Obituary Posted: 10/20/04
Ellanora Frances (Beise) Anderson, 91, of Rush City, Minn., died Oct. 10, 2004, at the Hillcrest Health Care Center in Rush City.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 at the First Lutheran Church in Rush City with the Reverend Laurie OíShea officiating. A time of visitation and reviewal will precede the funeral from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Music will be provided by Camellia Taylor, Carleen Anderson, Rev. Laurie OíShea and organist Doris Swanson.
The cross bearer will be Ellanoraís great-granddaughter Elizabeth Bolejack. Honorary casket bearers are Mike Behrendt, Jeff Orn, and Brian Stottler. The active casket bearers will be Bronson Erickson, LeRoy Nelson, Jeff Nelson, Glenn Stream, Dan Larson, and Ray Kennen, with the interment in the First Lutheran Cemetery at Rush City. Arrangements are entrusted to the Funeral & Cremation Service of Rush City, Minnesota, Olson Chapel. Memorials are preferred to the First Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Rush City.
Ellanoraís parents were Frieda (Quandt) and Walter Beise. Both of German decent, they married in Stewartville, Minn., where Ellanora was born. They moved to the Rush City area and later settled on a farm near the lake, in Rush Point. Three more children were born to the Beise family.
Ellanora was baptized and confirmed at Calvary Lutheran Church, in Rush Point. She received her formal education at District No. 24 School. As a young woman, she helped with work on the family farm and later moved to Minneapolis where she was employed as a motherís helper for the Mach family.
In 1937, Ellanora married Lawrence Anderson and they made their home on the Anderson farm, living there for the next 28 years. Their three children were raised on the farm, and Ellanora was active with family, church, neighborhood, and school affairs. For many years she was a Sunday school teacher, and participated in Ladies Aid and the Missionary Society at First Lutheran Church in Rush City. She was an active 4-H leader and a Future Homemakers of America chapter parent.
When Ellanora and Lawrence retired from farming, they built a new home near Rush City where they lived for 30 years.
Ellanora enjoyed entertaining, sewing, crafts, baking, gardening, their grandchildren, playing cards and traveling. Those travels included visiting Tanzania twice, Sweden, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico. They spent many winters in Texas and traveled to many parts of the United States, including Alaska.
In 1993 Lawrence and Ellanora moved to Rush City where they enjoyed apartment living and daily visits to the Senior Center for meals and activities. In 1998 they moved to Hillcrest Health Care Center where Ellanora has continued to live since the time of Lawrenceís passing in March of 2000.
Ellanora is survived by her children: son, Eugene (Lora) Anderson, Roseville, Minn.; daughters: Ilene (Earl) Olson, Rush City, and Beverly (Carl) Anderson, Mora, Minn.; grandchildren: Jillene (Kevin) Bolejack, Salinas, Calif., Donna (Terry) Kay, Morrinsville, New Zealand, Zachary Anderson and Rick Anderson, both of Roseville, Minn.; great-grandchildren: Angela Kay, Stephen Kay, and Elizabeth Bolejack; sister: Lona Musil of Cambridge, sister-in-law Helen Beise of Braham; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Besides her husband Lawrence, Ellanora was preceded in death by her parents, Frieda and Walter Beise; grandson, Lincoln Anderson; sister, Marion Durner and brother, Bernhard Beise.
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