Anderson, Nina Ellen

Collection — Container: Pastor 2

Identifier: KUMA-02-659

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Folder 1. Newspaper clipping, obituary (2003), unknown newspaper. Newspaper clipping, obituary (March 2003), Kansas West Connection. Typewritten outline of education and appointments, headed "Women Pastors in the Church -- Nina E. Anderson." Postal card, handwritten, postmarked February 20, 1947, from Nina E. Anderson, Haddam, Kansas, to Rev. B. F. Young, Elkhart, Kansas, listing date of birth and schools attended; clipping pasted to front and hand-dated "7-28-54" reads: "Rev. Nina Anderson has an active adult class at Broughton. The members recently purchased 100 new hymnals for the church." Information card, date-stamped "Aug 1972," giving education and appointment information; attached is small color photograph of Rev. Anderson, undated. Timeline of appointments and salaries, 1948-1957. Letter, computer-printed, dated November 9, 1999, from Leda Bechtel, Archivist, to Kendra Irons, Ft. Worth, Texas; includes "I saw something somewhere that indicated that Nina Anderson had been the first woman to have been recognized in some way in the ministry." Letter, typewritten, dated December 9, 1966, from Rev. Anderson (Lenora, Kansas) to Dr. Charles Curtis (Hays, Kansas) regarding work group assignments in Mission program. Letter, typewritten, dated September 6, 1957, from Milton B. Holcomb to Board of Education, Methodist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, requesting information for Rev. Anderson on advanced studies.

Dates

Existence: 1914-2003

Creator

Anderson, Nina Ellen (Person)

Biographical or Historical Information

Nina Ellen Anderson was born in Osborne County, Kansas, on April 26, 1914, the eldest of the five children of Anders Wallace Anderson and Sarah Louella (Lulu) Collins Anderson. She grew up on a farm south of Osborne and graduated as class valedictorian from Osborne High School. She attended Friends University (Wichita) (1933-1934) and Kansas State College (Hays) and taught in the country schools of Osborne County for five and a half years before being called to the ministry. She then attended Friends Bible College, Haviland, Kansas (where she received Bible College Diploma for two years’ work) and Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois (where she received her B.A. in 1944). During the summers of 1949-1952 and 1957, she attended a special Methodist Seminary for pastors at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, Texas. Rev. Anderson was ordained deacon in 1950; elder in 1952; entered the Kansas West Conference on trial in 1956; and became a full member in 1958. Her appointments included the following: Haddam (1946-1948); Webber (1949-1952); Broughton (1953-1955); Jamestown-Highland (1956-1958); Hunter (1959-1961); Haviland (1962-1963); Delphos-Lamar (1964-1965); Lenora (Edmond EUB) (1966-1968); Barnard-Ashgrove (1969-1970); Offerle (1971- ); (Disability leave 1972); Detroit-Bethany (1973-1974); (disability leave 1975-1977); (leave of absence 1978- ); retired 1979 due to ill health. Rev. Anderson died at the Parkview Care Center in Osborne on February 26, 2003, at the age of 88. Her funeral took place at the Osborne UMC and she was buried in Osborne Cemetery. Her memoir is available in the Kansas West Annual Conference minutes (2003), page 450.

Note written by Sarah St. John

Extent

1.00 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains documents related to Rev. Nina E. Anderson, who served in the Kansas West conference from 1948 until her retirement in 1979.

Arrangement Note

The nine documents in the file are arranged as follows: Obituaries; education and appointment information; correspondence in reverse chronological order.

Other Descriptive Information

Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): 1945 - Haddam 1946 - Osborne 1948-49 - Haddam (other card suggests 1947-48)) 1950 - elected deacon as a local preacher 1950-53 - Webber (other card suggests 1949-52) 1952 - elected elder as a local preacher; approved supply pastor; in 4th year, Conference course of study 1954-56 - Broughton (other card suggests 1953-55) 1956 - on trial 1957-58 - Jamestown-Highland 1959-61 - Hunter 1962-63 - Haviland 1964-65 - Delphos-Lamar 1966-68 - Lenora 1969 - Bernard 1971 - Offerle 1972-73 disability (September 1, 1972-May 29, 1973) 1973-75 - Abilene 1976-77 - disability 1978 - leave of absence 1979 - retired attended Friends & K-State; A.B. Greenville College, Ill.