Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today at Helmer-Shields Funeral Home, Granville, Ill. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Putnam County Educational Foundation for the Anderson-Woest Scholarship Fund.
Mrs. Anderson was born Oct. 4, 1928, in Moline, to Oscar A. and Florence A. Luckunbihl Woest. She married Wilbur "Bill" M. Anderson Jan. 1, 1947, in Rock Island.
Mrs. Anderson worked for the controller of Deere and Company at the Moline home office for 15 years before moving to Austin, Texas. She worked as the administrative assistant for the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. When her judge was appointed to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court by President Reagan, Judge Garwood took her with him as his office manager. She retired from that position in 1991. She and her husband then moved to Magnolia to be near her mother and sister.
She is survived by her husband and one sister, Sandra Woest, Magnolia.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and a nephew.
(Dispatch-Argus, Feb. 1, 2007)
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today at Helmer-Shields Funeral Home, Granville, Ill. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Putnam County Educational Foundation for the Anderson-Woest Scholarship Fund.
Mrs. Anderson was born Oct. 4, 1928, in Moline, to Oscar A. and Florence A. Luckunbihl Woest. She married Wilbur "Bill" M. Anderson Jan. 1, 1947, in Rock Island.
Mrs. Anderson worked for the controller of Deere and Company at the Moline home office for 15 years before moving to Austin, Texas. She worked as the administrative assistant for the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. When her judge was appointed to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court by President Reagan, Judge Garwood took her with him as his office manager. She retired from that position in 1991. She and her husband then moved to Magnolia to be near her mother and sister.
She is survived by her husband and one sister, Sandra Woest, Magnolia.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and a nephew.
(Dispatch-Argus, Feb. 1, 2007)
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