Ethel Helene Andersen

  Research Notes:

1. Source: Grue family records/papers - correspondence from Ethel in 2007, 2008

- provides some date information on her children and grandchildren


2. Fergus Falls Daily Journal, obit, 13 Dec 2009

- Ethel attended elementary school in Dalton, continuing her education in Fergus Falls, graduating in 1957.
- She worked in retail at Montgomery Ward and TGY Discount; Insurance at Enstad Mann Insurance and Security State Bank/Security Insurance; Economic Development at Thom Consultants, all in Fergus Falls and retired as an Administrative Coordinator at Otter Tail Power Company, in 2004, also in Fergus Falls.

- preceding death were her parents, sister Alvina Benson, brother Arthur Anderson, and Merium Moen

- surviving - husband, Pat; son Patrick (Lynette) of Nashville Tennesse, and daughter Ellen (Chris Loudon) of Duluth, MN

+++ death announcement, from Ellen Brown, Ethel's daughter; email 11 Dec 2009, 3:12 PM

sending this email to you on behalf of my mother, Ethel Brown. I wanted to let you know that after a long struggle with cancer, Ethel passed away peacefully at her home this afternoon with family at her side. Funeral arrangements are pending with Olson Funeral home in Fergus Falls, MN., and an obituary will be posted in the Fergus Fall Daily Journal--hopefully by Sunday.
Sorry to deliver this sad news to you, but forever grateful for her that she has finally free!
Sincerely, Ellen Brown, Ethel's Daughter


+++

-- see information under Louise, Ethel's mother -- it appears that Arthur Anderson and Alvina Benson would be step-siblings to Ethel (their father was Andrew Anderson and mother, his first wife); Merriam would be Ethel's half-brother ^2277,2498

Ethel married Theodore Richard Brown.