Obit: Anderson, Colleen Rae (1950 - 2011)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org  

Surnames: Anderson, Heck, Looker, Filla, Peterson, Markow, Huskelhus, Mouldon

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI) 08/24/2011

Anderson, Colleen Rae (21 FEB 1950 - 22 AUG 2011)

Colleen Rae Anderson, 61, of Withee, passed away Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield. 

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Withee. The Rev. Thomas Myhre will officiate. A visitation will be held from 11:30 a.m. until the time of service at the church in Withee. Burial will follow the service at Riverside Cemetery in the Town of Hixon. 

Colleen was born Feb. 21, 1950, in Marshfield, to L.G. and Leila Anderson of Loyal. She grew up and attended Loyal Public School. 

She married Terry E. Heck on Dec. 10, 1966, and they later divorced. She married Emil Looker in 1985. He passed away. Colleen was married on Feb. 13, 1988, to Ron Anderson. He passed away in 2009. 

Colleen worked at the Clark County Health Care Center for many years and when her second husband became ill and passed away she carried on with the video rental business and small grocery known as Colleen's Videos and Trading Post. Ron and Colleen ran this business until June of 1999. Colleen then worked at Food Pride and More Movies in Colby and then at Kramer's County Market until she became sick and was forced her to quit in 2004. 

Surviving Colleen are her children, Jim (Sue) Heck of Greenwood, Terry (Anne) Heck of Elkhon, Mike (Sue) Heck of Abbotsford, and Lorie (Renee) Filla of Neillsville; a step-daughter, Debbie Peterson of Unity; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

She is further survived by four sisters, Wendy (Larry) Markow of Janesville, Christine Huskelhus of Browntown, Wis., Letha Anderson of Loyal and Amy (Thomas) Mouldon of Kyle, Texas; her in-laws, Harvey and Velda Anderson of Withee, Janice and Allen Arndt of Withee, Bill and April Anderson of Withee; many cousins; and a very close friend, Diana (Dee) Witte of Owen who was like a sister and was there around the clock if needed. And last but not least, her two companions that she had to find homes for being unable to care for them any longer, her Chihuahua, Tinker, and cat, Blacky. They were very much missed in her life. Colleen loved playing cards and bingo, working in her flowers outside, most of all she loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Colleen was preceded in death by her husbands; parents, L.G. and Leila Anderson of Loyal; a granddaughter, Tapanga Sue Heck of Abbotsford; and one sister, Lola Lincoln of Pound, WI.

Maurina Schilling Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.