and they established a home near Dows. They had a son, Bernard in 1956, and a daughter, Lori in 1959.
The Andersons spent a year in Coos Bay, Oregon, before returning to rural Iowa, where Harry found work as a farm mechanic. Charlene cared for the house and the children, plated a large garden, and canned the harvest. They joined Renwick's St. Paul Lutheran Church, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school and served on many church committees. In 1969, she started work at Tiny's Café in Renwick, and cooked there for a number of years.
Her entire life, Charlene always wanted to take care of people, so when the Clarion Hospital offered her a job in Physical Therapy Department, she accepted. She started in 1972, and loved every minute of the work. In 1991, Harry has a stroke, and she retired from the hospital to take care of him. It wasn't long before she was not only caring for Harry in the big brick house in Renwick, she was taking care of the neighborhood children as well. Over the next eight years, Charlene was "Grandma" to 27 children.
After Harry's death in 1998, Charlene moved to Eagle Grove. She was soon demand as an in-home elder care provider, and she continued to find ways to care for people through her baking, sewing, and companion care until the day she went home to be with her Lord.
She will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Lori and husband Michael Grebner of Parkston, SD; daughter-in-law, Stacy Anderson of Council Bluffs; five grandchildren, Brandon Grebner, Jessica Grebner (Special friend Andra Sewell), Kelly Anderson, Kris Anderson, Kayla (Derek) Dilley; nine great-grandchildren, and sister, Elsie Rossiter of Arizona.
Charlene was preceded in death by her husband, son, Bernard Anderson, her parents, brothers, Ernest, Elmer, Charles, and Robert; and sisters, Mabel Doyen, Lilian DeYoung, Loretta Blomberg and Viola Lee.
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