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Bernice Mae <I>Goudy</I> Anderson

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Bernice Mae Goudy Anderson

Birth
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA
Death
7 Aug 1997 (aged 102)
Fortuna, Humboldt County, California, USA
Burial
Partridge, Reno County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
North Annex, Lot 22, grave 2
Memorial ID
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Wife of Lyle Anderson. Lyle and Bernice planted many trees, (it has been said over 100 different kind), at their home 2 and 1/2 miles south of Partridge, Reno Co., KS, USA, at the location known in the community as "Shadow Lane".

ANDERSON, BERNICE GOUDY
Bernice Goudy Anderson, author and teacher of voice, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, November 17, 1894, daughter of Arthur Lincoln and Anita Sarah (Melvin) Goudy.
Bernice Goudy attended public and high school and the preparatory school of Doane College at Crete, Nebraska, and attended Washburn College at Topeka, Kansas. She received a public school music diploma from Doane conservatory in 1912 and in 1917 was a graduate in voice and public school music under Madame Konopasek at Washburn College. She attended summer school at Emporia State Normal in 914. While at Doane she was a member of the glee club and girls quartet, and at Washburn College was initiated into the Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota.
On October 24, 1919, she was married to Lyle Anderson at Partridge. He was born near DeLong, Illinois, March 4, 1893. There is one son, Robert Arthur born November 20, 1921.
From 1914 until 1916 Mrs. Anderson taught music in the grade schools of Norton and from 1917 until 1919 music and art in the grade and high schools of Cedar Vale. After her marriage she taught music and art in Partrdige's grade school during 1919-1920 and 1922-24 and again from 1928 until 1930.
Among Mrs. Anderson's published works are the following juvenile books: Topsy Turvy's Pigtails, published by Rand, McNally & Company in 1930; Topsy Turvy and the Tin Clow, published in 1932; the libretto of a juvenile operetta, Cabbage Patch Magic (music by Dale Asher Jacobus, of Hutchinson) being published by C. C. Birchard & Company; a juvenile play, Was it Witchcraft? Being published by the Willis N. Bugbee Company; numerous articles in the Author and Journalist and stories, poems, and articles in many juvenile magazines. She has a fifty thousand word gypsy novel and a book-length collection of authentic Indian stories together with three plays, on publishers' waiting lists. Mrs. Anderson writes mostly for children, although many of her poems have appeared in adult magazines.
She is a member of the Poetry Society of Kansas, and was its first corresponding secretary (1930-1932). She served as first head of the Juvenile Literature Department of the Kansas Authors Club (1929-1931), and is a member of the Hutchinson Writers' Guild and the Civic Center Club of Hutchinson.
Mrs. Anderson enjoys taking part in home talent plays, painting, nature study, collecting antique furniture, and collecting interesting and beautiful rocks for a driveway entrance to the Anderson home. Residence: Partridge. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, pages 33 & 34)
Per: Bertha Avery-Hood (46546576) 7/8/2022
Wife of Lyle Anderson. Lyle and Bernice planted many trees, (it has been said over 100 different kind), at their home 2 and 1/2 miles south of Partridge, Reno Co., KS, USA, at the location known in the community as "Shadow Lane".

ANDERSON, BERNICE GOUDY
Bernice Goudy Anderson, author and teacher of voice, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, November 17, 1894, daughter of Arthur Lincoln and Anita Sarah (Melvin) Goudy.
Bernice Goudy attended public and high school and the preparatory school of Doane College at Crete, Nebraska, and attended Washburn College at Topeka, Kansas. She received a public school music diploma from Doane conservatory in 1912 and in 1917 was a graduate in voice and public school music under Madame Konopasek at Washburn College. She attended summer school at Emporia State Normal in 914. While at Doane she was a member of the glee club and girls quartet, and at Washburn College was initiated into the Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota.
On October 24, 1919, she was married to Lyle Anderson at Partridge. He was born near DeLong, Illinois, March 4, 1893. There is one son, Robert Arthur born November 20, 1921.
From 1914 until 1916 Mrs. Anderson taught music in the grade schools of Norton and from 1917 until 1919 music and art in the grade and high schools of Cedar Vale. After her marriage she taught music and art in Partrdige's grade school during 1919-1920 and 1922-24 and again from 1928 until 1930.
Among Mrs. Anderson's published works are the following juvenile books: Topsy Turvy's Pigtails, published by Rand, McNally & Company in 1930; Topsy Turvy and the Tin Clow, published in 1932; the libretto of a juvenile operetta, Cabbage Patch Magic (music by Dale Asher Jacobus, of Hutchinson) being published by C. C. Birchard & Company; a juvenile play, Was it Witchcraft? Being published by the Willis N. Bugbee Company; numerous articles in the Author and Journalist and stories, poems, and articles in many juvenile magazines. She has a fifty thousand word gypsy novel and a book-length collection of authentic Indian stories together with three plays, on publishers' waiting lists. Mrs. Anderson writes mostly for children, although many of her poems have appeared in adult magazines.
She is a member of the Poetry Society of Kansas, and was its first corresponding secretary (1930-1932). She served as first head of the Juvenile Literature Department of the Kansas Authors Club (1929-1931), and is a member of the Hutchinson Writers' Guild and the Civic Center Club of Hutchinson.
Mrs. Anderson enjoys taking part in home talent plays, painting, nature study, collecting antique furniture, and collecting interesting and beautiful rocks for a driveway entrance to the Anderson home. Residence: Partridge. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, pages 33 & 34)
Per: Bertha Avery-Hood (46546576) 7/8/2022


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