Obituary - Kenneth E. Anderson

Kenneth E. Anderson, 84, Moscow

Kenneth E. Anderson, a retired area farmer, died Tuesday evening, Nov. 7, 2000, at Gritman Medical Center. He was 84.

Kenny was a resident of Moscow his entire life, farmed his family's Last Pagestead ranch for 30 years before retiring and was an active participant in area organizations throughout his life.

He was born to Oscar and Minnie Evans Anderson at Moscow on Aug. 21, 1916. He attended Moscow schools and the University of Idaho.

He married Doris French of Rupert, Idaho, on Dec. 10, 1939, at Walla Walla. From 1940 to 1952, along with his father, he owned and operated Moscow Builders and Growers, a pea processing plant on the Troy Road. In 1952, he moved his family to the Thorncreek Ranch, south of Moscow on the Uniontown cut-off, where he farmed until 1982.

He was an active member of the Idaho Wheat Growers Association. Mr. Anderson also was a member of the Moscow Masonic Lodge, Calam Shrine Temple, Moscow Elks Lodge No. 249 and the Moscow Chamber of Commerce.

His Calam Shrine activities included serving on its divan from 1965 until his election as potentate in 1974. He was a founding member of the Cayuse Riders in 1955, a hard-riding precision horsemanship unit that performed in rodeos and fairs from Calgary to Las Vegas. He served with the food caravan for the Shriners Hospital for Children in Spokane and was chairman of endowments, wills and gifts for the hospital's board of directors for many years. His Masonic ties included 20 years of active involvement with the Moscow Demolay Chapter as "dad" adviser and later as northern Idaho regional adviser.

Mr. Anderson has been a founding advisory member of the Good Samaritan Retirement Village since its opening in 1976. Since 1989, he has been active as an ambassador in the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and received the Spirit of the Chamber award for the past two years.

Surviving are his wife of 60 years, Doris of Moscow; two sons, Jerry Anderson of Fairfax, Va., and Scott Anderson of Los Angeles; a daughter, Sue Anderson of Portland, Ore.; two sisters, Audrey Cox of Boise and Lois Grey of Idaho Falls; and two granddaughters, Crystal Polis of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Tricia Golsen of Bethesda, Md.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Short's Funeral Chapel in Moscow. The Rev. Gordon Braun, chaplain of Good Samaritan Village, with members of Paradise Lodge No. 17, AF&AM, will conduct the service. Private inurnment will be at the Moscow Cemetery.

The family suggests memorials to the Shriners Hospital for Children, P.O. Box 2472, Spokane 99210-2472 or to Good Samaritan Village, 640 N. Eisenhower, Moscow.

Lewiston Tribune, Thursday, November 9, 2000
Transcribed by Kerry Kasza

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