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Dr. Nevin Boyd Anderson (1969)

ANDERSON, BURGER, IRWIN, POTTER, STRATE, WAY

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 4/4/2006 at 11:08:10

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
March 26, 1969
Page 5, Column 5

DR. BOYD ANDERSON DIES IN ARKANSAS

Dr. N. Boyd Anderson, a native of St. Charles who became a distinguished Des Moines physician and surgeon, died March 17 at a hospital in Fayetteville, Ark., following a heart attack. He was 74 years of age.

Doctor Anderson was born in St. Charles Nov. 20, 1894, a son of Hugh P. and Anna Irwin Anderson. He graduated from St. Charles High School in 1912, and from the college of medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1920. He served his interneship and surgical residency at Iowa Lutheran hospital in Des Moines, and later spent a year at various hospitals in Europe.

He was a practicing physician and surgeon in Des Moines from 1922 until 1959, when he and his wife moved to Springdale, Ark.

Doctor Anderson was a member of the Iowa National Guard and during World War II served in the North African and European war zones. He retired with the rank of colonel.

He was a member of the United Presbyterain church.

He was married in 1922 to Twila Lea Potter, who survives him. He also leaves three sons, Robert B. Anderson of Moline, Ill, Hugh M. Anderson of Des Moines, and Richard G. Anderson of El Reno, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Frances Burger of Marion; 12 grandchildren; two brothers, Gerald H. Anderson of St. Charles and Dr. Robert E. Anderson of Chariton; and two sisters, Mrs. Amanda Way of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Margaret Strate of Parkersburg, W.Va.

Funeral services were held March 20 in Springdale, with burial in the U.S. military cemetery at Fayetteville.
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