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08/16/2018 - Roy Phillip Anderson
Funeral service for Roy Phillip Anderson will be at 2:00 PM on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at the United Methodist Church in Gordon, NE.
Burial will be at 1:00 PM (CT) on Friday, August 17, 2018 at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell, NE.
A memorial has been established for the GordonSeniorCenter or the Gordon United Methodist Church, and donations may be sent in care of Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home, PO Box 366, Gordon, NE69343.
Roy was born on July 1, 1926 to Edgar P. and Dolly [Paul] Anderson at home on Brady Island, NE. He grew up on the farm with older sister Clara and younger brother and sister Lloyd and Hazel. He and Lloyd spent a lot of time fishing in the PlatteRiver and hunting ducks. He attended grade school on the island and went to high school in Maxwell NE, graduating in 1944.
He was in the U.S. Navy from October 1944 to July 1946. He went through the 1949 Nebraska Patrol Camp and was assigned to Scottsbluff, NE on May 1, 1950. He was a trooper in Kimball, NE before being transferred to Gordon, NE in October 1963. He and Keith Peterson were the first State Troopers to be stationed in SheridanCounty. He spent quite a bit of his patrol time in the White Clay area and made friends with the business owners and residents. He was working during the Wounded Knee Takeover by AIM in 1973, the marches on Gordon, and problems at Ft.Robinson. He retired from the Patrol on May 1, 1980. He then worked as a Custodian at the GordonGrade School for 5 years before retiring again.
He married Beverly Kuhrt in 1950. They had two children, Kathryn Maud and Timothy Lloyd. He married Mary Lou Hanson in 1964. He enjoyed hunting in the Pine Ridge area of SheridanCounty, fishing in the SandhillLakes and Rock hunting and Arrow Head hunting in the Badlands of Nebraska and South Dakota. He enjoyed wood-working and going to Craft Fairs with Mary Lou. He made toy barns and over 40 Barbie Doll Houses for gifts and to sell at the Craft Fairs, plus other wood items. He enjoyed making the coffee every morning for the Morning Coffee Hour at the GordonSeniorCenter with friends.
He is survived by wife of 54 years Mary Lou; daughter Kathy [Ken] Bate of Rushville, NE; son Tim [Tonya] Anderson of Ft. Morgan, CO; granddaughters Tesla [Ray] Mann, Tara [Cleat] Young, Tricia Anderson, and Sierra Benner, all of Ft. Morgan, CO, and Tianna Rose of Hay Springs, NE; great-grandchildren Shalee Howton, Dillon Howton and Alix Young of Ft. Morgan, CO and great-great-grandchild Bentley; sister Hazel [Delmar] Miller of North Platte, NE; and a number of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brother Lloyd, who was killed in Korea; and sister and brother-in-law Clara and Frank Shupe of Denver, CO.
Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for Roy Phillip Anderson.
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