Marjorie April Anderson
April 3, 1946 ~ January 25, 2024
Marjorie A. Anderson, 77, Brandon, formerly Valley Springs, died Thursday, January 25, 2024, at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, following numerous health issues.
A Celebration of Life will be 2-4pm, Saturday, February 17, 2024, at Heartland Funeral Home. A follow-up will continue at the “Up The Damn Creek Bar” in Beaver Creek, MN, immediately following the Celebration at Heartland.
Marjorie April Anderson was born April 3, 1946, in Cody, WY, to Carmen and Clyde (Rice) McGary. When she was a teenager, she got her first job at A&W Root Beer, where she delivered meals to customers wearing roller skates. Then when she was in high school, the family moved to Englewood CO. It was there that she had her two daughters, Bonnie and Sherri. In 1974, Marge and her two daughters moved to Valley Springs, SD. Soon after getting to South Dakota, she got a job at Avera McKennan Hospital delivering hot packs to patients, while also working at the Valley Springs Corner Bar. She met Jeffrey Else. They were married and had a son, Tarl. In the early 1980s, Marge used some inheritance money to buy The Spur in Valley Springs.
On February 21, 1985, Marge was united in marriage to the love of her life, Arlo (Andy) Anderson. In the late 1980s, she and several women from the area put together a women’s group called the Honyackers. They strived to help anyone in the community that was in need. The Honyackers is where her famously known nickname, “Lip Dew” came from!! In the 1990s, she began working at Luverne Truck Equipment in Brandon, SD. She worked there for many years. However, she retired from Helping Hands in Brandon, where she was a CNA. After the passing of her husband, Andy, she sold their family home and moved to Helping Hands to live at the age of 74. One of her greatest enjoyments in life was having the grandkids over to watch movies and eat pizza and popcorn, while they were growing up. Another was spending time with great-grandkids, whenever they would visit.
Marjorie is survived by her daughters, Bonnie Burr, Luverne, MN, and Sherri Burr, Sioux Falls; and son, Tarl Else, Sioux Falls; step-sons, Scott and Mark Anderson; granddaughters, April (Shawn) Speck, Colorado Springs, CO, BreAnn (Bill) Chapin, Luverne, MN, Roschelle Fischer, Luverne, MN, and Cierra Jo, Yuba City, CA; and grandson’s, Colton Else, Sioux Falls, and Jordon Else, Northglenn, CO; and eight great-grandchildren.
Marjorie is preceded in death by her parents; son-in-law, Ron Matthaei; brothers, Jimmy, and Kenny; and her husband, Andy; and her grandson, Tom Fischer.
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