Carson Blane Anderson

ANDERSON, RAYMAN, KIRKWOOD, CHANDERS, HARRIS

Posted By: Tara (email)
Date: 6/26/2009 at 13:22:16

Carson Blane Anderson, 34, best known as Blane, died Friday in an aircraft accident near Grinnell, Iowa.

He was born Sept. 13, 1972, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., to H. Eugene (Gene) and Joy Rayman Anderson of West Burlington, Iowa. On April 22, 2000, he married Heidi Lynn Kirkwood in a farm- porch celebration in Oxford, Iowa.

A 16-year-resident of Iowa City, he was the chief pilot for Jet Air, Inc., based at Iowa City Airport. As a courier for the Organ Donor Network, Blane transported doctors, patients and organs for transplant recipients.

Prior to that he was a truck driver for the Trucking Department of Eldon C. Stutsman Inc., Hills location, a deli and bakery cook for New Pioneer Co-op in Iowa City, a guitar teacher at West Music in Iowa City and a bus driver for the Iowa City public schools.

Besides his family and flying, his passion was making music. He played and recorded with local bands, most frequently Firewood Revival, as well as Mad for Cheese, Eric Straumanis and the Douglas Leaders, the Low Gravity Band, Big Daddy Sugar Snake, Butter, Irene and the Mad River Band and Shoe Money. He began studying guitar at the age of 7 with Terry Hinsely in Burlington. He was a carpenter and a maker of wood toys.

Blane was a 1990 graduate of Burlington High School and a 1994 graduate of the University of Iowa, where he majored in religion, English and Spanish.

His daughter Ruby Jo, 6, recalls, “He was my favorite daddy and I could do anything with him. Once in the garage Daddy made me a wooden doll out of wood.”

“He would always help me build ships,” says his son, Eli Crow, 6. “We would always ride bikes and build model airplanes together.”

Blane is survived by his, wife Heidi, twins Ruby Jo and Eli and daughter, RosaMae and his parents, Gene and Joy Anderson; a sister, Kiki Anderson(Coy) Chanders and two nieces of Lafayette, Colorado; his maternal grandparents, Robert and Harriette Rayman of Elberon; his paternal grandparents Winifred and Fred Harris of Burlington; three uncles and aunts, seven cousins and Lincoln, his faithful dog.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Anderson Children Education Scholarship fund, mail to Burlington Bank & Trust, P.O. Box 728 Burlington, IA 52601 or The Southern Poverty Law Center.