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Alice Victoria <I>Larsen</I> Andersen

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Alice Victoria Larsen Andersen

Birth
Albert Lea, Freeborn County, Minnesota, USA
Death
15 Aug 1989 (aged 96)
Freeborn County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Clarks Grove, Freeborn County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Aunt Alice ("Little Alice" as she was called by many) was left a widow at 34 after nine years of marriage. Her husband, Irvin, was a carpenter, and he fell to his death from a nearly completed grain elevator near Mobridge, South Dakota, on Aug 18, 1927. An early frost ruptured the scaffolding on which he and another carpenter were working. Both were killed almost instantly. After the accident, Alice and Shirley moved from their home in St. Paul to Clarks Grove, where she opened her home to boarders and roomers (teachers and a store clerk) until Shirley graduated from high school. They then moved to Albert Lea where she was employed as a cook & baker in the Albert Lea High School cafeteria until mandatory retirement at 65. "Neenie" was a great cook and baker, as her family and friends can tell you. In 1977 she moved from an apartment she had lived in in downtown Albert Lea for over 30 years to Shady Oaks, a high rise a partment building for the elderly, where she resides at present, the last surviving member of the 13 children of Lars and Mary Larsen.
Note: Digging for information for a family history like this, one finds many things. Only at this time did we discover that my father's first name was Charley, middle name Irwin. Not even did my mom know it, but the information was included in the obituary of Grandfather Andersen and substantiated by birth certificate in Freeborn County Courthouse, June 1982!
----- Shirley Chase
Aunt Alice ("Little Alice" as she was called by many) was left a widow at 34 after nine years of marriage. Her husband, Irvin, was a carpenter, and he fell to his death from a nearly completed grain elevator near Mobridge, South Dakota, on Aug 18, 1927. An early frost ruptured the scaffolding on which he and another carpenter were working. Both were killed almost instantly. After the accident, Alice and Shirley moved from their home in St. Paul to Clarks Grove, where she opened her home to boarders and roomers (teachers and a store clerk) until Shirley graduated from high school. They then moved to Albert Lea where she was employed as a cook & baker in the Albert Lea High School cafeteria until mandatory retirement at 65. "Neenie" was a great cook and baker, as her family and friends can tell you. In 1977 she moved from an apartment she had lived in in downtown Albert Lea for over 30 years to Shady Oaks, a high rise a partment building for the elderly, where she resides at present, the last surviving member of the 13 children of Lars and Mary Larsen.
Note: Digging for information for a family history like this, one finds many things. Only at this time did we discover that my father's first name was Charley, middle name Irwin. Not even did my mom know it, but the information was included in the obituary of Grandfather Andersen and substantiated by birth certificate in Freeborn County Courthouse, June 1982!
----- Shirley Chase

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