- Grace Anderson
Funeral services for Grace E. (Smith) Anderson will be held at 10:00 AM Wednesday,
June 10. Pastor Dave Curtright will officiate at the service at Plentywood Lutheran
Church; interment will be in Plentywood Memorial Cemetery. She was stricken while
dining out with her family, and later died at Sheridan Memorial Hospital Thursday
evening, June 4 th; she was 92.
Grace is the daughter of A.T. and Kristine Olesen who came to Westby in 1913 from
Divide County North Dakota where they had homesteaded. Grace was born in
Westby on September 6, 1916. Since A. T. and Kristine had started the Daneville
Lutheran Church in their home, Grace's church family has always been an important
part of her life. Grace graduated from Westby High School in 1934 and then went to
work at the General Store in Westby and later for the Westby Post Office, the rationing
office in Plentywood and the Plentywood Post Office. On January 8, 1949 she married
Stanley Smith. She and Stan had the Smith Farm Supply store, selling Continental
Oil products, sporting goods, and art supplies. In 1969, Smith Farm Supply
sponsored the first annual art show in Plentywood.
Lutheran Hannah Circle. She was also a member of the Westby American Legion Auxiliary, Post # 229.
foot Airstream trailer behind. She later purchased a doublewide home in Apache Junction. She was well known in the court for her fresh
lemon pies, kringle and butterhorns.
In December 1980 Grace and Clarence Anderson were married. They enjoyed many winters in Arizona and traveling to visit friends and
family. They later made their home at the Pioneer Manor and Grace became known for her baking there also. Grace continued to live at
the Manor after Clarence's death until a stroke required her to live at Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home.
She liked to keep up on the news of the day and listen to her Plentywood Lutheran Church service on Sundays. Grace loved the
companionship of friends and was usually found playing cards or participating in all the other activities at the Nursing Home.
Grace is survived by her children Linda and Gary Bartnes, Plentywood and Alton and Sue Smith, Fort Peck, and the Anderson kids: Avis
Flowers, Don Anderson, Keith and Mary Anderson, and Myrna and Gene Short. She had numerous grandkids and great-grandkids and is
also survived by her extended family, Larry Bain and his daughter Shellee Roberts. Grace loved for people to stop in and visit so she
could show off all the latest pictures!
Grace is preceded in death by her parents, husbands Stanley and Clarence, a brother Alton, who was killed in WWII, sisters: May
Petersen, Mathea Hanson, Lenora Thon and two sisters who died in infancy, two sons-in-law: Jerry Flowers and John Powell, a
daughter-in-law Mae Anderson, an infant great granddaughter Shelby Ann, and extended family members Doreen and Kim Bain.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements.
| . . . . in Memory of . . . . |
| 1916 -2009 |
Remembering Grace