Shirley JoAnn (Dankel) ANDERSON

DANKEL, ANDERSON, EWART, KRUSE, PACKARD, FRY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/10/2014 at 12:32:23

July 20, 1929 --- October 6, 2014

Shirley JoAnn Dankel Anderson, 85, was born on July 20, 1929, in Carroll, to William and Julia Hazel (Ewart) Dankel. She died October 6, at Edgewater Retirement Community in West Des Moines. She graduated from Glidden Consolidated School in 1946 and graduated with a two-year teaching certificate from Iowa State Teacher¹s College in 1948. She taught kindergarten in Sac City and Eagle Grove and a class of four primary grades in Wesley.

JoAnn married John B. Anderson in Lake View, on August 24, 1952. John and she owned newspapers in Britt and Storm Lake. They had three daughters, Elizabeth, Krista and Janet. JoAnn was the ultimate homemaker and volunteer. JoAnn¹s Britt volunteer jobs included Girl Scouts, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, Methodist Church education committee, Community Chest secretary, library board chair, and hospital auxiliary newsletter editor. Storm Lake United Methodist Church activities included pastor-parish relations board, trustee, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, United Methodist Women, education committee, financial drives, and lay visitation. She served on the district library board for Northwest Iowa. She was involved with Republican Women and served as Buena Vista County Republican election headquarters chair in 1968. She held numerous offices in P.E.O. chapter JD, including president. Other Storm Lake volunteer work included Buena Vista County Hospital Auxiliary; Community Chest; homeroom mother; Girl Scouts; Hospice; golf boards at the Storm Lake Municipal Golf Course and Lake Creek Country Club; golf chair when Lake Creek hosted the IWGA State Tournament; Methodist Manor, where she gave manicures for more than 25 years; Volunteer Service League chairman and Meals on Wheels board and deliverer.

She liked to golf, read, garden, bake, sew, travel, bird-watch, eat lemon pie and chocolate, spend winters in Arizona, and live on the lake at Storm Lake. In 2011, Jo and John moved to Edgewater Retirement Community in West Des Moines.

JoAnn is survived by her husband John; daughters Elizabeth Anderson (Loren Kruse), Ankeny; Krista Packard (Guy), Holland, Mich.; and Janet Fry (Steve), West Des Moines; brother Berkeley Dankel, Lake View; and grandchildren Chris Packard, St. Joseph, Michigan; John Kruse, Manhattan, Kan.; Erin Fry, Ames; Anne Packard, West Lafayette, Ind.; Kate Kruse, Ames; and Kyra Fry, Fort Worth, Texas; and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Duane.

Graveside services will be Friday, Oct. 17 at 11:30 a.m. at the Storm Lake Municipal Cemetery. Friends may greet the family following at a luncheon at the Storm Lake United Methodist Church. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. at Edgewater Retirement Community, 9225 Cascade Ave., West Des Moines. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Storm Lake United Methodist Church or the Edgewater Good Samaritan Fund. Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home, Storm Lake, is in charge of arrangements.

Storm Lake Pilot Tribune - Storm Lake, Iowa
October 9, 2014