NDERSON, Raymond Eugene

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, February 21, 1998 at the Aurora First Christian Church. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery. OBITUARY: Raymond Anderson Raymond Eugene Anderson, the son of Andrew and Emma (Akerson) Anderson, was born at Aurora, Nebraska, on January 21, 1919, and died at Aurora, Nebraska, on February 20, 1998, at the age of 79 years and 29 days. He lived in Aurora the first six years of his life, then lived in Chicago for three years. He returned to Aurora, until age 16, then lived for two years at Pleasant Dale, Nebraska, where he graduated from high school. After a few years in Cherry Valley, Illinois, Ray attended the University of Illinois, participating in the ROTC program from 1939 to 1943, and graduated with a BA degree on January 24, 1943. With his ROTC preparation he then attended Officer Candidate School at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army. On May 27, 1943, he entered the U.S. Army, and was assigned duty both in the United States and in Europe. He returned from Europe and was discharged from active duty on January 15, 1946. On May 28, 1943, he was united in marriage to Jessie Ann Kernodle in St. Louis, Missouri. After his discharge from the military, they returned to Aurora where they have made their home since that time. He was widely known for custom harvesting, extensive land leveling projects, and many other agriculturally related endeavors. He was preceded in death by his parents and four sisters: Elvera Johnson, Edith Johnson, Ruby Engelthaler, and Celia Dorman. Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife Jessie Ann of Aurora; his son Dr. James B. Anderson and his wife Sandra of Aurora; one daughter Rae Ann Anderson Weymouth and her husband Terry of Ann Arbor, Michigan; three sisters Helyn Williams of Broadview, Illinois, Dorothy Siegl of Chicago, Illinois, and Marilyn Marwick of Skokie, Illinois; four grandchildren, Laurel Marlatt and her husband Rob of Kearney, Lesley Hammerschmidt and her husband Eric of Lincoln, and Elizabeth and Edward Weymouth of Ann Arbor, Michigan.