Tamara Lynn Anderson was born in Oceanside, California on Aug. 24, 1963. She passed away peacefully at Our Lady of Peace Hospice House, Saint Paul, Minnesota, March 8, 2022. She fought a rare and aggressive cancer for three years all while working and maintaining her positive attitude.
When Tami was six the family moved to Silverton.. She attended all the Silverton grade schools and graduated from Silverton High School in 1981.
She then attended Chemeteka Community College, eventually moving to Saint Paul, Minnesota where in 1987 she graduated from Minneapolis Institute of Medical and Dental Careers.
Soon after she started working at Rainbow Foods in the bakery. She loved decorating cakes. When she passed away, illness had forced her retirement from the bakery at Cub Foods in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
Tami was passionate about many things. She loved music and attending live concerts, her work in the bakery, decorating classes and traveling to attend and enter cake shows. She was a proud mother, a loving daughter, a loyal sister and a great friend.
Tami is survived by her sons, Jeffrey and Randolph of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her parents, Richard and Arlene Anderson, and sister Kristal Waters, all of McKinleyville, California, and her niece Bridget Fenner of Everett, Washington. She was preceded in death by her sister, Michelle Anderson in March 2020 and by her brother, Rick Anderson, in October 2020.
A celebration of her life was held in May in Minneapolis.
