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Andersen's mother was devoted to church work and saw to it that the children were raised in the Lutheran church ; Elmer was confirmed at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Muskegon.

During the winter of 1925, when Elmer was fifteen, his mother contracted a cold that developed into pneumonia.

She died at home on March 3, 1925 with Elmer at her bedside.

Within a year, Andersen's father was gone as well, dying of a heart attack on a street in Chicago.