Andersen - Viola Prinzing
VIOLA PRINZING ANDERSEN
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 27 Sep 1965 p 2 typed by Walt W
Mrs. Viola E. Andersen, 70, a missionary 47 years, died Saturday afternoon in Culver Hospital, where she had been a patient three weeks. She had returned here two months ago and was living with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Bell, 707 W. Pike St. Mrs. Andersen was a native of Chicago, born July 30, 1895 to Fred and Emma Haunschild Prinzing. She married Anton C. Andersen in Chicago in 1916, and the following year they went to East Africa as missionaries. For 11 years they were in East Africa and following a furlough they returned to the Congo and Mrs. Andersen spent 34 years there. Mr. Andersen died and was buried there, Mrs. Andersen was twice evacuated due to uprisings in Africa and for the last two years was living with her son, Fred, in Americus, Samoa. She was a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and a member of Cicero Bible Church. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Charles Rogers of Terre Haute and Mrs. Angus Brower, a missionary in the Central African Republic; two sons, Rev. Elwood Andersen of Decatur, Ill., and Fred Andersen, a missionary in Americus, Samoa; four sisters, Mrs. William Bell and Mrs. Ethel Shermer of Crawfordsville and Mrs. Robert Shermer and Mrs. Sid Hutchings of Chicago; three brothers, Rev. Robert Prinzing of Lake Villa, Ill., Raymond Prinzing of St. Paul, George of Chicago, and 14 grandchildren. A brother, Fred, in 1964, and sister Mrs. Esther Hayes, in 1960, preceded Mrs. Andersen in death. Services are announced for 7:30 p.m. Monday at Bright Funeral Home, with Rev. Milo Riggs of the First Baptist Church officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home. After the rites here the body will be taken to the Hrejsa Funeral Home at Cicero, Ill. for services at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and burial in Montrose Cemetery in Chicago. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the Congo Gospel Mission in care of Rev. Fred Andersen for use in his work in Samoa.