Mary was the only daughter of Sharon Butchee Stanford and Olive (Hare) Stanford.
Mrs. Anderson graduated from Camelback High School in 1972 and the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Antiquities in 1976. She met Arthur Alexander Anderson on a class trip to Orvieto and married him on August 7, 1980, at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, France.
Together with her mother and husband, she oversaw the preservation and restoration of the 1040 New Hampshire Street Old English Lutheran Church, adapted to professional office spaces. Along with this building, she successfully campaigned for her mother’s stone farmhouse to also be placed on the National Historic Register. Her own home was the converted civil war era carriage house that belonged to this farmhouse, which she restored while in college, and lovingly referred to as “the barn.” Indirectly through her husband, she was involved in many of the interior design decisions made in the restoration of the Castle Tea Room, and she was a quiet supporter of many of the conservation projects taken by the Lawrence Preservation Alliance.
She was a devoted mother, highly artistic and with exquisite aesthetic sensibility, very private, dignified, and self-effacing, but gracious and generous to all.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Olive and Sharon Stanford, and her husband, Arthur. Survivors include her two sons, John Clement Anderson, living in Rome, Italy, and Alexander Stanford Anderson, studying in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mrs. Anderson graduated from Camelback High School in 1972 and the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Antiquities in 1976. She met Arthur Alexander Anderson on a class trip to Orvieto and married him on August 7, 1980, at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, France.
Together with her mother and husband, she oversaw the preservation and restoration of the 1040 New Hampshire Street Old English Lutheran Church, adapted to professional office spaces. Along with this building, she successfully campaigned for her mother’s stone farmhouse to also be placed on the National Historic Register. Her own home was the converted civil war era carriage house that belonged to this farmhouse, which she restored while in college, and lovingly referred to as “the barn.” Indirectly through her husband, she was involved in many of the interior design decisions made in the restoration of the Castle Tea Room, and she was a quiet supporter of many of the conservation projects taken by the Lawrence Preservation Alliance.
She was a devoted mother, highly artistic and with exquisite aesthetic sensibility, very private, dignified, and self-effacing, but gracious and generous to all.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Olive and Sharon Stanford, and her husband, Arthur. Survivors include her two sons, John Clement Anderson, living in Rome, Italy, and Alexander Stanford Anderson, studying in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mary was the only daughter of Sharon Butchee Stanford and Olive (Hare) Stanford.
Mrs. Anderson graduated from Camelback High School in 1972 and the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Antiquities in 1976. She met Arthur Alexander Anderson on a class trip to Orvieto and married him on August 7, 1980, at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, France.
Together with her mother and husband, she oversaw the preservation and restoration of the 1040 New Hampshire Street Old English Lutheran Church, adapted to professional office spaces. Along with this building, she successfully campaigned for her mother’s stone farmhouse to also be placed on the National Historic Register. Her own home was the converted civil war era carriage house that belonged to this farmhouse, which she restored while in college, and lovingly referred to as “the barn.” Indirectly through her husband, she was involved in many of the interior design decisions made in the restoration of the Castle Tea Room, and she was a quiet supporter of many of the conservation projects taken by the Lawrence Preservation Alliance.
She was a devoted mother, highly artistic and with exquisite aesthetic sensibility, very private, dignified, and self-effacing, but gracious and generous to all.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Olive and Sharon Stanford, and her husband, Arthur. Survivors include her two sons, John Clement Anderson, living in Rome, Italy, and Alexander Stanford Anderson, studying in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mrs. Anderson graduated from Camelback High School in 1972 and the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Antiquities in 1976. She met Arthur Alexander Anderson on a class trip to Orvieto and married him on August 7, 1980, at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, France.
Together with her mother and husband, she oversaw the preservation and restoration of the 1040 New Hampshire Street Old English Lutheran Church, adapted to professional office spaces. Along with this building, she successfully campaigned for her mother’s stone farmhouse to also be placed on the National Historic Register. Her own home was the converted civil war era carriage house that belonged to this farmhouse, which she restored while in college, and lovingly referred to as “the barn.” Indirectly through her husband, she was involved in many of the interior design decisions made in the restoration of the Castle Tea Room, and she was a quiet supporter of many of the conservation projects taken by the Lawrence Preservation Alliance.
She was a devoted mother, highly artistic and with exquisite aesthetic sensibility, very private, dignified, and self-effacing, but gracious and generous to all.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Olive and Sharon Stanford, and her husband, Arthur. Survivors include her two sons, John Clement Anderson, living in Rome, Italy, and Alexander Stanford Anderson, studying in Glasgow, Scotland.
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