Minot Daily News, Minot, North Dakota
Saturday, March 8, 1986

Clara Anderson (1879-1986)

AMBROSE - Clara Anderson, 106, oldest living resident of Divide County, died Thursday at a Crosby hospital. Her funeral will be Tuesday at 10:30 am. at Ambrose Lutheran Church, with burial in Ambrose Cemetery.

She was born Dec. 11, 1879, in Wabasha County, Minn., a daughter of Michel and Nicolina Oleson, and later moved with her family to Montevideo, Minn., where she was reared.

She married Ole Anderson at her parents' home at Montevideo Nov. 25, 1903. In 1907 they moved to Divide County near Ambrose. They lived and farmed there until moving to Ambrose in 1955. He died in December of that year. Since 1978, she had lived at the Good Samaritan Center in Crosby.

Survivors: daughters, Burnie Madsen, Westby, Mont., Nell Harris, Westpoint, Calif.; three granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; brother, Albert, Vergas, Minn. Visitation will be Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. and Monday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Stakston-Martin Funeral Home, Crosby.