Mrs. Effie E. Anderson of Dishman died here last Saturday at the age of 82 years.
She suffered a stroke about two months ago. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Olaf Stoeve at the Thornhill Valley funeral home in Spokane Tuesday. Burial was in the Pines cemetery, Opportunity.
With her husband, the late E. G. (Ted) Anderson, she lived on a farm in the Ralston vicinity from 1916 until 1943.
She was born Effie Oakland on Jan. 22, 1882, in Wisconsin. She moved with her parents, August and Christina Nelson Oakland, to Spokane in 1890.
She attended the old South Side high school, now Lewis and Clark high school.
On Dec. 27, 1905, she was married. She and Mr. Anderson settled on a homestead 20 miles north of Coulee City. They moved to Cheney in 1913, and to Ralston in 1916. After retiring in 1943, the couple moved to the Spokane valley where she lived until her last illness.
Five children survive, Mrs. Mildred Evans of Ralston, Mrs. Glenys Burquist of Spokane, Wayne Anderson and Clifford Anderson of Ritzville; and Lawrence Anderson of Los Angeles, Calif.
Three brothers and one sister survive. They are Walter Oakland of Bainbridge Island, Sydney Oakland of Lewiston, Ida., Harold Oakland of Spokane; and Maud Jordan of Lake Tahoe, Calif.
She was preceded in death by a son Kenneth Ward who died in infancy, and by her husband who died in 1957.
She was a member of the Veradale Community Congregational church, and a charter member of the Ralston Grange.
Pallbearers were all nephews, Jack Jordan, Ted Oakland, Harold Schwerin, Allan Schwerin, George Shaw and Arnold Evans, Jr.
[Ritzville Journal, July 2, 1964]
Mrs. Effie E. Anderson of Dishman died here last Saturday at the age of 82 years.
She suffered a stroke about two months ago. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Olaf Stoeve at the Thornhill Valley funeral home in Spokane Tuesday. Burial was in the Pines cemetery, Opportunity.
With her husband, the late E. G. (Ted) Anderson, she lived on a farm in the Ralston vicinity from 1916 until 1943.
She was born Effie Oakland on Jan. 22, 1882, in Wisconsin. She moved with her parents, August and Christina Nelson Oakland, to Spokane in 1890.
She attended the old South Side high school, now Lewis and Clark high school.
On Dec. 27, 1905, she was married. She and Mr. Anderson settled on a homestead 20 miles north of Coulee City. They moved to Cheney in 1913, and to Ralston in 1916. After retiring in 1943, the couple moved to the Spokane valley where she lived until her last illness.
Five children survive, Mrs. Mildred Evans of Ralston, Mrs. Glenys Burquist of Spokane, Wayne Anderson and Clifford Anderson of Ritzville; and Lawrence Anderson of Los Angeles, Calif.
Three brothers and one sister survive. They are Walter Oakland of Bainbridge Island, Sydney Oakland of Lewiston, Ida., Harold Oakland of Spokane; and Maud Jordan of Lake Tahoe, Calif.
She was preceded in death by a son Kenneth Ward who died in infancy, and by her husband who died in 1957.
She was a member of the Veradale Community Congregational church, and a charter member of the Ralston Grange.
Pallbearers were all nephews, Jack Jordan, Ted Oakland, Harold Schwerin, Allan Schwerin, George Shaw and Arnold Evans, Jr.
[Ritzville Journal, July 2, 1964]
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