Georgia Louise Anderson

ANDERSON MILES HEANEY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/3/2010 at 15:28:15

Sioux City Journal
19 July 2010

SIOUX CITY -- Georgia L. Anderson, 81, of Sioux City passed away Thursday evening, July 15, 2010, at Touchstone Living Center in Sioux City.

Services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa, with the Rev. Magrey deVega officiating. Burial will be in the Meriden Cemetery at Meriden, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Visitation will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at boothbyfuneral.com.

Georgia Louise Anderson, the daughter of D. Gordon Heaney and Martha (Miles) Heaney Runnings, was born on March 23, 1929, at the home of her grandparents, William and Mabel Miles, on East Spruce Street in Cherokee, Iowa. Her parents farmed one mile west of Meriden, Iowa. She was baptized in the Meriden Presbyterian Church on July 17, 1932. She graduated from Meriden High School.

She was married to Verland Joseph Anderson on May 17, 1947. To this union there was one son, Paul Steven Anderson. Georgia and Verland lived in a small farm house until 1953. In 1953, Georgia worked as an aide at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute, where she attended psychiatric training, graduating in 1956. Moving to Sioux City in 1962, she was a receptionist for Drs. Gittins, Dvorak & Heinman and later, a receptionist for Dr. Richard E. Getman. After her retirement she was a Senior Companion for 17 years.

She is survived by her former husband, Verland Anderson of Sioux City; a son, Dr. P. Steven Anderson and his wife, Lynette of Yankton, S.D.; a granddaughter, Heather Anderson Budde and her husband, Tim of Buffalo, Minn.; a grandson, Brent Anderson of Yankton; four great-grandchildren, Taylor, Mitchell, Hannah and Alexander Budde of Buffalo; and a brother, David Heaney and his wife, Patricia of Petaluma, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Howard Miles Heaney; and a brother, William Gordon Heaney.