Patricia Anderson, 77, of Grinnell, Iowa and formerly of Mitchell, died Sunday November 20, 2005, at Friendship Manor in Grinnell. Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 22, at Graceland Cemetery in Mitchell with the Rev. Hank Kor, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Mitchell, officiating. There will be no visitation. Memorial contributions may be directed to the American Red Cross. Arrangements are under the driection of the Will Funeral Chapel. Pat was born in Mitchell, South Dakota on May 21, 1928, to George W. and Cora Westerberg Shipton. She attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell where she met her husband, Clark W. Anderson. They married on July 19, 1948, in Thermopolis, Wyoming. They had three children, Lynn Dee, Troy Michael and Cassandra Jane. They suffered the great loss of their two older children to Cystic Fibrosis in 1960 and 1961. After living in South Dakota and New Mexico, they finally settled in Ames, Iowa in the early 1960s. While in Ames, she was a homemaker and was a volunteer for numerous organizations including, MICA, the PTA, and American Red Cross. Her work with the Red Cross spanned from the 1960s through the 1990s, including serving on the South Dakota and Iowa board of directors. She was also a 50 year member of the Order of Eastern Star. She was employed in the toy department at Nims Sportsmans Store in Ames and later as a pharmacy technician at the Ames Wal-mart Store. She retired and moved to Grinnell in 1994, to be close to her family. Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Cassie and Mike Wherry of Grinnell; one grandson, Mitchell Wheery of Grinnell; and a cousin, Roger Westerberg of Faith, South Dakota. She was preceded in death by her parents and two children.