Anderson Family

ANDERSON, QUACKENBUSH, MORAVEK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/22/2015 at 11:18:11

Monona County History
1982

Anderson Family, p 91

Vera Margaret Anderson Quackenbush was born to Orlando Curt Anderson and Mary Moravek on April 14, 1913 at Castana, Iowa. Orlando Curt Anderson born October 26, 1870 in Ohio, died February 1, 1958, was one of the original homesteaders in western Nebraska. He was united in marriage with Mary Moravek at Harrison, Nebraska whose family had emigrated to the United States from Moravia in Czechoslovakia. To this union were born five children; Mrs. Lucille Hervey, Mrs. Leona Paine, Mrs. Vera Quackenbursh, all of Onawa; Antone Anderson of Whiting and Joseph, address unknown. His son Antone has farmed the family acreage with his son-in-law, Gary Sherrill, who joined him in recent years. The five grandchildren of Orlando Anderson are George Anderson of Ashland, Nebraska, (deceased); Robert M. Paine of Alamogordo, New Mexico; Mrs. M. Kaye Bordeaus de Noyant, Santa Monica California and Paris, France; Mrs. Dixie Sherrill of Whiting; and Darrell Anderson of Alan, Texas. There was one brother Alva of Whiting.

Mrs. Vera Quackenbush has been the sole surviving resident in Monona County of the Quackenbush family tradition of helping the physically handicapped. Much credit is given to her remarkable devotion and care of Van during his 16 years of illness. She has been a member of the Eastern Star and the First Christian Church, a Charter member of the country club where she was actively involved with providing monthly dances for the county teenagers during the early 1950s.

The only daughter of Van and Vera Quackenbush, Mary Kay was born March 12, 1936 in Sioux City. Spending her early years in Whiting later moving to Onawa attended Onawa High School. She left for Stephens College in 1954. Kaye later attended Morningside College in Sioux City graduating in 1975 in art education. That same year she was honored to be in the Miss America contest for Miss Iowa, being represented as Miss Sioux City. She received her Master’s Degree in Art Education from Arizona State University in 1966. She had the first art education television program in the United States with the Ford Foundation Grant in Des Moines in 1960. Having taught art in the public schools of Des Moines, IA and Phoenix, Arizona she returned to Iowa State University with an assistantship in applied design. In Ames she met Jean-Luc Bordeaux de Noyant of Paris, France whom she married on December 22, 1965. From this union one daughter was born October 5, 1969. Vanessa Therese. Dr. Jean-Luc Bordeaux (Ph.D. from U.C.L.A.) has been associated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Malibu, and guest Curator at the Louvre in Paris, France and at the Chateau de Versailles, France. He is the author of numerous scholarly studies in art History and art criticism in the fields of contemporary art and old master paintings. He presently has completed a two volumes publication on Francois Le Moyne (1688-1737) and organized countless exhibitions of national and international scope. He received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University in Ames.

Jean-Luc and Mary Kaye Bordeaux have been associated for the past ten years with the California State University Northridge campus. Jean-Luc, director to the art gallery and full-professor of art history and Mary Kaye with the department of General Studies in art education. Recently Mary Kaye has become active as an art consultant for architects and interior decorators and is currently involved with the research for a forthcoming book on French glass (1920-1930).