Wilma H. Anderson, 79

Wilma H. Anderson passed away peacefully in her sleep on Nov. 9, 2023. She was born in Alexandria, Scotland, on Aug. 6, 1944. She was predeceased by her parents, sister and husband, Alan Anderson. She is survived by her niece and nephew who reside in Scotland and by many friends in the Franklin area. She resided on Webster Lake with her beloved cat, Patches, for a number of years before residing at the Belknap County Nursing Home.

There will be no calling hours.

Donations in her memory may be directed to the Franklin Animal Shelter as she was an animal lover and supporter of the shelter.

As a remembrance, the following poem in her memory by Henry Van Dyke, called the "Parable of Immortality":

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, “There she goes!” Gone where? Gone from my sight . . . that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There she goes!” there are other eyes watching her coming. . . and other voices ready to take up the glad shout . . . “Here she comes!”