Services for Joe Anderson, 98, of Tyler, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fib. 19, 2013, in the chapel of Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. Ron Byrd officiating. He will be laid to rest at Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
As a young man, Joe worked with his father in the family plumbing business. He volunteered for service entering the Army upon the outbreak of World War II. He was a gunnery sergeant in the Army and saw active duty in Sardinia in North Africa as well as in Italy and France. His service to his country was a source of pride in his life. He spoke of it frequently with both a fondness for the camaraderie and a solemnity befitting the actual endeavor of war. A point of particular interest was a brief but apparently memorable encounter with General George Patton.
After World War II, Joe married Gudrun Bertha Carlson and took employment with Exxon as an independent petroleum landman. His employment with Exxon put him in New Orleans, La., in the early 1950s. Subsequently he was moved by his employment to Exxon to Chico, Calif., and Roswell, N.M. His final move with Exxon brought him to Tyler in 1968 where he worked as an independent landman until he retired in his early 70s. Joe was a successful and respected landman throughout his career.
Joe had a love for the outdoors and animals and, though he never hunted, he was an avid fisherman. He fished for redfish and speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain while in New Orleans, trout in northern California around Chico and even tried for trout in the bottomless lakes of New Mexico, but he never lost his love for the fishing of his youth in Wisconsin. From all the places his employment took him, he rarely missed an annual pilgrimage to Lake Chippewa Flowage in northern Wisconsin, where he relentlessly pursued northern pike, walleye and his favorite, the elusive muskellunge. Anyone who has ever tried to catch a muskellunge knows the determination that it takes to be successful, and Joe had that determination.
Joe was preceded in death by his wife Gudrun; his parents; and his sister, Virginia Easterling, of Tyler. He is survived by his only child, his daughter, Barbara Goldsmith and son-in-law Gene Goldsmith, of Tyler, his sisters, Betty Sewell, of Tyler, and Harriet Bailey, of Spring; several nieces and nephews; and his dog, Maggie, and cat, Barney.
Pallbearers will be Mike Sewell, Tom Bailey, Bill Easterling, Richard Roth, R.D. Neill and John Alexander.
The family request memorials be made to The Salvation Army in Tyler, to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation or to the East Texas Humane Society in Joe's name.
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on February 17, 2013
As a young man, Joe worked with his father in the family plumbing business. He volunteered for service entering the Army upon the outbreak of World War II. He was a gunnery sergeant in the Army and saw active duty in Sardinia in North Africa as well as in Italy and France. His service to his country was a source of pride in his life. He spoke of it frequently with both a fondness for the camaraderie and a solemnity befitting the actual endeavor of war. A point of particular interest was a brief but apparently memorable encounter with General George Patton.
After World War II, Joe married Gudrun Bertha Carlson and took employment with Exxon as an independent petroleum landman. His employment with Exxon put him in New Orleans, La., in the early 1950s. Subsequently he was moved by his employment to Exxon to Chico, Calif., and Roswell, N.M. His final move with Exxon brought him to Tyler in 1968 where he worked as an independent landman until he retired in his early 70s. Joe was a successful and respected landman throughout his career.
Joe had a love for the outdoors and animals and, though he never hunted, he was an avid fisherman. He fished for redfish and speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain while in New Orleans, trout in northern California around Chico and even tried for trout in the bottomless lakes of New Mexico, but he never lost his love for the fishing of his youth in Wisconsin. From all the places his employment took him, he rarely missed an annual pilgrimage to Lake Chippewa Flowage in northern Wisconsin, where he relentlessly pursued northern pike, walleye and his favorite, the elusive muskellunge. Anyone who has ever tried to catch a muskellunge knows the determination that it takes to be successful, and Joe had that determination.
Joe was preceded in death by his wife Gudrun; his parents; and his sister, Virginia Easterling, of Tyler. He is survived by his only child, his daughter, Barbara Goldsmith and son-in-law Gene Goldsmith, of Tyler, his sisters, Betty Sewell, of Tyler, and Harriet Bailey, of Spring; several nieces and nephews; and his dog, Maggie, and cat, Barney.
Pallbearers will be Mike Sewell, Tom Bailey, Bill Easterling, Richard Roth, R.D. Neill and John Alexander.
The family request memorials be made to The Salvation Army in Tyler, to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation or to the East Texas Humane Society in Joe's name.
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on February 17, 2013
Services for Joe Anderson, 98, of Tyler, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fib. 19, 2013, in the chapel of Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. Ron Byrd officiating. He will be laid to rest at Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
As a young man, Joe worked with his father in the family plumbing business. He volunteered for service entering the Army upon the outbreak of World War II. He was a gunnery sergeant in the Army and saw active duty in Sardinia in North Africa as well as in Italy and France. His service to his country was a source of pride in his life. He spoke of it frequently with both a fondness for the camaraderie and a solemnity befitting the actual endeavor of war. A point of particular interest was a brief but apparently memorable encounter with General George Patton.
After World War II, Joe married Gudrun Bertha Carlson and took employment with Exxon as an independent petroleum landman. His employment with Exxon put him in New Orleans, La., in the early 1950s. Subsequently he was moved by his employment to Exxon to Chico, Calif., and Roswell, N.M. His final move with Exxon brought him to Tyler in 1968 where he worked as an independent landman until he retired in his early 70s. Joe was a successful and respected landman throughout his career.
Joe had a love for the outdoors and animals and, though he never hunted, he was an avid fisherman. He fished for redfish and speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain while in New Orleans, trout in northern California around Chico and even tried for trout in the bottomless lakes of New Mexico, but he never lost his love for the fishing of his youth in Wisconsin. From all the places his employment took him, he rarely missed an annual pilgrimage to Lake Chippewa Flowage in northern Wisconsin, where he relentlessly pursued northern pike, walleye and his favorite, the elusive muskellunge. Anyone who has ever tried to catch a muskellunge knows the determination that it takes to be successful, and Joe had that determination.
Joe was preceded in death by his wife Gudrun; his parents; and his sister, Virginia Easterling, of Tyler. He is survived by his only child, his daughter, Barbara Goldsmith and son-in-law Gene Goldsmith, of Tyler, his sisters, Betty Sewell, of Tyler, and Harriet Bailey, of Spring; several nieces and nephews; and his dog, Maggie, and cat, Barney.
Pallbearers will be Mike Sewell, Tom Bailey, Bill Easterling, Richard Roth, R.D. Neill and John Alexander.
The family request memorials be made to The Salvation Army in Tyler, to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation or to the East Texas Humane Society in Joe's name.
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on February 17, 2013
As a young man, Joe worked with his father in the family plumbing business. He volunteered for service entering the Army upon the outbreak of World War II. He was a gunnery sergeant in the Army and saw active duty in Sardinia in North Africa as well as in Italy and France. His service to his country was a source of pride in his life. He spoke of it frequently with both a fondness for the camaraderie and a solemnity befitting the actual endeavor of war. A point of particular interest was a brief but apparently memorable encounter with General George Patton.
After World War II, Joe married Gudrun Bertha Carlson and took employment with Exxon as an independent petroleum landman. His employment with Exxon put him in New Orleans, La., in the early 1950s. Subsequently he was moved by his employment to Exxon to Chico, Calif., and Roswell, N.M. His final move with Exxon brought him to Tyler in 1968 where he worked as an independent landman until he retired in his early 70s. Joe was a successful and respected landman throughout his career.
Joe had a love for the outdoors and animals and, though he never hunted, he was an avid fisherman. He fished for redfish and speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain while in New Orleans, trout in northern California around Chico and even tried for trout in the bottomless lakes of New Mexico, but he never lost his love for the fishing of his youth in Wisconsin. From all the places his employment took him, he rarely missed an annual pilgrimage to Lake Chippewa Flowage in northern Wisconsin, where he relentlessly pursued northern pike, walleye and his favorite, the elusive muskellunge. Anyone who has ever tried to catch a muskellunge knows the determination that it takes to be successful, and Joe had that determination.
Joe was preceded in death by his wife Gudrun; his parents; and his sister, Virginia Easterling, of Tyler. He is survived by his only child, his daughter, Barbara Goldsmith and son-in-law Gene Goldsmith, of Tyler, his sisters, Betty Sewell, of Tyler, and Harriet Bailey, of Spring; several nieces and nephews; and his dog, Maggie, and cat, Barney.
Pallbearers will be Mike Sewell, Tom Bailey, Bill Easterling, Richard Roth, R.D. Neill and John Alexander.
The family request memorials be made to The Salvation Army in Tyler, to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation or to the East Texas Humane Society in Joe's name.
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on February 17, 2013
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