Betty Jean (Siemens) ANDERSEN

ANDERSEN, SIEMENS, BJORKLUND, LISTER, DOUGLAS, HANSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/24/2007 at 00:49:17

September 18, 2003
Mason City Globe Gazette

HUMBOLDT — Betty Jean Andersen, 78, of Humboldt, passed away Sunday (Sept. 14, 2003) at the Nora Springs Care Center. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. today at the Mason-Lindhart Funeral Home in Humboldt. Visitation was held Wednesday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Andersen is survived by her son, Nicklos Andersen and his wife, Leandra, of Cedar Falls; daughters, Jena Bjorklund and her husband, Bernard, of Nora Springs, and Karen Lister of Columbia, S.C.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; three step-great- great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, Kenneth and Carol Siemens of Joplin, Mo., Donald and Velma Siemens of Collinaville, Okla., and Bernard and Mary Siemens of Onamia, Minn.; sister and brother-in-law, Margrete and T. Wayne Douglas of Park Rapids, Minn.; sister-in-law, Arlene Siemens of Forest City; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, William Rasmus Siemens; sister-in-law, Harriett Siemens; and son-in-law, J. Richard Lister.

Betty Jean Siemens, the daughter of Marinus J. and Jennie A (Hansen) Siemens, was born Jan. 4, 1925, at home in Boone Township near Goldfield. She was baptized at the age of 12 in the Christian Church in Goldfield and received her education in Boone Township #6 school and graduated from Renwick High School. She was married to Arne Andersen in 1943 and the couple made their home in the Hardy area. In 1947 they made their home at Goldfield until moving to Humboldt in 1972. Mrs. Andersen attended Iowa Central Community College and while in Humboldt was employed as a Licensed Practical Nurse at the Humboldt County Memorial Hospital. Betty continued to maintain her home until becoming a resident of the Nora Springs Care Center in 1997. Mrs. Andersen was a member of the Northfield Church of Christ in Fort Dodge and the Prayer Chain at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Nora Springs. She enjoyed making quilts, writing letters, reading, living her faith through being an example to others and hearing of activities of her grandchildren.