Published by admin on Thu, 09/09/2021 - 8:54am
William LeRoy Anderson was born in Dec. 23, 1933, Ethel, Wash., to Harold and Elsie Anderson. There were three boys born to this family.
Bill was in the Air Force, where he played football, then served in the Korean War for three and a half years. He was then a logger and high climber in Alaska, Washington and Oregon.
After moving from Alaska to South Dakota he met and married Gerldine (Pooley-Woodward) in 1963 and helped raise her seven children. Bill worked at the coal mines at Kerr-McGee and Jacobs Ranch, in Wyoming as a supervisor for 20 years.