Thelma I. Anderson

Thelma I. Anderson, age 96, of Cave Junction, died Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at Royale Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Center.

A graveside service will be at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at Cedaredge Cemetery in Cedaredge, Colorado. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Thelma was born September 22, 1917 in Battle Creek, Nebraska to George & Mettie Hawkins. She grew up and attended schools in Eckert, Colorado. In 1935 in Delta County, Colorado she married her childhood sweetheart, Newman Anderson. She attended beauty school and owned and operated her first beauty shop in Delta, Colorado. In 1941 she moved to Long Beach, California and later to Morgan Hill, California where she owned and operated her second beauty shop. After retirement she moved to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1979. In 2005 she moved to Cave Junction to be with family.

For many years she attended and taught Sunday school at Grace Baptist Church in Morgan Hill.

Her hobbies included reading and weekend sightseeing trips.

Survivors include two sons, Wesley Ray Anderson and Dennis B. Anderson and wife Lisa all of Sutter Creek, California; a daughter, Janna Perry and husband Gary of Cave Junction, Oregon; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Newman Anderson; her parents, George & Mettie Hawkins; a sister, Eula Horn; and a brother, Clarance Hawkins.