Edna Ardelle Anderson passed peacefully October 20, 2021 in Edmonds, Washington, two months after suffering a stroke. She lived in the Maplewood Manor condominium complex in Edmonds and her final days were in Olympic View Senior Care in Edmonds.
Born in Goshen, Oregon, March 21, 1926, Ardelle moved with her family to Tonasket, Washington in 1929. A gifted student, she graduated a semester early from Tonasket High School and in January 1944 moved to Seattle to live with her sister Dorothy. In June she returned to graduate and give the Salutatorian address at Tonasket high school. In Seattle she worked for Boeing Aircraft in the war effort until conflicts with her freshman U of W classes led her to work at the popular Johnny O'Brian's Drive-In Hamburger near University Bridge.
In 1946 she went on a double date with Paul Harris and his girlfriend and met the man she would marry, Edward Wilkinson. They were married in 1947 and soon had three children, Ronald (1949), Bonnie (1951) and Betty (1954) living with them at their house in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood. They moved to Queen Anne where the children attended North Queen Anne elementary while Ed worked as a fire fighter with the Seattle Fire Department and built two houses, a duplex and a fourplex on Queen Anne Hill.
The next move to the Fremont area was a dream come true to a new house on Greenwood. The dream soon turned to ashes as Ed died suddenly in May of 1960. Ardelle met Verne Anderson, a fellow bridge enthusiast and the two were married in December of that year. Ardelle and her three children joined Verne and his two children Michael and Laurel in their house in Magnolia where the kids would attend Briarcliff Elementary, Catherine Blaine Jr. High and Queen Anne High schools.
Soon after that twins Richard and Robert were born making a family of nine in a house with a single bathroom bursting at the seams. Verne and Ardelle played competitive bridge nationally, both winning the titles of Life Master from the American Contract Bridge League in 1970.
Verne, an accountant, taught Mom the ropes and Mom did accounting work for several Seattle firms. In 1989 Verne passed away and Ardelle moved into the Overlook apartments in Magnolia and then to Maplewood Manor condominium in Edmonds where she played competitive duplicate bridge at the Edmonds and Lynnwood Senior Centers. Laurel and Robert and their families lived in the area already and were eventually joined by Ron while the other siblings lived out of state.
In Edmonds she became an accomplished quilt maker while continuing her redoubtable record of winning local bridge tournaments. Ardelle traveled extensively in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia. She was well known to Maplewood Manor residents and lived there independently for two decades. She is survived by six of her seven children, nineteen grand children and twenty-five great grand children and her beloved brother and sister, Gene Moon and Clara Sias.
She will be dearly missed.
A memorial service for Ardelle will be held Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM at Evergreen Funeral Home and Cemetery, 4504 Broadway, Everett, WA 98203, followed by a reception.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Evergreen-FH.com for the Anderson family.
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