Funeral services for Alverda M. Anderson, 80, Silvis, are 10 AM Friday at Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline. Burial is in Beulah Cemetery, Orion, IL. Visitation is 4-7 PM Thursday at Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline. A memorial fund has been established. Mrs. Anderson died Monday, September 8, 2008 at Genesis Medical Center-Illini Campus, Silvis. Alverda was born December 22, 1927 in Rock Island, the daughter of Alvin and Edith (Parks) Wilson. She married Herbert Anderson in February of 1944 in Chicago, IL. Alverda had various jobs through the years which included a meat wrapper for National Grocery, had worked as a bookkeeper at Johnson Sheet Metal and Black Hawk College and finally as half owner of Herb's Donut Shop. Mrs. Anderson enjoyed knitting, painting and ballroom dancing. She loved to write and had recently begun writing her memoirs. Survivors include her husband of nearly 65 years, Herbert, daughter and son-in-law Judy and Jay VanPaemel, Fairfield Glade, TN, son and his fiancé, Herbert Anderson and Pam Hopkins, Moline, grandchildren Daren L VanPaemel, Michael J. VanPaemel, Dawn L. Schussler, Jeffrey M. Anderson, Jeremy S. Anderson, Justin L. Anderson, and Sue E. Mathis, twelve great grandchildren, brother and sister-in-law Alvin R and Emelyn Wilson Jr., Augusta, GA, sister Janice Halbinger, Mexico City, Mexico. She is preceded in death by her parents, sister Dottie Wilson and brothers Douglas Wilson and Dale Wilson