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Elvira Irene Stille Anderson

1908 - 1978

Mrs. Lee (Elvira) Anderson

Services for Mrs. Lee (Elvira) Anderson, 70, a resident of 605 N. Joslin St., who died Tuesday afternoon while enroute to a Rochester, Minn. hospital, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Trinity United Methodist Church. Dr. J. Ellis Webb will officiate. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home after 10:30 a.m. Friday and at the Church after 9 a.m. Saturday.

Elvira Irene Stille Anderson was born Sept. 26, 1908 at Klemme, the daughter of William and Sarah Koerner Stille. She graduated from Klemme High School and attended Long Beach State College and Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls.

On June 6, 1934, she and Lee L. Anderson were married at Klemme. Prior to her marriage she taught school at Floyd. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women, and Grace Circle of that Church, was a member of the Charles City Women's Club, the Pythian Sisters and was past Chief of the Pythian Sisters.

Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. James (Linda) Haley of El Toro, Calif.; and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Connie Anderson of Ashland, New Hampshire. There are three grandsons and one granddaughter.

 

source: Charles City Press, 22 Nov 1978, page 12, column 3

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