A Mississippi Genealogy & History Collection
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brooklyn Baptist Church for Robert Chester Anderson, former resident of Brooklyn, who died at 9:45 p.m. Friday at his home in Biloxi. He was 60 years old.
Rites will be conducted by a Reverand Hodges of Biloxi and Rev. J.D. Aycock of Gulfport. Burial will be in Brooklyn Cemetery.
Mr. Anderson moved from Brooklyn to Biloxi eight years ago. He was a civil service employee at Keesler Air Force Base. His death followed an illness of several months.
Mr. Anderson was a veteran of World War I, a Mason and a member of First Baptist Church of Biloxi. When he lived in Brooklyn he was a member of the Baptist church there and was a chaplain of the Brooklyn American Legion Post.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Maudie Anderson of Biloxi, three sons, Erskin H. Anderson of Sylvania, OH, Ulen H. Anderson of the Navy, Everette E. Anderson an Air Force member stationed at Scott Field, IL; three daughters, Mrs. Lloyd J. Smith of Fort Worth, TX, Mrs. Clyde Lott of Hattiesburg and Mrs. Frances Haynie of Gulfport; six grandchildren; three brothers, Hubert of HAttiesburg, Victor and Eugen Anderson of Brooklyn, and a sister, Mrs. Lulu Carnes of Brooklyn.
