Lola M. Anderson

Lola M. Anderson, 92, of Sioux City passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday, May 28^th, 2019 after living a long and happy life.

Memorial service will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, June 3^rd, 2019, at Morningside Lutheran Church. Rev. John Gerdts will officiate. Private graveside services will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00-8:00 P.M. Sunday with the family present starting at 5:00 P.M. and a prayer service at 7:00 P.M. at Meyer’s Brothers Morningside Chapel. 

Lola was born July 19^th, 1926, in her grandfather’s blacksmith shop in Macy, Nebraska; She was the daughter of John and Lillian (Olson) Tucker. Lola’s family came to Sioux City when she was a infant, and she attended Central High School. While working at the F.W. Woolworth Store in Sioux City she met her future husband and life long partner, Gene Anderson, Sr. Together they raised five children and were planning to celebrate their 70^th wedding anniversary on October 8^th of this year. From cruises to road trips in their motor home, Lola and Gene spent their free time exploring the world. After retiring, they spent time in Florida and California. Lola spent over twenty years volunteering in the Sioux City Community School lunch program. She had an infectious smile and ornery sense of humor. Above all, Lola cherished time with family; spending her summers at Lake Okoboji, with her fifteen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren, enjoying sunsets, surrounded by love ones in her happy place. Lola valued life’s simple pleasures, content in the world, as long as she was holding her husband’s hand.

Survivors include her husband Gene Anderson, Sr. of Sioux City; 4 daughters: Vickie Kirk, Beckie Fick (Ed “Mick”), Jamie Rager, Stacy Hildahl (Darin) all of Sioux City; a daughter-in-law: Anne Anderson of Sioux City; a sister: LaVonne “Toots” Pittman of Sioux City; a sister in law: Margaret Dirr of Madison, WI; a special “sister”: Betty Law of Lawton, IA; 15 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

Lola was preceded in death by her parents, a son Gene, Jr., a brother Jim Tucker and a son- in- law Dennis Kirk.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Food Bank of Siouxland in memory of Lola Anderson or the Ronald McDonald House.