Mary Maxine (Worden) ANDERSON

WORDEN, ANDERSON, WATTS, CAUFIELD, MADOLE, MCGINNIS, PAUL, HARTNETT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:52

18 May 1918 ---- 2 May 2018

Mary Maxine Worden Anderson, 99, of Ankeny, Iowa, passed into eternal life May 2, 2018 at the Suites of Ankeny. Funeral services will be Saturday, May 5th, 11 a.m. at Ankeny First United Methodist Church-Faith Chapel, 7384 NW 16th St., Ankeny, Iowa. Visitation will be held 5-7 p.m. on Friday, May 4th at Memorial Services of Iowa, 4208 N. Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny. Interment at Morgan Center Methodist Church Cemetery, Dows, Iowa.

She was born May 18, 1918 to George and Mary (Watts) Worden and married Marvin A. Anderson June 25, 1938. She is survived by children Maureen (Charles) Caufield, Alan (Karen) Anderson, and Mary Ann (Donald) Madole; sister Glenna McGinnis, 11 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, and 3 great, great grandchildren in addition to many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother Donald Worden and sister Wilma Paul, and grandson Daniel Hartnett.

Maxine attended school in Dows, Iowa and graduated from Drake University. She was a teacher, starting in a one-room country school and retiring from the Ballard School System as a third grade teacher in Kelley. She also taught in the Allison-Bristow and Bondurant Farrar school systems.

Memorials may be directed to her church, the Ankeny First United Methodist Church, or DMARC Food Pantry.

Des Moines Register -- Iowa
May 4, 2018