SENT FROM CAY MERRYMAN
SENT FROM CAY MERRYMAN
Still born.
SENT FROM CAY MERRYMAN
SENT FROM HARRY ANDERSON
S/o Joseph M. Anderson and Flavia Van Arsdale
Carl Oliver Anderson was born in Darlington, Ind to Flavia Van Arsdale and Joseph M. Anderson on July 18, 1888. WHile just a boy he worked in a glass factory and a rubber factory and various other jobs. Carl's formal education stopped with the end of the Third Grade which was not uncommon those days.
His life and happenings are hazy in Harry's memory until the spring of 1925. He worked for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. In the spring of 1925 he went to Miama, Flor. where he worked for Southeastern Bell Telephone Company. He was there until the devastating Hurricane struck Miami in the fall of 1926. Carl helped with the Hurricane damage work unil the early spring of 1927. He then returned to Indiana to move his family to a hot and dry climate per a doctor's prescription for Harry who wa plagued with respiratory problems due to the caod dust and dampness in Ind. He had planned to mvoe his family to Florida until a move to a different climate came about. In April of 1927 Carl started out with his family to Ariz. When they arrived in Texas and found the climate that had been ordered they decided to stay. They settled in Fort Worth, Texas and Carl went to work immediately for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. He worked on the test Board and wwas later promoted to assignment clerk and was considered the best in the area. He retired in 1953 after 26 years with Southwestern Bell. Carl was a self educated man and a self made man. He remoldeled his home at 3208 James Ave, Fort Worth, Texas, and made some very nice peices of furniture. A lovely dressing table and stool for Harry's wife, bookcases, stools, cabinets and was a whiz at furniture repairs.
He was an avid hunter and fisherman, was active in the Masonic Lodge and was a Knight Templar, held officer positions and was very actrive in the Lodge. Also in teh Telephone Pioneers of America, he passed away in his sleep of a coronary on Nov 1, 1961 and was buried in Full Knight Templar Uniform in Laurel Land Cem, in South Fort Worth, Texas. The full Masonic Graveside Service was performed at the burial site.