Obit: Anderson, Ruth (1898 - 1982)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Anderson, Hagstrom, Enstrom, Webster

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/09/1982

Anderson, Ruth (17 June 1898 – 7 December 1982)

Ruth Anderson, a resident of Neillsville Memorial Home for the past 16 years, passed away at the home on Tuesday morning, December 7.

Funeral services were to be held today (Thursday, December 9) at 1 p.m. from the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville. The Rev. Homer Webster was to officiate with burial in the Town of Seif Cemetery. (Visitation was to be held at the funeral home this morning, Thursday, from 9 till the time of services.

The deceased was born on June 17, 1898, to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hagstrom in Chicago. She received her education in Chicago schools and then worked in that city until her June 1, 1927, marriage to Grant A. Anderson, Sr. The couple made their home in Chicago and later moved to Indiana where they remained for five years. In 1957, the Andersons moved to the Marshfield area and in 1960 to Clark County. On October 8, 1966, Mr. Anderson died, and Mrs. Anderson moved to Memorial Home.

Surviving her is a son, Grant A. Jr., Neillsville; a sister, Mrs. Al (Edna) Enstrom, Sawyer, Mich.; eleven grandchildren; and six great grandchildren. She was preceded in death, besides her husband, by a daughter, Virginia; a sister; and two brothers.