Songwriter and gospel preacher. He spoke on the first Freed-Hardeman College lectureship in 1937. Terry Gardner wrote: Born into a Methodist family near Jonesboro, Ark., Lloyd Otis Sanderson was sprinkled at age 11. James E. Laird taught Sanderson the gospel and immersed him into Christ in 1922. Sanderson attended a number of colleges including Harper and Harding. A person of many gifts, Sanderson excelled in debate, preaching, song leading, teaching, songwriting, hymnal editing, and many other things. In 1933 Foy E. Wallace Jr. hired Sanderson to be the music editor and a staff writer for the Gospel Advocate. Sanderson edited Christian Hymns I, II, III, for the Gospel Advocate Co. He also wrote the music to more than 500 songs, including "Be With Me, Lord." In late 1937, when the Gospel Advocate's editor, John T. Hinds, was disabled (he died on Jan. 1, 1938), Sanderson "assisted by W. E. Brightwell, edited the Gospel Advocate until the appointment of B. C. Goodpasture in the spring of 1939. Sanderson also served as business manager for the Gospel Advocate Co. for seven years. He founded and edited the Christian Counselor. Gospel Advocate, June 2005. Gospel preacher listed in Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1952, 300.
L. O. Sanderson, the former music editor of the Gospel Advocate Company, died Jan. 17 at his home in Memphis. Tenn. He was born May 18, 1901, in Craighead County, Ark., to James P. and Lucy Hunt Sanderson. Sanderson was convened in 1922 at the age of 21 and immediately was employed to lead the singing at the Bono, Ark., Church of. Christ. One year later Sanderson went to teach at, Harper Christian College in Kansas, which later combined with Arkansas Christian College in Morrilton, Ark., to form Harding College in 1924. It was in Harper at graduation time in 1924 that Sanderson met Rena Raye Woodring of Texola, Okla. They were married Aug. 29. 1927. Both graduated from Harding in 1928. The Sandersons worked in Springfield. Mo. until 1935, at which time they moved to Nashville. Tenn., where Sanderson began working for the Gospel Advocate and teaching part-time at David Lipscomb College. He had already been employed by the Gospel Advocate since 1933 as a music editor. Sanderson wrote more than 400 hymns including "Buried with Christ." "The Lord Has Been Mindful of Me," "Pray All The Time," "I'll Never Forsake My Lord" and "Be with Me Lord." The Sandersons also worked in Tulsa, Okla.; Norman. Okla.; Utile Rock, Ark; Wichita. Kan.; Amarillo. Texas; Columbia. Tenn.; Memphis and Atlanta. Sanderson was preceded in death by his daughter Lloydene, who died of cancer Aug. 2, 1984; and his wife, Rena Raye, who died Aug. 15. 1984, after being hit by a car while crossing the street. The same accident left L.O. crippled. He is survived by his wife, Vesta Stowe Sanderson. whom he married in 1988; his son, Leon, of Memphis: six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the Wooddale church in Memphis. Participants in the service were Paul Epps, Tex Stevens, Edward P. Myers. Jim Howard and Jim Rogers. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be sent to Harding University Graduate School in Memphis or Harding University in Searcy. Ark. Scholarships are established in the Sanderson name at both schools. --Gospel Advocate, March 1992, page 29.
L. O. Sanderson, the former music editor of the Gospel Advocate Company, died Jan. 17 at his home in Memphis. Tenn. He was born May 18, 1901, in Craighead County, Ark., to James P. and Lucy Hunt Sanderson. Sanderson was convened in 1922 at the age of 21 and immediately was employed to lead the singing at the Bono, Ark., Church of. Christ. One year later Sanderson went to teach at, Harper Christian College in Kansas, which later combined with Arkansas Christian College in Morrilton, Ark., to form Harding College in 1924. It was in Harper at graduation time in 1924 that Sanderson met Rena Raye Woodring of Texola, Okla. They were married Aug. 29. 1927. Both graduated from Harding in 1928. The Sandersons worked in Springfield. Mo. until 1935, at which time they moved to Nashville. Tenn., where Sanderson began working for the Gospel Advocate and teaching part-time at David Lipscomb College. He had already been employed by the Gospel Advocate since 1933 as a music editor. Sanderson wrote more than 400 hymns including "Buried with Christ." "The Lord Has Been Mindful of Me," "Pray All The Time," "I'll Never Forsake My Lord" and "Be with Me Lord." The Sandersons also worked in Tulsa, Okla.; Norman. Okla.; Utile Rock, Ark; Wichita. Kan.; Amarillo. Texas; Columbia. Tenn.; Memphis and Atlanta. Sanderson was preceded in death by his daughter Lloydene, who died of cancer Aug. 2, 1984; and his wife, Rena Raye, who died Aug. 15. 1984, after being hit by a car while crossing the street. The same accident left L.O. crippled. He is survived by his wife, Vesta Stowe Sanderson. whom he married in 1988; his son, Leon, of Memphis: six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the Wooddale church in Memphis. Participants in the service were Paul Epps, Tex Stevens, Edward P. Myers. Jim Howard and Jim Rogers. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be sent to Harding University Graduate School in Memphis or Harding University in Searcy. Ark. Scholarships are established in the Sanderson name at both schools. --Gospel Advocate, March 1992, page 29.
Songwriter and gospel preacher. He spoke on the first Freed-Hardeman College lectureship in 1937. Terry Gardner wrote: Born into a Methodist family near Jonesboro, Ark., Lloyd Otis Sanderson was sprinkled at age 11. James E. Laird taught Sanderson the gospel and immersed him into Christ in 1922. Sanderson attended a number of colleges including Harper and Harding. A person of many gifts, Sanderson excelled in debate, preaching, song leading, teaching, songwriting, hymnal editing, and many other things. In 1933 Foy E. Wallace Jr. hired Sanderson to be the music editor and a staff writer for the Gospel Advocate. Sanderson edited Christian Hymns I, II, III, for the Gospel Advocate Co. He also wrote the music to more than 500 songs, including "Be With Me, Lord." In late 1937, when the Gospel Advocate's editor, John T. Hinds, was disabled (he died on Jan. 1, 1938), Sanderson "assisted by W. E. Brightwell, edited the Gospel Advocate until the appointment of B. C. Goodpasture in the spring of 1939. Sanderson also served as business manager for the Gospel Advocate Co. for seven years. He founded and edited the Christian Counselor. Gospel Advocate, June 2005. Gospel preacher listed in Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1952, 300.
L. O. Sanderson, the former music editor of the Gospel Advocate Company, died Jan. 17 at his home in Memphis. Tenn. He was born May 18, 1901, in Craighead County, Ark., to James P. and Lucy Hunt Sanderson. Sanderson was convened in 1922 at the age of 21 and immediately was employed to lead the singing at the Bono, Ark., Church of. Christ. One year later Sanderson went to teach at, Harper Christian College in Kansas, which later combined with Arkansas Christian College in Morrilton, Ark., to form Harding College in 1924. It was in Harper at graduation time in 1924 that Sanderson met Rena Raye Woodring of Texola, Okla. They were married Aug. 29. 1927. Both graduated from Harding in 1928. The Sandersons worked in Springfield. Mo. until 1935, at which time they moved to Nashville. Tenn., where Sanderson began working for the Gospel Advocate and teaching part-time at David Lipscomb College. He had already been employed by the Gospel Advocate since 1933 as a music editor. Sanderson wrote more than 400 hymns including "Buried with Christ." "The Lord Has Been Mindful of Me," "Pray All The Time," "I'll Never Forsake My Lord" and "Be with Me Lord." The Sandersons also worked in Tulsa, Okla.; Norman. Okla.; Utile Rock, Ark; Wichita. Kan.; Amarillo. Texas; Columbia. Tenn.; Memphis and Atlanta. Sanderson was preceded in death by his daughter Lloydene, who died of cancer Aug. 2, 1984; and his wife, Rena Raye, who died Aug. 15. 1984, after being hit by a car while crossing the street. The same accident left L.O. crippled. He is survived by his wife, Vesta Stowe Sanderson. whom he married in 1988; his son, Leon, of Memphis: six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the Wooddale church in Memphis. Participants in the service were Paul Epps, Tex Stevens, Edward P. Myers. Jim Howard and Jim Rogers. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be sent to Harding University Graduate School in Memphis or Harding University in Searcy. Ark. Scholarships are established in the Sanderson name at both schools. --Gospel Advocate, March 1992, page 29.
L. O. Sanderson, the former music editor of the Gospel Advocate Company, died Jan. 17 at his home in Memphis. Tenn. He was born May 18, 1901, in Craighead County, Ark., to James P. and Lucy Hunt Sanderson. Sanderson was convened in 1922 at the age of 21 and immediately was employed to lead the singing at the Bono, Ark., Church of. Christ. One year later Sanderson went to teach at, Harper Christian College in Kansas, which later combined with Arkansas Christian College in Morrilton, Ark., to form Harding College in 1924. It was in Harper at graduation time in 1924 that Sanderson met Rena Raye Woodring of Texola, Okla. They were married Aug. 29. 1927. Both graduated from Harding in 1928. The Sandersons worked in Springfield. Mo. until 1935, at which time they moved to Nashville. Tenn., where Sanderson began working for the Gospel Advocate and teaching part-time at David Lipscomb College. He had already been employed by the Gospel Advocate since 1933 as a music editor. Sanderson wrote more than 400 hymns including "Buried with Christ." "The Lord Has Been Mindful of Me," "Pray All The Time," "I'll Never Forsake My Lord" and "Be with Me Lord." The Sandersons also worked in Tulsa, Okla.; Norman. Okla.; Utile Rock, Ark; Wichita. Kan.; Amarillo. Texas; Columbia. Tenn.; Memphis and Atlanta. Sanderson was preceded in death by his daughter Lloydene, who died of cancer Aug. 2, 1984; and his wife, Rena Raye, who died Aug. 15. 1984, after being hit by a car while crossing the street. The same accident left L.O. crippled. He is survived by his wife, Vesta Stowe Sanderson. whom he married in 1988; his son, Leon, of Memphis: six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the Wooddale church in Memphis. Participants in the service were Paul Epps, Tex Stevens, Edward P. Myers. Jim Howard and Jim Rogers. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be sent to Harding University Graduate School in Memphis or Harding University in Searcy. Ark. Scholarships are established in the Sanderson name at both schools. --Gospel Advocate, March 1992, page 29.
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