Note - Auditorium at the Salem Public Library named after her. 
AFB #814 - Nora L. Anderson - b. Iowa, Dec. 1, 1880, d. Salem, Oregon, May 6, 1969, Lot #547, signed by Harvey H. Fox. 

Name of Father: Ole Anderson

Maiden Name of Mother: Olea Bergeson

Parents are buried in Riverview Cemetery in Portland

1880 IA CENSUS – Nora Anderson (b Feb 1880, Iowa) enumerated with parents Ole (55y, b Norway, occupation farmer) and Olea (43y, b Norway) and 4 siblings, Mary (18y, b Norway), Hartwick (15y, b Norway), Jennie (10y, b Norway) and Annie (6y, b Iowa)

1900 OR CENSUS – Nora L. Andersen (b Jan 1880, Iowa, occupation clerk) enumerated with parents Ole (b Feb 1825, Norway, married 36y, immigrated 1878, naturalized, occupation farmer) and Olive (b Oct 1835, Norway, immigrated 22y ago, mother of 8 children, 6 living at time of census)

MARRIAGE – William Everett Anderson & Nora L. Anderson md 3 June 1908, Marion co, Oregon

1910 OR CENSUS – Nora L. Anderson (30y, b Iowa, married 1y, no children) enumerated with husband Everett A. (30y, b Oregon, occupation clerk) and mother Olea (74y, b Norway, widowed, mother of 8 children, 5 living at time of census)

1920 OR CENSUS – Nora L. Anderson (38y, b Iowa) enumerated with husband Everett W. (38y, b Oregon, occupation merchant)

1930 OR CENSUS – Nora L. Anderson (48y, b Iowa, married at age 28y) enumerated with husband William E. (48y, b Oregon, married at age 28y, occupation merchant)

BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - Panegyric II, 1973):
HUMANITARIAN
Nora L. Anderson (1880 - 1969)
Nora Anderson had a hand in almost everything cultural that was started in Salem after 1900, and her deepest concern was with the welfare of children and their development. Before World War I she was involved with the Women's Club and their effort to found the city Library; she helped organize the Salem Garden Club; Mrs. Anderson was organizer and first president of the State Federation of Garden Clubs. She worked with the Salem General Hospital, the Unitarian Church, which she revived after World War II, and the Junior Symphony. Perhaps her most dramatic experience was with the Salem Art Center Association when its headquarters in Pringle Park was flooded out in 1942, and she was there to rescue its possessions. Then in 1947, she revived that organization as the Salem Art Association, and started in to raise funds to buy the original furnishings for the Bush House. 
Nora was born an Anderson and didn't change her name when she married William Everett Anderson. She believed the rich should give to the poor, and if a family needed shoes she would ask for the money; the forerunner of the Salem Assistance League. She also solicited funds for instruments for children who played in the Junior Symphony, never hesitating to ask anyone. 
The major honor in her life was the dedication of the first bench in Bush's Pasture Park, by the Salem Garden Club. On that spot she remembered her favorite patch of wild strawberries. Her generous bequests have been most appropriately used for the Nora Anderson Auditorium at the the Salem Public Library, the Women's Medical Surgery Department at the General unit of the Salem Hospital, and the Outside-In Clinic run by the First Unitarian Church of Portland.

OSBH DC (1969 Marion co) #7324 Nora L. Anderson, female, housewife, widowed, spouse William E. Anderson; b 12 Jan 1880 , Iowa; parents unknown; d 6 May 1969, Boyce Sanitarium, of 1577 Court St, Salem, age 89y; lived in town 77y; cremated Mt Crest Abbey; informant Harvey Fox, friend

NORA L. ANDERSON 
Late resident of 1577 Court St. NE, Salem, May 6, in a local nursing home. Survived by friend Harvey Fox, Salem. Services Friday, May 9 at 10:30 a.m. in the Virgil T. Golden Chapel, 605 Com'l. SE at Oak. Private interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Salem. Rev. Adolph Weidanz officiating.
[Unidentified newspaper clipping attached to authorization for burial] 

Nora L. Anderson, 89, 1577 Court St NE, died Tuesday at a nursing home. She is survived by a niece, Mrs Louis C. Wachsnuth, Portland. Services are pending at Virgil T. Golden mortuary.

Oregon Statesman, Wednesday, May 7, 1969, 26:4

Prominent Figure of City’s Past Dies

The death of Mrs Nora L. Anderson, 89, at a Salem nursing home Tuesday ended an important era of this community’s history. “A woman with an indomitable spirit,” was the way David Duniway, state archivist, described Mrs Anderson. “She occasionally stepped on people’s toes with a style.” Mrs Anderson was most remembered for her work in the Junior Symphony and Salem Art Association. “She took money from people and gave it to shoeless children,” recalled Mrs Walter Kirk, a former president of the Art Association. “She would tell rich people who had plenty to give some to poor people.” She used the money also to buy instruments for members of the Junior Symphony. In addition to these charities she prompted art and other sales to raise money to preserve the Bush House for a museum. In the early 1900s she organized a women’s effort to establish a city public library. When a Unitarian Church movement folded just before World War II, she revitalized it. Keeping alive the Salem Art Association, which she served as president, was a real challenge. The association met at the old high school and later at Pringle Park until the big flood of 1942. Mrs Anderson was there helping to haul out the art and other museum items during the flood. After the death of Mrs Sally Bush, Mrs Anderson was instrumental in raising money to buy all the Bush House furniture for a museum. Mrs Kirk said it was never reported but one of Mrs Anderson’s biggest “givers” was the late George Putnam, one-time publisher of the Capital Journal. She had ample opportunity to get acquainted with Putnam. Her husband, William Everett Anderson, operated Anderson’s Sporting Goods Store in the 100 block of Commercial Street SE in the early 1920s, near the headquarters of Putnam’s newspaper. Mrs Anderson had a fiery personality and did not hesitate to give someone who didn’t support her efforts a piece of her mind. She has no survivors except for the children she informally adopted and cared for during the years. Funeral services will be 10:30 am Friday at the Virgil T. Golden chapel with Rev Adolph Weidanz, pastor of the Unitarian Church, officiating. Duniway will give a eulogy. Burial will be private.

Oregon Statesman, Thursday, May 8, 1969, 13:1-2

Anderson 
Nora L. 
1880 - 1969 
(shares marker with William Everett)

LR 
LD
Pangyric II, 1973 
AFB #814 

OSBH DC (1969 Marion co) #7324

1880 IA CENSUS (Fayette co, Fairfield, ED 198, FA#215)

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Yew Park, ED 144, sheet 13B)

Oregon Marriage Index

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 222, sheet 1B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 343, sheet 13B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 55, sheet 8A)

Unidentified newspaper clipping attached to authorization for burial

OS, 7 May 1969, 26:4

OS, 8 May 1969, 13:1-2