Betty Lucille (Onken) Anderson

Betty Anderson, of Montevideo, died on Monday, February 10, 2003 near her home at the age of 83.

Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 2:00 PM at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of Baxter with Rev. Roger K. Olness officiating.  Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church.  Anderson Funeral Home of Montevideo is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Betty Lucille (Onken) Anderson was born on July 10, 1919 in Sibley, IA to Jonas and Malinda (Klinkkammer) Onken.  They moved to the Marietta, MN area where she attended and graduated from Marietta High Schools.  She worked in the Payroll Department of General Electric for five years in Oakland, CA.  She received her B.S. degree at the University of Minnesota at Morris in Education.  She taught school for 28 years, teaching in rural schools, and in Boyd and Appleton, MN.  On June 14, 1947 she was united in marriage to Arvy Anderson at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Nassau, MN.  They lived on a farm for over 50 years until she moved into Montevideo in 2001 after his death.  She was a member of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of Baxter and was interested in music, gardening, crafts, traveling and homemaking.

She is survived by a daughter, Lynette Moll of New Orleans, LA; three sisters: Eva Weekley of Rapid City, SD, Margie Oswood of Big Stone City, SD, and Esther Boyce of IL; three brothers: Ray Onken of Marietta, MN, Bob Onken of Las Vegas, NV, and Don Onken of IL; as well as by a number of nieces and nephews.