Aleda Ruth Andresen, 97, of Columbia passed away Monday, November 30, 2020 at Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Centralia. Visitation will be held 1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 7, 2020 at Memorial Funeral Home. In keeping with the guidelines put forth by the Boone County Heath Director all guests are required to wear a mask, to keep social distancing (six feet apart), cough into your sleeve and wash and sanitize your hands often. A graveside service will follow at 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Horeb Cemetery in Sturgeon.
Aleda was born on February 11, 1923 in Denison, Iowa, the daughter of Bernie John Johnson and Mable May Vanderwall. She graduated from Denison High School in 1942. During WWII, she worked at the Bomber Plant in Omaha, Nebraska with her best girlfriend. After a fire in the plant, she went to work in a factory that produced powdered eggs for the military. On December 19, 1945, in Vermillion, South Dakota she was united in marriage to Wilbur Andrew “Flip” Andresen, who preceded her in death.
After living in Denison for their early years they moved to Renick in 1953 then to Sturgeon before they settled into Columbia in 1965. In 2018 she made her home at Heritage Hall in Centralia. She was employed at University Hospital in the nursery and later at Boone Hospital in their kitchen serving meals to patients. In 1966 she started work at Exchange National Bank (that changed their name three more times before she retired to First National Bank and Trust, then to Landmark Bank) now Simmons Bank until she retired in 1987. She was an avid life-long reader.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and three siblings: Virgil Bernard Johnson, Dorothy R. Butler and Wilbur Donald Johnson.
Aleda is survived by her daughters: Linda Lee Henson of Centralia, Kathy Jean Andresen of Columbia, Deborah Ann Strodtman of Columbia, two grandchildren: Aleda Irene Jenkins of Florida, Richard Darnell Harrison of Columbia, six great grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren.
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