Hank Anderson flys into the sunset

Vern “Hank” Anderson

OBITUARIES

Past EAA Chapter 31 President Hank Anderson’s obituary from the Register Guard.

A celebration of life will be held at 12:30 p.m. Jan.10 at the First Baptist Church in Eugene for Vern “Hank” Anderson of Eugene, who died Dec. 15 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was 74.

He was born Oct. 2, 1937, in Salt Lake City to Vern and Lorna Ence Anderson. He married Susan Higbie on July 17, 1960, in Salt Lake City to Vern and Lorna Ence Anderson. He married Susan Higbie on July 17, 1960, in Buhl, Idaho.

He graduated from Buhl High School in 1955 and graduated with a degree in animal reproduction from Colorado State University in 1960. He attended the University of New South Wales in Australia as a Fulbright scholar. He worked at the Colorado State Extension Service and earned a doctorate of veterinarian medicine from Colorado State University in 1968.

He owned and operated Anderson Veterinary Clinic in Eugene for 42 years. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Lori Ramsthel of Bend; a son, Trevor of Eugene; a sister, Yvonne Anderson of Bluffdale, Utah; a brother, Michael of Dallas, Texas, and Papua, New Guinea; and five grandchildren. A son, Will Anderson, died April 13, 2011.

Arrangements by Sunset Hills Cemetery, Funeral Home & Crematorium in Eugene. In lieu of flowers, remembrances to Samaritan’s Purse.

It doesn’t mention his having built his own RV-6 and was very active giving rides and introducing a great many people to sport aviaion. He was a great guy and good friend to a bunch of people.

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