of Minneapolis, MN, June and Glen Gray of Andover, MN, and Sharon (Mrs. Etzel) Chase of Detroit Lakes, MN; one brother-in-law and nine sisters-in-law: Rueben (Donna) Anderson, Pearl Davidson, Louise Vander Sanden, Lorraine (Roger) Nolden all of Sun Prairie, WI, Florence Wilmot of Clarksville, IA, Arlene Hogenson of Decorah, IA, Verna (Willard) Hanson of Decorah, Ellen (Arland) Brown of Mabel, MN, Gladys (Lawrence) Hageman of Cresco, IA, and Gloria Anderson of Waunakee, WI.

Geralda will be missed by many, but especially by her first cousins and caretakers, Arlene Brickley and Vernelle Kabliska of Cresco, IA.

Source: Fjelstul Funeral Home database

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