Eugene Anderson, son of the late G. A. Anderson, who was one of the pioneer residents of Carlos township and rural mail carrier for route three out of Alexandria, was born on December 11th in Carlos township. He was struck by a car on June 22 and passed away June 24 at one o'clock, at the age of 30 years and six months. Mr. Anderson attended the grade school in Carlos township and grew to manhood there, and was united in marriage to Hilda Affeldt on November 25, 1925. After their marriage they moved to a farm in LaGrand where they lived for several years when they moved to Kensington. This was their home until 1932 when they moved to their present location.
Besides the bereaved wife, three children are left to mourn a kind and loving father, Myron, age 5, Majel age two and a half and Gaylan Dean, three weeks; six sisters and three brothers also survive: Anna Anderson of Minneapolis; Emil Anderson of Spruce Hill; Carl T. Anderson of Ida township; Mrs. Jack Smith (Edith) of Parkers Prairie; Mrs. Sigrid Olson of Alexandria; Mrs. Norman Mathews (Alma) of Minneapolis; Mrs. Harry Bedman (Hilda) of Alexandria; Alfred Anderson of Miltona; Mrs. Walter Affeldt (Frances) of Ida township.
Funeral services were held on Friday, June 26 at 2:30 from the Anderson Funeral Home, Rev. O. O. Gustafson officiating. Interment took place in Kinkead cemetery.
(Park Region Echo, June 25, 1936, pg. 1)
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The third tragic auto accident within little more than a week on Alexandria city streets occurred Monday night when Eugene A. Anderson, aged 30 years, was struck at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth avenue by a car driven by Perle Vickerman and fatally injured. Mr. Anderson lived on Lake Ida, nine miles north of Alexandria and was the father of three small children.
The injured man was taken at once to St. Luke's Hospital, where it was thought that a broken leg was his only injury but it developed later that he had been internally injured, and he died about one o'clock on Wednesday morning.
Mr. Vickerman and Leonard Peterson were driving north on Broadway at about 9:30 o'clock Monday evening. The car was traveling at about 25 miles per hour. Mr. Anderson was crossing the intersection on foot. Mr. Vickerman stated after the accident that a car was approaching from the south with bright headlights and he did not see the man in the path of his car, and did not know that he had hit him. He felt a bump, but thought he had struck the stop signal set in the pavement at the intersection. Mr. Peterson, who was riding with him, told Mr. Vickerman that he had struck someone and the car was stopped as soon as possible. A coroner's inquest is being held today.
Eugene Anderson leaves a wife, formerly HIlda Affeldt, and three children, the youngest only three weeks old.
(Park Region Echo, 25 June 1936, pg. 3)