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Melvin Keith Anderson.
Born August 11, 1925; Married June 9, 1950 (Phyllis Wilkinson)
Children: Rodney Eugene Anderson, June 13,
1951;
Becky Ann
Anderson Richardson,
July
4, 1953; Rickey Keith Anderson, August 3, 1957
Melvin Anderson was born to Reuben and Ruth
Anderson in
their home north of
Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. He grew up
there with two brothers and a sister.
He
attended the one room school at High Point Grades 1 and 3 through
6, and the
Albin Consolidated School Grades 2 and 7 through 12, graduating
in 1943.
He joined the US Navy V-12
program in March of 1943, going on active duty
in July. In the Navy, he attended
the University of Redlands and California
Institute of Technology with Midshipman training at Ft. Schuyler,
N.Y. The
commission was denied due to
weak eyes and he was sent to boot camp at Great
Lakes Naval Training Station.
From boot camp he went into Radio Technicians
training, completing his service while at Aircraft Radio
Technicians
school
in Corpus Christi, Texas.
He then attended John Brown University in
Siloam
Springs,
Ark., for two
years where he received a BS in Radio Engineering in 1948.
The following
year he earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University
of
Wyoming.
Due to the possibility of
service on the mission field, the next year was
spent studying at Bethel Seminary.
On. June 9, 1950, he married Phyllis
Wilkinson in Nowata, Oklahoma, and in
the
fall he started
teaching Electrical
Engineering at John Brown University.
After seven years and three children, he took a
teaching
position at
the University of Arkansas. There
he not only taught for eleven years but
completed work on a PhD in Engineering.
In 1968 the family moved to Longview,
Texas, where Melvin was the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering
and
Technology Department of LeTourneau College.
In
1975 Melvin and Phyllis
moved to southern Illinois where he taught Electrical Engineering
Technology
at Southern Illinois University. In
1980
they moved to Denver, Colorado,
where be took a position with Martin
Marietta Aerospace as an EMC
(electro-magnetic compatibility) engineer.
Rodney was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He attended school in Springdale,
Arkansas,
and the Pine Tree School in Longview, Texas.
He
still lives in Longview where he
works in manufacturing.
Becky was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She attended school in
Springdale, Arkansas, and Pine Tree in Longview, Texas.
She then attended
LeTourneau College
where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics.
She
was married to Ken Richardson in December 1974.
They
were divorced in 1978.
Since then she has completed a
second degree in accounting from the University
of Wyoming and is now
working as an accountant for an insurance firm in Dallas.
Ricky was also born in Siloam Springs, and he,
too, attended
school in
Springdale, Arkansas, and the Pine Tree School in Longview, Texas. He attended
one semester at Southern Illinois University and then returned to
Texas
where he earned an Associate degree in drafting from Kilgore
Junior
College
in Kilgore, Texas. He has worked
for several engineering firms as a
draftsman and as an Electrical Project Trainee for Ling Industries
in
Dallas,
Texas. On February 24,
1984, he married Kathy, a divorcee with a four-year
old son, Jeremy. He now
lives in. Plano, Texas.
- Melvin K. Anderson, 1984
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