Gladys Anderson

The funeral service for Gladys Fern Anderson will be a 11:00 AM Friday, February 4, 2005 at Salem Lutheran Church, Albert Lea, MN. The Reverend Jay Dahlvang will officiate. Burial will be in Shady Oaks Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 Thursday at Bonnerup Funeral Service and one hour before the service at the church. Gladys died on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at Albert Lea Medical Center. She was 90 years old. Gladys was born in Harris, Iowa on December 15, 1914, the daughter of Mike and Edna (Waples) Wills. She attended school in Forest, Illinois. On November 3, 1934 Gladys was united in marriage with Leslie Albert Anderson. She was a member of Salem Lutheran Church where she had been active in women?s groups, and altar guild. She had worked as an aid at Naeve Hospital and done housekeeping for Albert Lea Bowling Alley, private residences and for 43 years at Bonnerup Funeral Service. She enjoyed knitting, baking, cooking and having coffee partys. She loved her family and liked spending time with her grandchildren.

Gladys is survived by two children: Carol Miller and her husband, David of Albert Lea, MN, Leslie Robert Bob Anderson and his wife, Ann of Harmony, MN; seven grandchildren: Roberta Sheldon and her husband, Jim of Eyota, MN, Charles Anderson and his wife, Eileen of Henderson, MN, Christine Mawby and her husband, Eric of Windom, NH, Pat Anderson of Chatfield, MN, Paul Anderson and his wife, Kelly of Winona, MN, Michael Miller and his wife, Julie of Albert Lea, MN, Douglas Miller of Albert Lea, MN; seven great grandchildren; three step great grandchildren; one sister, Evonn Wilken of Fairbury, IL.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Leslie Albert Anderson in 1978; one sister, Odessa Wills; three brothers: Lewis and Albert Wills and LaMoine William Bill Mammen.