Obituaries:  Weldon Bailey Anderson, Sabine Parish       A-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 8, 2002
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Weldon Bailey Anderson (Photo)

  Weldon Bailey Anderson of Many died in a nursing home in Baton
Rouge, on Saturday morning, May 4. Mr. Anderson was the son of
Sabine pioneers Wick Lee Anderson of Florien, and Maggie Crowell
Anderson of Sabine Town, Texas. His services were held in Many,
at St. John's Catholic Church, on Monday, May 6, at 10 a.m., with
burial following in the church cemetery, with his nine grandsons
serving as pallbearers.

  Mr. Anderson served his country honorably in the Navy for six
years, both before, and during World War II, and worked twenty
eight years for Schulumberger Oil Well Surveying Co., primarily
out of Shreveport. There, he and his wife, Cleta McCormic
Anderson, raised a family of seven children, until he took early
retirement because of poor health.

  The couple and their two youngest children returned home to
Sabine Parish, bought land, and built their retirement home,
where he remained active in the building trade, as well as
working his farm, and with the Sabine Parish Police Jury.

  He taught all of his family the value of hard work, and gave
them many gifts, among them a zest for life, a drive to excel,
and a sense of justice, of right and fairness, and most of all, a
strong faith in his loving Father.

  He was predeceased by his wife, Cleta; a young son, John Weldon
Anderson; a grandson, Gary Anderson; a great granddaughter,
Ashton McMillian; his younger brothers, L. C., and Luke Anderson;
his parents, and stepmother, Ida Crowell Anderson; and a number
of beloved cousins and friends.

  Survivors include seven children and their spouses, Pat
Quayhagen and husband Jim, Margaret Basco and husband Darien, and
Rose Gatti and Terry, all of Many, David Anderson and wife Ruth
of Pearl River, Ray Anderson and wife Mary Ann of Lacomb, Mary
Musser and husband Ron of Prairieville, and Lou Mancil and
husband Mike of Midland, Texas; 19 grandchildren; 28 great
grandchildren; and one great-great grandson. He is survived as
well, by a multitude of relatives on both sides of the Sabine
River, and many friends he made wherever he went or lived.

  The family thanks his caregivers at the Ollie Steele Burden
Manor Nursing Home in Baton Rouge, where he spent the last year
and a half of his life.

  Memorials may be made in his name, to the Sabine Parish Library,
especially for the purchase of large print books, or to any
charity of the giver's choice.