Bennett (Ben) M. Anderson, 69, of 268 Patterson, died at noon Sunday in a local hospital of burns suffered when a gasoline weedburner exploded at the farm of a son in Kanesville Friday evening.
Mr. Anderson and his son Alvin B. Anderson were heating a cauldron of tar while retarring a silo when the explosion happened. The son suffered burns on the hands, and the two were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
A life-long resident of Weber county, Mr. Anderson was a member of the Latter-day Saints church and had been president of the elders' quorum in the Kanesville and Roy wards. He also was active in M.I.A. work and an ardent sportsman.
Born in Ogden May 8, 1876, a son of Bennett and Margaret Moyes Anderson, he moved to Roy and Later to Kanesville, where he operated farms and dealt in cattle. Fifteen years ago he moved to Ogden. On Oct. 1, 1902, he married Margaret Russell in the Latter-day Saint Salt Lake temple.
Survivors include his widow; two sons, Mr. Anderson, Kanesville, and Russell A. Anderson, Roy; two daughters, Mrs. Harold Carver, Plain City, and Mrs. Rudell T. Willey, Ogden; two brothers and a half-brother, John A. and William M. Anderson, and Charles Larson, Ogden; four sisters, Mrs. Edward Cole, Ogden, and Mrs. Joseph Fife, Wilson; Mrs. Charles Barker, Bountiful, and Mrs. Spencer Bingham, Burley, Idaho; also 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services will be conduced Wednesday at two p.m. at the mortuary, 3408 Washington, by Bishop L. M. Hess of the Eleventh ward. Burial will be in the Ogden city cemetery.
Ogden Standard Examiner September 24, 1945
Bennett (Ben) M. Anderson, 69, of 268 Patterson, died at noon Sunday in a local hospital of burns suffered when a gasoline weedburner exploded at the farm of a son in Kanesville Friday evening.
Mr. Anderson and his son Alvin B. Anderson were heating a cauldron of tar while retarring a silo when the explosion happened. The son suffered burns on the hands, and the two were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
A life-long resident of Weber county, Mr. Anderson was a member of the Latter-day Saints church and had been president of the elders' quorum in the Kanesville and Roy wards. He also was active in M.I.A. work and an ardent sportsman.
Born in Ogden May 8, 1876, a son of Bennett and Margaret Moyes Anderson, he moved to Roy and Later to Kanesville, where he operated farms and dealt in cattle. Fifteen years ago he moved to Ogden. On Oct. 1, 1902, he married Margaret Russell in the Latter-day Saint Salt Lake temple.
Survivors include his widow; two sons, Mr. Anderson, Kanesville, and Russell A. Anderson, Roy; two daughters, Mrs. Harold Carver, Plain City, and Mrs. Rudell T. Willey, Ogden; two brothers and a half-brother, John A. and William M. Anderson, and Charles Larson, Ogden; four sisters, Mrs. Edward Cole, Ogden, and Mrs. Joseph Fife, Wilson; Mrs. Charles Barker, Bountiful, and Mrs. Spencer Bingham, Burley, Idaho; also 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services will be conduced Wednesday at two p.m. at the mortuary, 3408 Washington, by Bishop L. M. Hess of the Eleventh ward. Burial will be in the Ogden city cemetery.
Ogden Standard Examiner September 24, 1945
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Alexander M Anderson
1878–1890
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Stewart Moyes Anderson
1880–1936
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John Alexander Anderson
1883–1980
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Peter Anderson
1885–1885
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Margaret Anderson Fife
1886–1960
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Elizabeth Moyes Anderson Parker
1889–1969
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Robert M Anderson
1890–1891
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William Moyes Anderson
1892–1968
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Bertha Caroline Anderson Bingham
1894–1983
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Anna Charlotte Anderson Cole
1896–1973
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