Leif Andersen
Longtime Westport resident and one of the
founders of Washington Crab Producers there,
Leif M. Andersen died Friday, Sept. 11. 1998,
in a Seattle hospital. He was 73.
He was born Jan. 13, 1925, at Seattle to Lars
and Arnolda (Johansen) Anderson. He grew up
on Camano Island and moved to Ocosta 55 years ago, graduating from Ocosta High School in 1942.
During World War II, he served with the Navy
in the Pacific.
In 1947, he married Clydena Gladys White at Raymond. She died in 1991.
On March 2, 1994, he married Norma Johnson Gudbranson Johnson at Federal Way. She survived him at Westport.
After World War II, Anderson fished commercially out of Westport for almost 20 years.In 1958, he was part of a group of fisherman who bought out Kaskinon Cannery and formed Washington Crab Products, which he managed from 1965 to 1994, when he retired.
Anderson was a life member of the South Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars in Westport and belonged, as well, to the Westport and Ocosta Booster clubs, chairing the annual crab feed for many years.
He was also a member of Westhaven Masonic Lodge, now part of Hoquiam No. 64; Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Hoquiam; Afifi Temple of the Shrine, for which he was part Potentate and chairman of the annual crab feed; Grays Harbor Shrine Club and Shrine Jesters and Patrol.
A regular attender of all Ocosta High School athletic games, he was awarded the Terry Huggins Award of Ocosta High School in 1995.
Survivors include a son, Rex of Westport; seven daughters, Charmaine Brown of Brown's Point, Jacqueline Cartright of Federal Way, Carol Collier, Lois Aciders and Jerry Weaver, all of Blaina Carla Parkes of Scottsdale, Ariz.,and Linda Holley of Sweet Home, Ore; two sisters, Dolly Rachon of Marysville and Lorna Rachon of Lake Stevens; 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A brother, Arthur Taylor, died 1988.
A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in the Hoquiam Masonic Temple, internment will be in the Fern Hill Cemetery of Aberdeen.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Ocosta Booster Club, care of Linda Walish, P.O. Box 1448, Westport.
The Aberdeen Daily World, September 14, 1998
Longtime Westport resident and one of the
founders of Washington Crab Producers there,
Leif M. Andersen died Friday, Sept. 11. 1998,
in a Seattle hospital. He was 73.
He was born Jan. 13, 1925, at Seattle to Lars
and Arnolda (Johansen) Anderson. He grew up
on Camano Island and moved to Ocosta 55 years ago, graduating from Ocosta High School in 1942.
During World War II, he served with the Navy
in the Pacific.
In 1947, he married Clydena Gladys White at Raymond. She died in 1991.
On March 2, 1994, he married Norma Johnson Gudbranson Johnson at Federal Way. She survived him at Westport.
After World War II, Anderson fished commercially out of Westport for almost 20 years.In 1958, he was part of a group of fisherman who bought out Kaskinon Cannery and formed Washington Crab Products, which he managed from 1965 to 1994, when he retired.
Anderson was a life member of the South Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars in Westport and belonged, as well, to the Westport and Ocosta Booster clubs, chairing the annual crab feed for many years.
He was also a member of Westhaven Masonic Lodge, now part of Hoquiam No. 64; Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Hoquiam; Afifi Temple of the Shrine, for which he was part Potentate and chairman of the annual crab feed; Grays Harbor Shrine Club and Shrine Jesters and Patrol.
A regular attender of all Ocosta High School athletic games, he was awarded the Terry Huggins Award of Ocosta High School in 1995.
Survivors include a son, Rex of Westport; seven daughters, Charmaine Brown of Brown's Point, Jacqueline Cartright of Federal Way, Carol Collier, Lois Aciders and Jerry Weaver, all of Blaina Carla Parkes of Scottsdale, Ariz.,and Linda Holley of Sweet Home, Ore; two sisters, Dolly Rachon of Marysville and Lorna Rachon of Lake Stevens; 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A brother, Arthur Taylor, died 1988.
A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in the Hoquiam Masonic Temple, internment will be in the Fern Hill Cemetery of Aberdeen.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Ocosta Booster Club, care of Linda Walish, P.O. Box 1448, Westport.
The Aberdeen Daily World, September 14, 1998
Leif Andersen
Longtime Westport resident and one of the
founders of Washington Crab Producers there,
Leif M. Andersen died Friday, Sept. 11. 1998,
in a Seattle hospital. He was 73.
He was born Jan. 13, 1925, at Seattle to Lars
and Arnolda (Johansen) Anderson. He grew up
on Camano Island and moved to Ocosta 55 years ago, graduating from Ocosta High School in 1942.
During World War II, he served with the Navy
in the Pacific.
In 1947, he married Clydena Gladys White at Raymond. She died in 1991.
On March 2, 1994, he married Norma Johnson Gudbranson Johnson at Federal Way. She survived him at Westport.
After World War II, Anderson fished commercially out of Westport for almost 20 years.In 1958, he was part of a group of fisherman who bought out Kaskinon Cannery and formed Washington Crab Products, which he managed from 1965 to 1994, when he retired.
Anderson was a life member of the South Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars in Westport and belonged, as well, to the Westport and Ocosta Booster clubs, chairing the annual crab feed for many years.
He was also a member of Westhaven Masonic Lodge, now part of Hoquiam No. 64; Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Hoquiam; Afifi Temple of the Shrine, for which he was part Potentate and chairman of the annual crab feed; Grays Harbor Shrine Club and Shrine Jesters and Patrol.
A regular attender of all Ocosta High School athletic games, he was awarded the Terry Huggins Award of Ocosta High School in 1995.
Survivors include a son, Rex of Westport; seven daughters, Charmaine Brown of Brown's Point, Jacqueline Cartright of Federal Way, Carol Collier, Lois Aciders and Jerry Weaver, all of Blaina Carla Parkes of Scottsdale, Ariz.,and Linda Holley of Sweet Home, Ore; two sisters, Dolly Rachon of Marysville and Lorna Rachon of Lake Stevens; 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A brother, Arthur Taylor, died 1988.
A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in the Hoquiam Masonic Temple, internment will be in the Fern Hill Cemetery of Aberdeen.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Ocosta Booster Club, care of Linda Walish, P.O. Box 1448, Westport.
The Aberdeen Daily World, September 14, 1998
Longtime Westport resident and one of the
founders of Washington Crab Producers there,
Leif M. Andersen died Friday, Sept. 11. 1998,
in a Seattle hospital. He was 73.
He was born Jan. 13, 1925, at Seattle to Lars
and Arnolda (Johansen) Anderson. He grew up
on Camano Island and moved to Ocosta 55 years ago, graduating from Ocosta High School in 1942.
During World War II, he served with the Navy
in the Pacific.
In 1947, he married Clydena Gladys White at Raymond. She died in 1991.
On March 2, 1994, he married Norma Johnson Gudbranson Johnson at Federal Way. She survived him at Westport.
After World War II, Anderson fished commercially out of Westport for almost 20 years.In 1958, he was part of a group of fisherman who bought out Kaskinon Cannery and formed Washington Crab Products, which he managed from 1965 to 1994, when he retired.
Anderson was a life member of the South Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars in Westport and belonged, as well, to the Westport and Ocosta Booster clubs, chairing the annual crab feed for many years.
He was also a member of Westhaven Masonic Lodge, now part of Hoquiam No. 64; Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Hoquiam; Afifi Temple of the Shrine, for which he was part Potentate and chairman of the annual crab feed; Grays Harbor Shrine Club and Shrine Jesters and Patrol.
A regular attender of all Ocosta High School athletic games, he was awarded the Terry Huggins Award of Ocosta High School in 1995.
Survivors include a son, Rex of Westport; seven daughters, Charmaine Brown of Brown's Point, Jacqueline Cartright of Federal Way, Carol Collier, Lois Aciders and Jerry Weaver, all of Blaina Carla Parkes of Scottsdale, Ariz.,and Linda Holley of Sweet Home, Ore; two sisters, Dolly Rachon of Marysville and Lorna Rachon of Lake Stevens; 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A brother, Arthur Taylor, died 1988.
A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in the Hoquiam Masonic Temple, internment will be in the Fern Hill Cemetery of Aberdeen.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Ocosta Booster Club, care of Linda Walish, P.O. Box 1448, Westport.
The Aberdeen Daily World, September 14, 1998
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