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Anna Williams
STAPLES - Anna Williams, age 89, of Staples, passed away Saturday morning, Sept. 5, 2009, at the Lakewood Care Center in Staples.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Staples. Interment will be in Evergreen Hill Cemetery at Staples. Friends are invited to gather from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday at the Brenny Funeral Chapel of Staples and for one hour prior to services at the church on Wednesday. There will be a prayer service at 5:45 p.m. at the Funeral Home on Tuesday.
Anna Maria Williams was born on Jan. 15, 1920, in Benson, Minn., the daughter of Anton and Annie (Bunn) Lanske. She attended country school through the eighth grade. On Jan. 3, 1947, she was united in marriage to Charles Leslie Williams in Staples, Minn. To this union a son, Gary, was born. Anna and Charles were able to share 57 years of marriage together before he died on June 4, 2004. Anna was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother and enjoyed caring for any and all family members who needed help. Among the things she enjoyed were gardening, both flowers and vegetables, and sewing. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Staples.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Anton and Annie; her husband, Charles; and siblings Martha, Mary, Tony, August, Adolph, Julius, and Otto.
Anna will be dearly missed and lovingly remember by her son, Gary (Patti) Williams of Apple Valley, Minn.; her grandchildren Meghan Williams of Apple Valley and Tiffany (Michael) Flesness of Zimmerman, Minn.; and siblings Arthur Lanske of Staples, Agnes Kaber of Enderlin, N.D., Raymond Lanske of Puyallup, Wash., and Clara Coleman of Winter Park, Fla.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Brenny Funeral Chapel of Staples.
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