April 28,1920-Jan. 26.2003
TRACY — Services for Anne Algyer, 82, of Tracy will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Tracy Lutheran Church. Interment will be in the Tracy City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy. Visitation will continue Friday at the church one hour prior to services.
She died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at the Prairie View Health Care Center in Tracy. Anne Loraine Tarpey Algyer was born April 28, 1920, in the New York, N.Y., area to John and Anna (Keane) Tarpey. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended the New York Public School system. After her graduation she attended Bankers and Merchants School for a year and New York University also for one year. Anne grew up together along with her sister, Frances, the first half of her life in the New York City and Long Island, N.Y., area. On June 15, 1944, Anne and Harold Algyer were married in Palm Beach, Fla. They made their home in the New York City area after his discharge from military service. They moved to Minnesota in the summer of 1972, where she and her husband Hal were part of the Tracy, Marshall, Southwest State University and Lake Shetek communities. After a short time living in Tracy, they moved to Marshall until 1993 when Anne moved back to Tracy into O'Brien Court Apartments. Anne was a woman ahead of her time. She was a wife, mother, and career woman at a time when there were no professional positions for women. Her professional life spanned from being a radio actress and hotel manager in Manhattan, N.Y., to working during the Second World War managing the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island's bookstore. She also worked on the Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council and as an administrative assistant at the Southwest State University school library. She enjoyed many civic and church activities. She was a founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Levittown, N.Y., and served on the church board of deacons at St. Francis Church, St James Church in Marshall, and Tracy Lutheran Church in Tracy. Her theater involvement has included numerous community and university productions as a character actor in radio (days in New York to the bad lady in SSU's production of Guys and Dolls to Mrs. Paru in the Tracy Community Theater's production of The Music Man. Anne loved to read and while at SSU she recorded books for the Mind. She read for groups at the Marshall schools, Tracy Public Library and Prairie View Health Care Center.
Anne is survived by a daughter, Anne (and Frank) Franzo of Hawley, Pa.; two sons, David (and Dorothy) of Tracy and Harold (and Lori) of Prior Lake; seven grandchildren, Nanci, Frank, Jason, Jonathan, Patrick, Jaci, and Lauren; a sister, Frances Buckland of Flushing, N.Y.; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hal; and an infant sister.
--Marshall Independent
January 30, 2003
TRACY — Services for Anne Algyer, 82, of Tracy will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Tracy Lutheran Church. Interment will be in the Tracy City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy. Visitation will continue Friday at the church one hour prior to services.
She died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at the Prairie View Health Care Center in Tracy. Anne Loraine Tarpey Algyer was born April 28, 1920, in the New York, N.Y., area to John and Anna (Keane) Tarpey. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended the New York Public School system. After her graduation she attended Bankers and Merchants School for a year and New York University also for one year. Anne grew up together along with her sister, Frances, the first half of her life in the New York City and Long Island, N.Y., area. On June 15, 1944, Anne and Harold Algyer were married in Palm Beach, Fla. They made their home in the New York City area after his discharge from military service. They moved to Minnesota in the summer of 1972, where she and her husband Hal were part of the Tracy, Marshall, Southwest State University and Lake Shetek communities. After a short time living in Tracy, they moved to Marshall until 1993 when Anne moved back to Tracy into O'Brien Court Apartments. Anne was a woman ahead of her time. She was a wife, mother, and career woman at a time when there were no professional positions for women. Her professional life spanned from being a radio actress and hotel manager in Manhattan, N.Y., to working during the Second World War managing the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island's bookstore. She also worked on the Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council and as an administrative assistant at the Southwest State University school library. She enjoyed many civic and church activities. She was a founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Levittown, N.Y., and served on the church board of deacons at St. Francis Church, St James Church in Marshall, and Tracy Lutheran Church in Tracy. Her theater involvement has included numerous community and university productions as a character actor in radio (days in New York to the bad lady in SSU's production of Guys and Dolls to Mrs. Paru in the Tracy Community Theater's production of The Music Man. Anne loved to read and while at SSU she recorded books for the Mind. She read for groups at the Marshall schools, Tracy Public Library and Prairie View Health Care Center.
Anne is survived by a daughter, Anne (and Frank) Franzo of Hawley, Pa.; two sons, David (and Dorothy) of Tracy and Harold (and Lori) of Prior Lake; seven grandchildren, Nanci, Frank, Jason, Jonathan, Patrick, Jaci, and Lauren; a sister, Frances Buckland of Flushing, N.Y.; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hal; and an infant sister.
--Marshall Independent
January 30, 2003
April 28,1920-Jan. 26.2003
TRACY — Services for Anne Algyer, 82, of Tracy will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Tracy Lutheran Church. Interment will be in the Tracy City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy. Visitation will continue Friday at the church one hour prior to services.
She died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at the Prairie View Health Care Center in Tracy. Anne Loraine Tarpey Algyer was born April 28, 1920, in the New York, N.Y., area to John and Anna (Keane) Tarpey. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended the New York Public School system. After her graduation she attended Bankers and Merchants School for a year and New York University also for one year. Anne grew up together along with her sister, Frances, the first half of her life in the New York City and Long Island, N.Y., area. On June 15, 1944, Anne and Harold Algyer were married in Palm Beach, Fla. They made their home in the New York City area after his discharge from military service. They moved to Minnesota in the summer of 1972, where she and her husband Hal were part of the Tracy, Marshall, Southwest State University and Lake Shetek communities. After a short time living in Tracy, they moved to Marshall until 1993 when Anne moved back to Tracy into O'Brien Court Apartments. Anne was a woman ahead of her time. She was a wife, mother, and career woman at a time when there were no professional positions for women. Her professional life spanned from being a radio actress and hotel manager in Manhattan, N.Y., to working during the Second World War managing the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island's bookstore. She also worked on the Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council and as an administrative assistant at the Southwest State University school library. She enjoyed many civic and church activities. She was a founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Levittown, N.Y., and served on the church board of deacons at St. Francis Church, St James Church in Marshall, and Tracy Lutheran Church in Tracy. Her theater involvement has included numerous community and university productions as a character actor in radio (days in New York to the bad lady in SSU's production of Guys and Dolls to Mrs. Paru in the Tracy Community Theater's production of The Music Man. Anne loved to read and while at SSU she recorded books for the Mind. She read for groups at the Marshall schools, Tracy Public Library and Prairie View Health Care Center.
Anne is survived by a daughter, Anne (and Frank) Franzo of Hawley, Pa.; two sons, David (and Dorothy) of Tracy and Harold (and Lori) of Prior Lake; seven grandchildren, Nanci, Frank, Jason, Jonathan, Patrick, Jaci, and Lauren; a sister, Frances Buckland of Flushing, N.Y.; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hal; and an infant sister.
--Marshall Independent
January 30, 2003
TRACY — Services for Anne Algyer, 82, of Tracy will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Tracy Lutheran Church. Interment will be in the Tracy City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy. Visitation will continue Friday at the church one hour prior to services.
She died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at the Prairie View Health Care Center in Tracy. Anne Loraine Tarpey Algyer was born April 28, 1920, in the New York, N.Y., area to John and Anna (Keane) Tarpey. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended the New York Public School system. After her graduation she attended Bankers and Merchants School for a year and New York University also for one year. Anne grew up together along with her sister, Frances, the first half of her life in the New York City and Long Island, N.Y., area. On June 15, 1944, Anne and Harold Algyer were married in Palm Beach, Fla. They made their home in the New York City area after his discharge from military service. They moved to Minnesota in the summer of 1972, where she and her husband Hal were part of the Tracy, Marshall, Southwest State University and Lake Shetek communities. After a short time living in Tracy, they moved to Marshall until 1993 when Anne moved back to Tracy into O'Brien Court Apartments. Anne was a woman ahead of her time. She was a wife, mother, and career woman at a time when there were no professional positions for women. Her professional life spanned from being a radio actress and hotel manager in Manhattan, N.Y., to working during the Second World War managing the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island's bookstore. She also worked on the Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council and as an administrative assistant at the Southwest State University school library. She enjoyed many civic and church activities. She was a founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Levittown, N.Y., and served on the church board of deacons at St. Francis Church, St James Church in Marshall, and Tracy Lutheran Church in Tracy. Her theater involvement has included numerous community and university productions as a character actor in radio (days in New York to the bad lady in SSU's production of Guys and Dolls to Mrs. Paru in the Tracy Community Theater's production of The Music Man. Anne loved to read and while at SSU she recorded books for the Mind. She read for groups at the Marshall schools, Tracy Public Library and Prairie View Health Care Center.
Anne is survived by a daughter, Anne (and Frank) Franzo of Hawley, Pa.; two sons, David (and Dorothy) of Tracy and Harold (and Lori) of Prior Lake; seven grandchildren, Nanci, Frank, Jason, Jonathan, Patrick, Jaci, and Lauren; a sister, Frances Buckland of Flushing, N.Y.; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hal; and an infant sister.
--Marshall Independent
January 30, 2003
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