Janice K. (Will) Anderson 1934 - 2020

WILL, ANDERSON, TOEDT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 12/13/2020 at 14:10:30

Sioux City Journal
19 August 2020

Janice K. Anderson

Hayward, Wis., formerly Pierson, Iowa

Janice K. (Will) Anderson, 86, of Hayward, formerly of Pierson, passed away Sunday, March 22, 2020, at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minn.

Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Saturday in Kingsley Cemetery, Kingsley, Iowa, with the Rev. Tami Groth of Salem Lutheran Church officiating. Following the graveside service, there will be a visitation with the family until 4 p.m. at Rohde Funeral Home in Kingsley. Online condolences may be sent to rohdefh.com.

Janice was born on March 8, 1934, in rural Pierson, the daughter of Otto and Charlotte (Toedt) Will. Janice graduated from Pierson High School in 1951. She received her B.S. degree in elementary education from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, in 1955.

She married her Wartburg College classmate, Dean Anderson, from Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1956. Later, they attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where Janice received an M.S. in education in 1963. She had also attended Morningside College in Sioux City, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

A major challenge for her was managing Type I diabetes, which she acquired after three weeks in 1955. In 2005 Janice was awarded a 50-year medal from Joslin Diabetic Center in Boston, Mass., for this achievement. She enjoyed traveling in 49 states and especially enjoyed trips to the Bahamas, Germany, Switzerland and Austria with her husband, Dean. Hobbies included sewing, gardening, canoeing, hiking and teaching young people to read.

Janice is survived by her son, Scott (Theresa Wilson) Anderson of Hayward; a sister-in-law, Irene (Anderson) Brockmann of Cross Plains, Wis.; and two nephews, Dennis (JoAnn) Brockmann of Vancouver, Wash., and Calvin (JoAnn) Brockmann of Oak Creek, Wis., and their families; as well as cousins in Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Charlotte Will; and her husband of 58 years, Dean Anderson.

Memorials may be given in her name to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association.