Lila
Rose (Canaday) Masden
Lila Rose (Canaday) Masden was born June 28, 1916 in Chadron, Nebraska to Emma Eliza (Wood) Canaday and Prier Raymond Canaday. She died in the Grand Island Veteran’s Home on January 21 st, 2012 at the age of 95.
Services will be 10:30 am, February 2, at the All Faiths Chapel of
the Nebraska Veterans Home. Burial will follow in Nebraska Veterans Memorial
Cemetery.
Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at All Faiths Funeral Home.
Lila attended elementary school in Page, Nebraska and her high school years at Faith Home Bible School in Mitchell, South Dakota where she cared for the orphan boys and girls. She also met her future husband Kenneth Elbert Masden there.
On June 28, 1941 Kenneth and Lila were married at the Wesleyan church in Page, Nebraska. Shortly thereafter (February, 1942) Kenneth served in World War II leaving Lila alone. During that time (1943) Lila gave birth to her daughter Philisha (Pam) Ehrismann and they stayed in a small shack near Kenneth’s folks on the Missouri river bottom about 20 miles from Wagner, South Dakota. Lila said that this was one of the happiest times in her life.
In 1945 Kenneth returned from the military and he and Lila purchase a home in Avon, South Dakota. Their son, Kenneth Ellard Masden was born there in 1946. In 1948 Kenneth and his father exchanged homes and the family moved back to the river bottom near Wagner.
After being flooded out several years, they moved to a farm near Worthington, Minnesota and shortly thereafter moved on to Ocheyedan, Iowa where the children grew up and graduated from high school. During these years in addition to taking care of her children, she took care of Aunt Anna, Uncle Glenn Little, Thelma (Summers) Philippi and Lila’s mother Emma (Wood) Canaday.
In 1962, Kenneth found employment in Lincoln, Nebraska and Lila remained in Ocheyedan to allow Ellard to complete high school. In 1964 Lila joined Kenneth in Lincoln, Nebraska where they resided for 35 years. Here again, Lila cared for her mom Emma as well as Kenneth’s mom Alice Masden.
Upon retirement in 1998 Kenneth and Lila moved to Grand Island, Nebraska to be near their daughter Pam and Pam’s family.When their health started to fail, in November of 2003 they moved into the Grand Island Veteran’s home where they both received wonderful care during the last years of their lives.
Lila was preceded in death by her parents, six siblings and her husband
Kenneth Elbert Masden. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law
Philishia (Pam) and Don Ehrismann of Grand Island, NE, her son and daughter-in-law
Kenneth (Ellard) and Martha (Marty) Masden of Carnation, Washington,
her granddaughter Sheila Marie Ehrismann and Sheila’s husband Leslie
Morris as well as their children (Lila’s great grandchildren) Jason
Lucas, Andrew Morris, Ali Morris and Ariel Morris of Grand Island, Nebraska.