BORN TO BUDD ANDERSON AND LAURA DOILE. BUDD AT THE TIME HAD A "WILD WEST SHOW".
NORMAN 'LUKE' ANDERSON WAS BORN IN A CIRCUS WAGON OUTSIDE OF EMPORIA, KANSAS WHERE HIS GRANDPARENTS FARMED. HIS FATHER HAD A WIDE WEST SHOW AND LATER A CIRCUS. AFTER HIS PARENTS DIVORCED, HIS MOTHER OWNED A CIRCUS. NORMAN ORGANIZED, OWNED AND RAN THE "CLYDE BATTIE CIRCUS" UNTIL WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. HE JOINED THE SERVICE AND WAS A WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE CRACK SHOT. HE MARRIED FRANCES RAGSDALE WHO WAS FROM EMPORIA. THEY WERE PRECEIDED IN DEATH BY CLINTON.
THEY ADDOPTED TWO CHILDREN, SUSAN AND CLINTON. THEY WERE NATURAL BROTHER AND SISTER.
NORMAN AND FRANCES DETERMINED THAT THE CIRCUS LIFE WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND SOLD THE CIRCUS, BOUGHT RIVER FRONT PROPERTY IN BLYTHE, CALIFRONIA ON THE COLORADO RIVER. THEY RAN A STORE, CAMP GROUND AND LEASED BOATS. IT IS STILL CALLED THE 6TH AVE. PARK.
BANDWAGON
The Journal of the Circus Historical Society
January-February 1996
Artical on 'Luke' Anderson pages 20 thru 40. Luke was an icon in the circus world.
Norman was my 1st cousin
NORMAN 'LUKE' ANDERSON WAS BORN IN A CIRCUS WAGON OUTSIDE OF EMPORIA, KANSAS WHERE HIS GRANDPARENTS FARMED. HIS FATHER HAD A WIDE WEST SHOW AND LATER A CIRCUS. AFTER HIS PARENTS DIVORCED, HIS MOTHER OWNED A CIRCUS. NORMAN ORGANIZED, OWNED AND RAN THE "CLYDE BATTIE CIRCUS" UNTIL WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. HE JOINED THE SERVICE AND WAS A WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE CRACK SHOT. HE MARRIED FRANCES RAGSDALE WHO WAS FROM EMPORIA. THEY WERE PRECEIDED IN DEATH BY CLINTON.
THEY ADDOPTED TWO CHILDREN, SUSAN AND CLINTON. THEY WERE NATURAL BROTHER AND SISTER.
NORMAN AND FRANCES DETERMINED THAT THE CIRCUS LIFE WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND SOLD THE CIRCUS, BOUGHT RIVER FRONT PROPERTY IN BLYTHE, CALIFRONIA ON THE COLORADO RIVER. THEY RAN A STORE, CAMP GROUND AND LEASED BOATS. IT IS STILL CALLED THE 6TH AVE. PARK.
BANDWAGON
The Journal of the Circus Historical Society
January-February 1996
Artical on 'Luke' Anderson pages 20 thru 40. Luke was an icon in the circus world.
Norman was my 1st cousin
BORN TO BUDD ANDERSON AND LAURA DOILE. BUDD AT THE TIME HAD A "WILD WEST SHOW".
NORMAN 'LUKE' ANDERSON WAS BORN IN A CIRCUS WAGON OUTSIDE OF EMPORIA, KANSAS WHERE HIS GRANDPARENTS FARMED. HIS FATHER HAD A WIDE WEST SHOW AND LATER A CIRCUS. AFTER HIS PARENTS DIVORCED, HIS MOTHER OWNED A CIRCUS. NORMAN ORGANIZED, OWNED AND RAN THE "CLYDE BATTIE CIRCUS" UNTIL WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. HE JOINED THE SERVICE AND WAS A WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE CRACK SHOT. HE MARRIED FRANCES RAGSDALE WHO WAS FROM EMPORIA. THEY WERE PRECEIDED IN DEATH BY CLINTON.
THEY ADDOPTED TWO CHILDREN, SUSAN AND CLINTON. THEY WERE NATURAL BROTHER AND SISTER.
NORMAN AND FRANCES DETERMINED THAT THE CIRCUS LIFE WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND SOLD THE CIRCUS, BOUGHT RIVER FRONT PROPERTY IN BLYTHE, CALIFRONIA ON THE COLORADO RIVER. THEY RAN A STORE, CAMP GROUND AND LEASED BOATS. IT IS STILL CALLED THE 6TH AVE. PARK.
BANDWAGON
The Journal of the Circus Historical Society
January-February 1996
Artical on 'Luke' Anderson pages 20 thru 40. Luke was an icon in the circus world.
Norman was my 1st cousin
NORMAN 'LUKE' ANDERSON WAS BORN IN A CIRCUS WAGON OUTSIDE OF EMPORIA, KANSAS WHERE HIS GRANDPARENTS FARMED. HIS FATHER HAD A WIDE WEST SHOW AND LATER A CIRCUS. AFTER HIS PARENTS DIVORCED, HIS MOTHER OWNED A CIRCUS. NORMAN ORGANIZED, OWNED AND RAN THE "CLYDE BATTIE CIRCUS" UNTIL WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. HE JOINED THE SERVICE AND WAS A WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE CRACK SHOT. HE MARRIED FRANCES RAGSDALE WHO WAS FROM EMPORIA. THEY WERE PRECEIDED IN DEATH BY CLINTON.
THEY ADDOPTED TWO CHILDREN, SUSAN AND CLINTON. THEY WERE NATURAL BROTHER AND SISTER.
NORMAN AND FRANCES DETERMINED THAT THE CIRCUS LIFE WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND SOLD THE CIRCUS, BOUGHT RIVER FRONT PROPERTY IN BLYTHE, CALIFRONIA ON THE COLORADO RIVER. THEY RAN A STORE, CAMP GROUND AND LEASED BOATS. IT IS STILL CALLED THE 6TH AVE. PARK.
BANDWAGON
The Journal of the Circus Historical Society
January-February 1996
Artical on 'Luke' Anderson pages 20 thru 40. Luke was an icon in the circus world.
Norman was my 1st cousin
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