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James Preston Anderson

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James Preston Anderson Veteran

Birth
Evening Shade, Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA
Death
16 Aug 2008 (aged 88)
Temple, Bell County, Texas, USA
Burial
Davilla, Milam County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Mr. James P. Anderson, 88, of Temple, died Saturday, August 16, 2008, at a Temple nursing home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Scanio Harper Funeral Home with Chaplain Ralph McCulloh officiating. Burial will be in Davilla Cemetery with Air Force honors.

James was born in Evening Shade, Ark., to the late Edward Anderson and Ethel Marie Brown Anderson. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and then the U.S. Air Force. He retired from the Air Force and then worked for the Texas Employment Commission and also worked in sales. He moved to Davilla about 30 years ago after having lived in west Texas and San Antonio. He had been a member of First Presbyterian Church in Temple and the National Rifle Association. On Feb. 14, 1981, he married Freida Gilleland.

He was preceded in death by his wife, on May 12, 2008.

Survivors include his daughters: Mary Anderson and Debbie Jones, both of Robinson, and Andrea Carter, of Waco; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Richard Anderson, of Davilla, and Gilbert Anderson, of Irving; sisters: Dawn Wagner, of Bryan, Audrey Guyellerscog, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and June Horne, of Newport, Arkansas; other relatives and many friends.

Waco Tribune-Herald: 8/19/2008
Mr. James P. Anderson, 88, of Temple, died Saturday, August 16, 2008, at a Temple nursing home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Scanio Harper Funeral Home with Chaplain Ralph McCulloh officiating. Burial will be in Davilla Cemetery with Air Force honors.

James was born in Evening Shade, Ark., to the late Edward Anderson and Ethel Marie Brown Anderson. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and then the U.S. Air Force. He retired from the Air Force and then worked for the Texas Employment Commission and also worked in sales. He moved to Davilla about 30 years ago after having lived in west Texas and San Antonio. He had been a member of First Presbyterian Church in Temple and the National Rifle Association. On Feb. 14, 1981, he married Freida Gilleland.

He was preceded in death by his wife, on May 12, 2008.

Survivors include his daughters: Mary Anderson and Debbie Jones, both of Robinson, and Andrea Carter, of Waco; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Richard Anderson, of Davilla, and Gilbert Anderson, of Irving; sisters: Dawn Wagner, of Bryan, Audrey Guyellerscog, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and June Horne, of Newport, Arkansas; other relatives and many friends.

Waco Tribune-Herald: 8/19/2008


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