Dian Elizabeth Anderson passed peacefully in this city on January 20, 2024.
Dian was the first of seven children born to Elizabeth Ruth Smith-Carson and Gustave Klotz in San Francisco, California. She lived with her family in Oakland for several years before moving to Crescent City in 1953. She attended Crescent Elk and St. Joseph’s grammar schools and graduated from Del Norte High School in 1961.
On April 4, 1964, a week after Crescent City's infamous tidal wave, she married Robert Douglas Anderson. The couple's only daughter, Juelan Marie, who was born the following year, passed tragically in 2015 from glioblastoma.
Dian worked for many years as an insurance broker with Fraser - Yamor - Jacob.
She is survived by her husband, Robert "Bob" Douglas Anderson of Crescent City, brothers Karl Klotz and his wife Linda of Grants Pass, OR., Mark Klotz of Crescent City, CA, and sister Juel Klotz of Berkeley, CA. Dian leaves many loving nieces, nephews, and friends who will sadly miss her.
Dian is preceded in death by our brothers Paul, John and Rolf Klotz.
No funeral services are currently planned; however, a celebration of Dian’s life will take place in the Spring.