Marlys Jo Anne Dow Anderson’s mother, Lerona "Lil" Adell Oleen, is shown in the bottom row of the family photograph, flanked by her parents, Anna Adell "Della" Anderson and Gustav Per Oleen.  They are surrounded by Lil’s brothers and sisters. Jo Anne recounted that Gustav’s grandfather was Erick Andersson Ericsson. When Erick emigrated from Sweden and arrived in New York, he noticed a billboard for an Olean dairy and decided to change his surname from Ericsson to Oleen by adjusting the dairy’s name by one letter. 

Words can’t express my sadness, JoAnne was so Good, I’ll miss her for the rest of my Life…………..

Jim Fuller

... ( continued ....Mimi  was a care-giver  through her golden years, helping friends, especially her kind business partner, Perry, her close companion Jim Fuller and the family. She loved her brothers Ralph and Bob more than life; she doted on animals of all kinds and could never turn one away. She even left food the gophers who dug holes in her yard. She fed the birds every day, rain, or shine. She rescued countless dogs and cats.  Mimi helped many of our neighbors from south of our border by giving them neighbors from south of our border by giving them meaningful work and enabling them to have better lives.  
Her passions   also included, cooking, and sewing and anything about the ocean. We searched for model lighthouses wherever we went. She was an accomplished, astute self-educated businesswoman even before it was popular. 
Mimi spent more than half of her life near the sea. She would never admit it but I knew there were times when she missed her Minnesota lakes and forests. 
Mimi was more than a friend to me; she was like a sister  to me  and I will never forget her. 


Mimi

I met MarlysJo in 1968 when I was dating her brother Ralph. I fell in love with the whole family. We called her Mimi which was the name given to her by our niece Corinne as a toddler. Even then, Mimi was a tireless switchboard operator at “The Phone Company,” caregiver- of her wonderful mom, “Gramma Dow (Lil), her ailing dad, and the rest of us. Years later when Ralph and I parted, Mimi’s told me, “You’re family, no matter what happens.” 

This statuesque intelligent, beautiful, loving woman remained my friend for over 50 years. It was Mimi who co – signed a loan with me which enabled me to buy my first home as a single mom. She never forgot a birthday or Christmas for her nephews, Christopher Travis and Tim, her niece, Corinne, our sister-in-law, Doris or even me. She was generous with all of us, always there, in every way. I remember Travis telling me he was so bereft one night and he needed someone to talk with; he called her in the middle of the night. She was there. 
When we lived in Boston, Mimi would brave her deepest fears and climb on an airplane with Gramma to come and see us.  She did the same when we moved to San Francisco. When our beloved Gramma Dow ( Lil) passed,  Mimi was inconsolable but she forced herself out of bed, put her makeup on and let me drag her to the movies, museums, the park and across town to get fresh donuts! 
 We shared trips to Nova Scotia in a van with a toddler, adventures in Vermont and toted a terrible two Christopher, and wailing infant Travis on the Freedom Trail in Boston.  She desperately wanted to visit Ralph in Las Vegas but would only go in her RV. It took her awhile to work up to the trip and she insisted on buying me a chocolate malt at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner.  
When we came to visit in San Diego there was always key lime pie, Gramma’s butter cookies, a roast in the oven for Ralph, salmon for me, beds with fresh linens and tubes of toothpaste when we forgot.
Mimi continued her caregiving throughout  her life...

OBITUARIO

Jo Anne Anderson

2 diciembre, 1931 – 29 julio, 2023

Eternal Hills Mortuary & Crematory at Eternal Hills Memorial Park

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