Obit: Anderson, Clarence E. (1889 - 1963)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Anderson, Outcelt, Bitter, Shulta, Johnson, Kvanback

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08/08/1963

Anderson, Clarence E. (15 MAR 1889 - 26 JUL 1963)

Clarence E. Anderson, 74, died Friday morning, July 26, 1963, at Veteran’s Hospital at Ft. Snelling, Minneapolis, Minn.  He had been in ill health for some time.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 Monday, July 29 at the Zion Lutheran Church, Colby.  The Rev. L.A. Urman, Withee, officiated and burial was made in Colby Memorial Cemetery.  Military rites were held by the VFW.

Mr. Anderson was born March 15, 1889 in Eseline, S.D., and received his education in De Soto, Wis.  He was married to Esther Outcelt in 1921 at Genoa, Wis.  She died in 1958.  He lived in Idaho until the age of 20, when he moved to Iowa, where he worked on the railroad until his marriage.  After his marriage they moved to a farm near Withee (Clark Co., Wis.), and later to Colby.  On May 3, 1961 he married Adeline Bitter.  Since then he had resided in Abbotsford.

He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Colby, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 865, Abbotsford, and a veteran of World War I.

Mr. Anderson is survived by his wife; a son, Ray Anderson, Abbotsford, a daughter, Mrs. Leonard (Nora) Shulta, Schofield, two stepsons, John Bitter, stationed in Japan, Melvin Bitter, Cape Canaveral, Fla., two sisters, Mrs. Herman (Nora) Johnson, Belmond, Iowa, Mrs. Jake (Minnie) Kvanback, Minneapolis, Minn., two brothers, A.J. Anderson and Roy Anderson, Owen, and 12 grandchildren.