Arthur G Anderson's Obituary
Arthur George Anderson
Born in Tacoma, Washington, March 19th 1924 to Edith Chambers Anderson and A. George Anderson. The second of three children, he lived all his young year in Tacoma, attending Horace Mann Grade School and Lincoln High School. As a teen, he worked for the Port Cold Storage and after graduating he worked for Kelley, Fafquhar Forzen Food Packers as a machinist. When the war called him to service he was inducted into the Army Air Corp. There was hopes of training him to be a tail gunner on bombers, but his near sightedness soon found him in the combat engineers. They swept mine fields, cleared roads and built bridges for the Army tanks artillery and infantry to advance. Activated November 1943 train at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin 1943-1944 including crash courses at Rhode Island University, he was sent to England for months training. December 19, 1944 found him in combat attached to General Patton’s Third Army and rushing in to the Battle of the Bulge. They were the 280th Combat Engineers. Their motto “We prepare the way”. Art served with that unit in the Ardennes Campaign, the Campaign of the Rhineland, The Campaign of Central Europe. In France, Luxembourger, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. The later campaigns with Genera Simpson’s ninth army they slogged into VE day and deactivation in November 1945.
Post war found Art back in Tacoma and again working in the frozen food industry where he remained through two more companies, Dalgety Foods based in England and Simplot of Idaho. He retired after forty-four years to home in Edgewood, growing roses and fuchsia and dabbling in grass root politics.
Art died December 12th after a short illness. He was 89 years, nine months. He is survived by his wife of nearly 60, Mona Graham Anderson, his daughter Tara Anderson, Son-in-law Vasco W Pickett, and granddaughter Eilish K Pickett. All of Charleston, South Carolina, also his brother Allen C Anderson, niece Conny Anderson, two nephews Craig and Curtis Anderson, their wives Chris and Holly and four grand nieces, two each who all reside in California.
A Memorial at Lopez Island Union Cemetery is planned when the clans can gather in may for it. Donations in his memory can be made to the cancer society.
Arrangements by Mountain View Funeral Home. Remembrances may be shared on the Tribute Wall
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