Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Obits from Amarillo Online Newspapers  11 August 1998
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Amarillo

Garth T. Anderson

Garth T. Anderson, 78, of Amarillo, died Sunday, Aug. 9, 1998.
   
Services will be at 11 a.m. today in First United Methodist Church in Canyon
with the Rev. Richard Bales, pastor, and the Rev. Kevin Deckard, associate
pastor, officiating. Additional services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Capps
Memorial Chapel at Fairfield. Burial will be at Birdston Cemetery at Streetman.
Local arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
   
Mr. Anderson was born in Streetman. He retired in 1982 from pipeline
construction. After retirement, he raised cattle. He was an honorary member of
the Randall County Sheriff's Posse and a member of River Road Baptist Church.
He served in the Marine Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.
   
He married Mable "Andy" Massey in 1948. He was preceded in death by a daughter,
Judy Beth, in 1959.
   
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Jane Anderson King of Canyon; three
sisters, Elizabeth Carroll and Mattie Louise Bullard, both of Fairfield and
Edna Vyers of Ennis; and three granddaughters.
   
The family requests memorials be to the memorial scholarship fund at the Youth
Center of the High Plains, 9300 S. Georgia, Amarillo, Texas; or First United
Methodist Church of Canyon.