OBITUARY: C. Frances Leidall Anderson, Mitchell County, Iowa

(St. Ansgar Enterprise, St. Ansgar, Iowa; 3 MAR 1977 )


                         C. Frances Anderson

Funeral services for Mrs. Melvin (Frances) Anderson, 81, who died in Austin
February 18, were held Feb. 24 at Faith United Methodist church in Austin
with the Rev. Howard Bredesen officiating. Interment will be in the spring at
Six Mile Grove cemetery, Lyle.

C. Frances Anderson, the only daughter of Knut and Emma (Knudson)
Leidall, was born in Mitchell County September 15, 1895. She was baptized
and confirmed at the Six Mile Grove Lutheran church and attended the rural
Union township No. 5 school, and graduated from Lyle high school.

July 27, 1917 she married Melvin S. Anderson and four children were born to
them.

They spent the first years of their life on a farm in Nevada township and later
moved to Lyle where her husband Melvin operated a filling station from 1934
to 1947. They moved back to Austin. Mrs. Anderson had been a member of
Six Mile Grove and Our Savior's Lutheran Churches and since moving to
Austin a member of Faith United Methodist Church.

Survivors are three sons: Vernon and Darrell of Austin; and Wayne W. of
Costa Mesa, Calif.; one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Darlene) Wilson of Garden
Grove, Calif.; nine grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; two brothers,
Leonard Leidall of Lyle and Oscar Leidall of Marion, North Dakota.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, Melvin in 1974; six
brothers, Albert, Robert, Willie, Fred, Clifford and Walter Leidall.


Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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