Hazel Anderson

Hazel Anderson, age 89, of Wheaton, Minnesota passed away Sunday, August 14, 2016 at Sanford Wheaton Hospital.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Wheaton with Rev. Dan Heath officiating. Organist will be LeAnn Bjornson with special music by Dennis Johnson.

Interment will be in Wildwood Cemetery, Wheaton. Pallbearers will be Hazel's grandchildren. Honorary Pallbearers will be Hazel's great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, American Legion Ladies Auxiliary and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Visitation will be Friday evening, August 19th from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. with a 6:00 p.m. Time of Sharing Service at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Visitation will continue Saturday afternoon at the church from 1:00 p.m. until service time.

Hazel Marion Beck was born October 29, 1926 in Steele County, ND to Evelyn (Olson) Beck and Lewis Beck. Growing up, she attended and was a member of the Goose River Lutheran Church of rural Hatton, ND where she was baptized and confirmed. She attended Country School for her early grades and later went to Hatton High School. Hazel was a very hard worker and during her school years she helped out cleaning homes and shopping for the elderly. When school ended, she went to Fargo, ND where she worked in a nursing home.

On January 1, 1946 Hazel married Kenneth D. Anderson at the minister's parsonage and because there was a bad snowstorm, they were not able to leave and spent the night at the parsonage. They moved to Bellville, IL while Hazel's husband served in the Air Force. Upon his discharge from the Air Force, they moved to Grand Forks, ND where he received training to work with the Red Owl Co. After completion of his training, they lived in Mayville, ND. They later moved to Morris, MN where he first worked in the Hart Store grocery store. He later worked in the Red Owl Store in Morris, MN until 1958 at which time he came to Wheaton to run the Red Owl Store in town. In 1959 they purchased the Red Owl Store and in 1960 they moved their family to Wheaton to live.

Hazel enjoyed being with her husband, Kenneth, and they enjoyed spending time with their family and they loved each and every one of them very passionately. They enjoyed fishing and made several trips into Canada, as well as camping. She enjoyed going golfing with her husband as well as doing babysitting for her favorite people in the world, her grandkids and great-grandkids. She was a skilled and talented self-taught seamstress, making her own patterns whenever she needed. She was a creative and talented Quilter making quilts for all her children, grandchildren and had plans on starting quilts for the great-grandchildren and also her new great-great-grandchildren; she enjoyed embroidering and made flour sack towel sets for all her granddaughters, great-granddaughters, and her two daughters; she worked on a lot of different crafts; she was a talented artist but never pursued painting like she wanted to. Hazel was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Order of the Eastern Star.

She was a long time member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church here in Wheaton and was a Sunday School teacher for many years as well as a teacher for VBS in Morris, MN and here in Wheaton; she sang in the church choirs as well. Hazel's faith in God was a very important part of her life and through this strong faith in God was able to instill the values and moralities in life to her children as they grew up. She had so much love for her family and husband, Kenneth, whom she has severely missed since his passing in 1996.

Hazel will be greatly missed by her family but we were ever so blessed to have her in our lives for the 89 years she was given on this earth.

Hazel was preceded in death by her husband of 50 ½ years; four brothers: Curtis, LeRoy, Robert and Charles; five sisters: Evangeline, Bernice, Ethel, Caroline and baby Evelyn; one grandson: Duane Anderson; one granddaughter: Mandi (Magnuson) Rikimoto; and two great grandsons: Trentin Rikimoto and Blaine Rikimoto.

Hazel is survived by her four children: Arvid (Patricia) of Wheaton; Dr. Harlan (Stefanie) of Willmar, MN; Maxine (Terry) Magnuson of New Effington, SD and Peggy (Dennis) Granberg of Wheaton; twelve grandchildren: Paula (Corey) Gale, Lisbon, ND; Linda (Steven) Emery, East Grand, Forks MN; Tara (Joel) Hoyme, Kindred, ND; Aaron (Katie) Anderson, Moorhead, MN; Jennifer (Hugh) Goodrich, Eau Claire, WI; Dr. Kristy (Dr. Paul) Lappinga, Fargo, ND; Laura Jill (Mike) Nygen, Willmar, MN; McQuian (Michelle) Magnuson, New Castle, WY; Travis (April) Magnuson, Boxelder, SD; Daryn Magnuson, New Effington, SD; Rebecca (Shane) Bladow, Hankinson, ND; and Stacy (Jeff) Flom, Fargo, ND; two brothers: Lester (Pearl) Beck, Bagley, MN and Carroll Beck, Grand Forks, ND; one sister: Gloria (Sherman) Thykeson, Portland, ND; twenty-two great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.