"Cap" Anderson's Wife Laid to Rest Here
Services were held here Tuesday, May 15, for Mrs. Rosella Anderson, 85, who died at Healdsburg, California, Wednesday, May 9, 1951. Rev. Claire Bishop of the Adventist Church, North Bend, officiated, and Schroeder Brothers Mortuary was in charge. Interment was in the Bandon Cemetery in a plot in which the deceased's husband, Capt. John Anderson was buried in 1914.
Mrs. Anderson was born in Douglas County, Oregon, September 19, 1865, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Barker. She lived in Bandon with her husband for a number of years. The latter was a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Crew and later was captain on a small gas Schooner that plied between Coos Bay, Bandon, Port Orford and Gold Beach. He lost his life in an accident aboard his craft in the Gold Beach harbor.
Mrs. Anderson is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Singleton, of Roseburg. Other relatives are a sister-in-law, Mrs. Lee Cox, formerly of Langlois, and now of Myrtle Point, nieces and nephews including Mrs. Fritz Henry King, Powers, and Mrs. Whittington, Bandon.
[Obituary originally copied by Paul and Jewell Shelton and shared here courtesy of the Bandon Museum and Historical Society.]
"Cap" Anderson's Wife Laid to Rest Here
Services were held here Tuesday, May 15, for Mrs. Rosella Anderson, 85, who died at Healdsburg, California, Wednesday, May 9, 1951. Rev. Claire Bishop of the Adventist Church, North Bend, officiated, and Schroeder Brothers Mortuary was in charge. Interment was in the Bandon Cemetery in a plot in which the deceased's husband, Capt. John Anderson was buried in 1914.
Mrs. Anderson was born in Douglas County, Oregon, September 19, 1865, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Barker. She lived in Bandon with her husband for a number of years. The latter was a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Crew and later was captain on a small gas Schooner that plied between Coos Bay, Bandon, Port Orford and Gold Beach. He lost his life in an accident aboard his craft in the Gold Beach harbor.
Mrs. Anderson is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Singleton, of Roseburg. Other relatives are a sister-in-law, Mrs. Lee Cox, formerly of Langlois, and now of Myrtle Point, nieces and nephews including Mrs. Fritz Henry King, Powers, and Mrs. Whittington, Bandon.
[Obituary originally copied by Paul and Jewell Shelton and shared here courtesy of the Bandon Museum and Historical Society.]
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