Benjamin H. Anderson, 59, formerly of Media, died today in Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, from pneumonia. He entered the institution last September.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday, followed by burial in Haverford Meeting Burying Ground.
Mr. Anderson, born Nov. 6, 1891, at Haverford, was an army veteran of World War I. He was wounded and had been an invalid since.
Educated at Lower Merion High School and University of Pennsylvania, he had been freight manager at Wayne Junction of Reading Railroad before the war. Later he engaged in mushroom growing for five years. He was a son of the late B. Hayes and Mary L. Anderson, and a member of Haverford Friends Meeting.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; a son, Benjamin H. 3d, of Russellville, Chester County; a daughter, Hilda, a teacher at Nether Providence High School; a brother, Edward L. of Highland Park, and three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Hibberd, of Media; Mrs. Edwin Kessler, of Germantown, and Mrs. Ralph Mahan, of Nottingham.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday, followed by burial in Haverford Meeting Burying Ground.
Mr. Anderson, born Nov. 6, 1891, at Haverford, was an army veteran of World War I. He was wounded and had been an invalid since.
Educated at Lower Merion High School and University of Pennsylvania, he had been freight manager at Wayne Junction of Reading Railroad before the war. Later he engaged in mushroom growing for five years. He was a son of the late B. Hayes and Mary L. Anderson, and a member of Haverford Friends Meeting.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; a son, Benjamin H. 3d, of Russellville, Chester County; a daughter, Hilda, a teacher at Nether Providence High School; a brother, Edward L. of Highland Park, and three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Hibberd, of Media; Mrs. Edwin Kessler, of Germantown, and Mrs. Ralph Mahan, of Nottingham.
Benjamin H. Anderson, 59, formerly of Media, died today in Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, from pneumonia. He entered the institution last September.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday, followed by burial in Haverford Meeting Burying Ground.
Mr. Anderson, born Nov. 6, 1891, at Haverford, was an army veteran of World War I. He was wounded and had been an invalid since.
Educated at Lower Merion High School and University of Pennsylvania, he had been freight manager at Wayne Junction of Reading Railroad before the war. Later he engaged in mushroom growing for five years. He was a son of the late B. Hayes and Mary L. Anderson, and a member of Haverford Friends Meeting.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; a son, Benjamin H. 3d, of Russellville, Chester County; a daughter, Hilda, a teacher at Nether Providence High School; a brother, Edward L. of Highland Park, and three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Hibberd, of Media; Mrs. Edwin Kessler, of Germantown, and Mrs. Ralph Mahan, of Nottingham.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday, followed by burial in Haverford Meeting Burying Ground.
Mr. Anderson, born Nov. 6, 1891, at Haverford, was an army veteran of World War I. He was wounded and had been an invalid since.
Educated at Lower Merion High School and University of Pennsylvania, he had been freight manager at Wayne Junction of Reading Railroad before the war. Later he engaged in mushroom growing for five years. He was a son of the late B. Hayes and Mary L. Anderson, and a member of Haverford Friends Meeting.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; a son, Benjamin H. 3d, of Russellville, Chester County; a daughter, Hilda, a teacher at Nether Providence High School; a brother, Edward L. of Highland Park, and three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Hibberd, of Media; Mrs. Edwin Kessler, of Germantown, and Mrs. Ralph Mahan, of Nottingham.
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