HAROLD “Yubby”
ANDERSON
Funeral services for
Harold W. “Yubby” Anderson, 89, of Aurelia, will be Wednesday, April 28,
2010, at 11:00 A.M., at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia,
with Pastor Missy Brown officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill
Cemetery, rural Aurelia. Visitation will be Tuesday from 3:30 P.M. to
5:30 P.M., with the family being present, at the Redig Funeral Home in
Aurelia. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established.
Yubby died Saturday,
April 24, 2010, at the Sunset Knoll Care and Rehab Center in Aurelia,
Iowa.
Harold William
Anderson was born July 22, 1920, the son of Adolph and Hazel (Perrin)
Anderson at Cherokee, Iowa. He graduated from the Aurelia High School in
1941. On December 6, 1942 he married Melva Marie Kas at the First United
Methodist Church in Aurelia. They farmed until his retirement in 1985,
and he had also driven Aurelia school bus for 19 years. Yubby was a
member of the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia. He enjoyed his
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, going fishing and the
times at the trailer at Spirit Lake, and farming and driving bus.
Preceding Yubby in
death were his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law; Harry and Nina
Anderson, Paul and Phyllis Anderson, Wilmer Anderson, Mardy and Mary
Anderson, and great-granddaughter Brittni
Beeson.
Survivors include his
wife Melva Anderson of Aurelia, three children; Sandy and her husband
Jerry Hodge of Spirit Lake, Tom and his wife Lynn Anderson of
Estherville, Paula Brede and special friend Rick Hurshman of Butler, MO.
Also surviving are six grandchildren; Krystal McBride, Stacy and wife
Shari Beeson, Steven and wife Sara Anderson, Eric and wife Rita
Anderson, Cindy and husband Jon Bethune, Michelle and husband Clint
Meyer, eight great-grandchildren, Savannah and Shelby McBride, Joe and
David Beeson, Will Anderson, Cora Anderson, Emily and Andrew Bethune,
two sisters-in-law, Eleanor Anderson and Gladys Kas, and many nieces and
nephews and other relatives and friends.
