IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Bessie S.
Erickson
August 10, 1916 – August 2, 2009
Obituary
Bessie Amelia Small Erickson was born 10 August 1916 in East Bucksport, Hancock, Maine. She passed away at her home in Archer Idaho on Sunday 2 August 2009. She was 92years 11months and 22days old.
Her siblings, and one grandson preceded her in death.
Her parents Howard Edwin Small and Janet Beatrice Giberson died in the 1918 flu epidemic and her grandparents, William and Maud Small, took the four orphans and raised them.
Her sweetheart, Norman B Erickson, and their six children survive her. Eric Edwin (Beverly) Erickson; Georgia Maria Erickson; Norman Small (Susan) Erickson; Tonya Jean (Gerard) Junkert; Victor Small (Mona) Erickson; Herman Small (Michelle) Erickson.
She never lost her New England accent, which endeared her to family and friends. She loved Archer and her neighbors and living in the West.
In 1939 she left Maine and traveled to Archer Idaho. She stayed with her recently married sister Laurel Hacking. When she went to church a young man named Norman saw her and nudged the fellow next to him in the choir and said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry." Thus East meets West and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on March 11, 1941. She retired in 1981 from Ricks College where she worked as a switchboard operator and in the David O McKay Library. She loved her jobs and everyone there.
She and her husband served an LDS mission to Johannesburg South Africa 1981-82. In their family they have been blessed with 26 members serving full-time missions and five members in the Armed Forces. They also served together for 20 years from 1984 to 2004 as Idaho Falls Temple workers. She was a Young Women Leader, Relief Society Leader, and Primary teacher, Dance Director, and Choir member and the ward librarian for twenty years.
She was always positive, happy and was adored by all her family. She was "Grammie" to 31 Grandchildren and 53 Great Grand Children.
Thursday night August 6th there will be a viewing at Archer Ward from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Funeral Service will be held at the Archer Ward Church House August 7th at 11:00 am with a viewing before from 9:30 am to 10:45 am. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.flammfh.com.
Her siblings, and one grandson preceded her in death.
Her parents Howard Edwin Small and Janet Beatrice Giberson died in the 1918 flu epidemic and her grandparents, William and Maud Small, took the four orphans and raised them.
Her sweetheart, Norman B Erickson, and their six children survive her. Eric Edwin (Beverly) Erickson; Georgia Maria Erickson; Norman Small (Susan) Erickson; Tonya Jean (Gerard) Junkert; Victor Small (Mona) Erickson; Herman Small (Michelle) Erickson.
She never lost her New England accent, which endeared her to family and friends. She loved Archer and her neighbors and living in the West.
In 1939 she left Maine and traveled to Archer Idaho. She stayed with her recently married sister Laurel Hacking. When she went to church a young man named Norman saw her and nudged the fellow next to him in the choir and said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry." Thus East meets West and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on March 11, 1941. She retired in 1981 from Ricks College where she worked as a switchboard operator and in the David O McKay Library. She loved her jobs and everyone there.
She and her husband served an LDS mission to Johannesburg South Africa 1981-82. In their family they have been blessed with 26 members serving full-time missions and five members in the Armed Forces. They also served together for 20 years from 1984 to 2004 as Idaho Falls Temple workers. She was a Young Women Leader, Relief Society Leader, and Primary teacher, Dance Director, and Choir member and the ward librarian for twenty years.
She was always positive, happy and was adored by all her family. She was "Grammie" to 31 Grandchildren and 53 Great Grand Children.
Thursday night August 6th there will be a viewing at Archer Ward from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Funeral Service will be held at the Archer Ward Church House August 7th at 11:00 am with a viewing before from 9:30 am to 10:45 am. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.flammfh.com.
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