Rev. Stanley E. Anderson 1919-2012

ANDERSON WERNECKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/27/2012 at 10:14:51

Sioux City Journal
September 07, 2012

Rev. Stanley E. Anderson, St. Louis, Mo., formerly of Sioux City, passed away Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, at his home.

Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Hoffmeister Colonial Mortuary at Watson in St. Louis. Interment will be in St. Paul Churchyard. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Stanley was born on Nov. 6, 1919, in Sioux City, and raised by his grandmother, Jenny Anderson. He attended Central High School in Sioux City. He graduated from Morningside College in 1942 and from Eden Seminary in St. Louis in 1945. He received a master’s degree in history from Washington University in 1950.

Stanley married Eunice I. Wernecke on April 7, 1945, in Webster Groves, Mo. He began his ministry serving West Blue Church in Milford, Neb., the United Church of Christ in Goehner, Neb., then UCC churches in Weldon Spring and Cottleville, Mo. from 1948 to 1950 and at St. Paul’s Church in Oakville, Mo. until 1958. From 1958 to 1969, he served Peace Church in Rochester, Minn. He also had a telephone ministry there called the Minute Meditation. He served St. Luke’s United Church of Christ in St. Louis from 1969 until his retirement.

He loved crossword puzzles, Model T automobiles and Cracker Jacks. His favorite attire was a white shirt and a black tie.

Survivors include his wife, Eunice; three children, Caroline (Dirk) Peterson of Sioux Falls, S.D., Fred (Kathy) Anderson of St. Louis, and Mary Anderson of St. Louis; two grandchildren, Erik (Marcy) Peterson of Sioux City and Kristen (Bob) Gostomski of Des Moines; three great-grandchildren, Soren, Jack and Bo; and two sisters, June Zody of Montana and Shirley Peck of Sioux City.