Carol Anderson Obituary

Carol Lynn Anderson, daughter of Clarence and Daisy Farver, was born November 1, 1942 in Nora, Nebraska at the Farver farm. She departed this life on February 3, 2025 at CHI Health St. Francis Hospital in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Carol Lynn was baptized on May 6th, 1948 at the Methodist Church in Nelson.
She attended the Country School in Nora where she acquired her taste for riding horses with her older brother Jack Farver, and her older sister Janet Larson. She then attended Nelson High School where she stayed with her grandmother in town through the rest of her high school career.
During her time in high school she started to date Jerry Anderson who had just returned from Korea and was living in Oak.
They were married March 25th, 1962 in Nelson at the Methodist church. Not long after the marriage Carol purchased her first horse. This union was blessed with three children, daughter Gayle, son JD, and daughter Carrie. A second son Jamyn was added to the family by adoption when he was 3 years old.
Carol started working at the Nuckolls County Courthouse in Nelson at the welfare office. Carol moved to Deshler with Jerry when the mail route moved from Nelson to Deshler. A few years later she applied for a job as a clerk in the Deshler Post Office, working part time. She held a second job in the Thayer County Courthouse working with Paul Grupe for a few years until she started working full time at the Post Office in Deshler as a clerk. In the evenings she would drive one of the mail routes to Lincoln with her first two kids Gayle and JD riding along with her delivering the mail.
When the horse races started up at Thayer County Downs she worked as an exercise rider galloping horses and during race days was the Paddock Official verifying lip tattoos before the races. Carol also worked as a sub for the Postal Service in Nelson, Shickley, and Carleton. She later became Postmaster in Chester, working there until the Postmaster job in Deshler opened up. She worked as Postmaster in Deshler for 10 years. She took retirement from the Postal Service after 30 years of service and started to work more with her horses, living her dream of breeding, showing and racing them with much success. Carol was also a member of the National Pony Express Association Re-ride which she joined and rode with in 1962 and then again from 1990 to present day.
Carol enjoyed spending her time with her family riding, training and showing horses, as well as traveling to racetracks in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to watch her horses run. She also spent a lot of time with Jerry at local weddings giving rides to the newlyweds in their buggy pulled by their beloved driving horse Joe, and later Penny.
Later in life Carol spent time helping raise her grandkids, working with 4-H kids, attending school events, taking care of her horses and helping with Jerry's goats and chickens. Carol grew in life surviving tornadoes, fires and floods. She was very active in the church, helping with bible studies, Awana, Bible school and church lunches. Her positive contribution to other peoples' lives was immeasurable.
Carol was preceded in death by her parents Clarence and Daisy Farver, grandson baby boy Knigge and her son Jamyn Anderson.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband Jerry Anderson of Deshler, daughter Gayle and husband John Knigge of Deshler, son JD Anderson of Deshler, daughter Carrie Anderson-Grimes of Deshler and daughter-in-law Alissa Anderson of Lincoln, grandchildren including Abigail and her husband Timothy Burnette of Canton, North Carolina, grandson Xander Anderson of Deshler, and Kaylan, Trevon and Jett Anderson of Lincoln, her sister Janet and husband Leonard Larson of Lincoln, brother Jack Farver of Hampton, Missouri, brother and sister in laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, many friends and all of her beloved animals.
Memorials are designated to the Family's Choice.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at the Hebron Bible Church, 145 South 4th Street, Hebron, with Pastor Jeff Friesen officiating. A Luncheon will follow the service at noon at the Thayer County Activity Center in Deshler. Everyone is invited.
Carol's service will be Livestreamed on the Hebron Bible Church's Facebook page and YouTube channel.
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