Alta resident Edward Skoog Anderson, 76, dies; funeral Jan. 31

Edward "Skoog" Anderson, age 76 and a resident of Alta, Iowa, died on January 23, 2026, at St. Luke’s Lutheran Home in Spencer, according to Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home. The funeral home lists his birth date as November 11, 1949, and confirms arrangements through its Storm Lake office.

Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Saturday, January 31, 2026, at Summit Evangelical Free Church in Alta, with burial to follow in Elk Township Cemetery, the public obituary notice and funeral-home listing show. The notices do not provide a complete visitation schedule; the publicly available text is truncated where visitation would be listed, and the funeral home has not published further ceremony details in the materials provided.

Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home’s Life Tributes page includes the announcement: “Edward ‘Skoog’ Anderson, age 76, of Alta, Iowa, passed away on January 23, 2026, at St. Luke’s Lutheran Home in Spencer, Iowa.” The family created the Life Tributes page “to make it easy to share your memories,” and the site encourages neighbors and friends to “Share a Memory Below” and notes that “A comforting word from you means a lot.” Legacy.com, which mirrors the funeral-home posting, shows zero guestbook entries as of the snapshot of the listings and invites visitors to “Be the first to post a memory or condolences.”

Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home is handling arrangements from its Storm Lake office at 1615 W Milwaukee Ave, Storm Lake, IA 50588. The funeral-home and mirror pages also list options for sending flowers and making memorial donations, and suggest planting trees in memory through the site’s sympathy store; specific charities or funds were not named in the provided notices.

The published materials do not include customary obituary details such as survivors, a biographical narrative, cause of death, officiant or pallbearers, or information about any post-service reception. Reporters and members of the public seeking confirmation of those items, or wishing to offer condolences in person, should contact Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home for the family’s preferred instructions and any updates to the service schedule.

For Alta and Buena Vista County neighbors, the service on January 31 provides a local opportunity to acknowledge a longtime resident and support his family. Local churches and civic groups that kept ties to Mr. Anderson may expect to hear from family or the funeral home about additional memorial arrangements. Residents who cannot attend may use the funeral-home Life Tributes page or the guestbook to share memories and condolences until the family provides further details.