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Show Early Settler Feted On 83rd Birthday Mrs. Johanna P. Anderson, a resident of this city for more than half a century, was honored at a family gathering Sunday In honor of her eighty-third birthday anniversary. anni-versary. Mrs. Andersen was born in Dil-lederga, Dil-lederga, Sweden, April 23, 1850, a daughter of Lars and Bengta Pearson, who moved to Denmark in 1870. She emigrated to America, reaching Salt Lake in the faU of 1876. She was married in the L. D. S. endowment house in Salt Lake April 24, 1878, to C. W. Anderson, one of the oricrfnal 1859 settlers of Mt. Pleasant. He died February 9, 1921. She made her home here continuously con-tinuously since her marriage and has been active in L. D. S. church and civic activities, serving more than fifty years as head teacher in the North ward Relief society. Mrs. Anderson has always been a lover of nature and the outdoors and her garden is one of the most beautiful in this city. Despite her advanced years she still spends many hours each day during the spring and summer months working work-ing among her flowers. She has one son, Nelson W. Andersen, An-dersen, and three grandchildren, all of this city; a sister, Mrs. Annie An-nie Therkelsen, East Mill Creek, Salt Lake, and two brothers, Andrew An-drew Pearson, Darlington, S. C, and Niels Pearson, Boneta. |