Anderson was a Jesuit Priest and Missionary. Born 18 Sept 1913 and died 13 Oct 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Rev. Anderson Bakewell , a Jesuit priest and missionary, mountain climber and explorer who was a member of a prominent family here, died Wednesday (Oct. 13, 1999) at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., after suffering from cancer. He was 86.
A native of St. Louis, Father Bakewell led an adventurous and courageous life. He had climbed formidable mountain peaks in Latin America and Canada, including Mount Wood in the St. Elias Range of the Yukon, which in the early 1940s was the highest unclimbed mountain in North America, and Mexico's famous volcanoes - Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuitl. In 1950, he helped to organize the first attempt to reach Mount Everest from the south.In several scientific expeditions in the 1930s, he collected various amphibians and reptiles in Mexico and live venomous snakes in South America for the St. Louis Zoo. He received recognition as a big-game hunter for his kill of an Indian sloth bear and an Alaskan grizzly bear, and for a cougar that he killed wi th an arrow. The skull of the sloth bear is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
Father Bakewell earned a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University, where he also did graduate work in astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.
In 1942, he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and five years later volunteered for a mission to India. After he was ordained in 1951 in Calcutta, he continued to do missionary work in India until 1955, when he returned to the United States. Several years later, he served as an assistant pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy attended Mass.
He did missionary work for 10 years in Alaska before he was appointed chaplain for the Carmelite Monastery of Santa Fe. He was serving in that capacity at his death.
Father Bakewell was the son of the late Edward L. Bakewell Sr., founder of the Edward L. Bakewell Inc. residential real estate firm.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, 3628 Lindell Boulevard. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery.
Among the survivors are three sisters, Mildred Muckerman of Kirkwood, Joan Chouteau Bland of Ladue and Nancy Altvater of Creve Coeur.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sunday, October 17, 1999.
Anderson was a Jesuit Priest and Missionary. Born 18 Sept 1913 and died 13 Oct 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Rev. Anderson Bakewell , a Jesuit priest and missionary, mountain climber and explorer who was a member of a prominent family here, died Wednesday (Oct. 13, 1999) at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., after suffering from cancer. He was 86.
A native of St. Louis, Father Bakewell led an adventurous and courageous life. He had climbed formidable mountain peaks in Latin America and Canada, including Mount Wood in the St. Elias Range of the Yukon, which in the early 1940s was the highest unclimbed mountain in North America, and Mexico's famous volcanoes - Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuitl. In 1950, he helped to organize the first attempt to reach Mount Everest from the south.In several scientific expeditions in the 1930s, he collected various amphibians and reptiles in Mexico and live venomous snakes in South America for the St. Louis Zoo. He received recognition as a big-game hunter for his kill of an Indian sloth bear and an Alaskan grizzly bear, and for a cougar that he killed wi th an arrow. The skull of the sloth bear is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
Father Bakewell earned a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University, where he also did graduate work in astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.
In 1942, he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and five years later volunteered for a mission to India. After he was ordained in 1951 in Calcutta, he continued to do missionary work in India until 1955, when he returned to the United States. Several years later, he served as an assistant pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy attended Mass.
He did missionary work for 10 years in Alaska before he was appointed chaplain for the Carmelite Monastery of Santa Fe. He was serving in that capacity at his death.
Father Bakewell was the son of the late Edward L. Bakewell Sr., founder of the Edward L. Bakewell Inc. residential real estate firm.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, 3628 Lindell Boulevard. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery.
Among the survivors are three sisters, Mildred Muckerman of Kirkwood, Joan Chouteau Bland of Ladue and Nancy Altvater of Creve Coeur.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sunday, October 17, 1999.
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