James Ellwood Anderson
1914 - 1989 (75 years)
Generation: 1
1. James Ellwood Anderson was born on 20 Nov 1914 in Duluth, Minnesota; died on 30 Dec 1989 in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington. Notes:
James E. Anderson
Service for James E. Anderson former Washington State University retirement and insurance officer, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. James Episcopal Church in Pullman, where he was a member. Burial will follow at Pullman City Cemetery with Kimball Funeral Home in Pullman in charge.
Mr. Anderson, 75, died Saturday at the Pullman Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Born in Minnesota, he studied engineering and business administration at the University of Minnesota. He worked as a senior accountant in Minnesota and Alaska and then was business manager at the Farragut college at the Farragut Naval Station in Idaho from 1946 until coming to Pullman in 1949.
A 24-year WSU employee, Mr. Anderson started in administration as an internal auditor in 1949. He then managed the budget office and later the retirement and insurance office before retiring in 1973.
He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a former member of the Masonic Lodge and Pullman Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include his wife of nearly 53 years, Esther, at the home in Pullman; two sons, Kip Anderson of Seattle and Christopher Anderson of Atlanta, Ga.; one daughter, Penny Anderson of Stockton, Calif.; two brothers; one sister; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or St. James Episcopal Church in Pullman.
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington. Thursday, 4 January 1990.
Name:
son of Alfred L. Anderson and Emma Christina (Anderson) Anderson
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Block 5 AOUW, lot 28, grave 58James married Esther Bailey Hedges on 15 Mar 1937 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. Esther (daughter of Herbert Arlington Hedges, Sr and Lillian Lucille Bailey) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; died on 31 Mar 2007 in Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]