W. C. Anderson

04-1991

© Enid News and Eagle

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Alva – The funeral for W. C. "Bill" Anderson, 80, who died Sunday at the Alva Share Medical Center, will be at 2 PM today at Wharton Funeral Chapel. New Curtis Torrents, pastor of Believers Chapel at Gauge, will officiate. Burial will follow in Bethel Cemetery, North of Emma Rita.

He was born January 1, 1911, north of Emma Rita to Lewis Arnold and And I Lola Hunsicker Anderson and attended Pleasant Bill rural school, Emma Rita great school and graduated from Emma Rita High School in 1930. He helped his father farm and served four years in the U. S. Army Air Force during World War I I. He was stationed in England in communications. On October 19, 1946, he was married to Bernice Viola Beard by her uncle, J. B. Burket, at his home in Alva. They lived north of Emma Rita where they farmed until 1963 when they moved to Anthony, Kansas. He continued to farm and ran a Star Mail rural route, serving Byron, Emma Rita and Manchester in Oklahoma and Waldron, Anthony and Harper in Kansas. They moved to Alva on October 22, 1972. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Roger (Sharon) Miller of Alva and Mrs. Arlen (Carol) Barnes of Gauge; one sister, Jane Wakeman of Hartford, Connecticut; and four grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one sister and his infant twin brother.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Bethel Cemetery.

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