Maurice Anderson

Maurice Carlton Anderson was born in the Town 
of Mt. Morris, on Nov. 14, 1911 to Halbert 
Anderson and Louisa Charleson. He went to the 
one room  Thompson School on County G in the 
Town of Mt Morris. His schooling end after his 
sophomore year to work on the family farm. 
He worked at the Wild Rose creamery 
beginning in 1932. He served in World War II, 
enlisting in the Army on June 23, 1942. He 
served in the Pacific and was released Jan. 1, 
1946.  He returned to the Creamery in Wild 
Rose. He married Majorie Hesness who was a 
nurse a the Wild Rose Hospital. They married 
April 6, 1946 in Wautoma. Her parents were 
Ellef Hesness and Anne Theresa Lovdal. He 
became the buttermaker when the old one 
retired. They lived in the buttermaker's house 
at 220 Main Street across from where the 
creamery was. They moved to Wautoma in 
1951 when he went to work for the Waushara 
Highway Dept. Later they built a house on 
Cambridge street near the Catholic church. 
He was a good singer and sang with his 
brothers as the Anderson Quartet at many 
funeral. He retired in April 1975 from the 
Highway Dept. as a truck driver.
Marjorie died July 9, 1974.  Maury died 
December 1980. He attended Hope Lutheran 
Church in Wautoma.