Janet Barbara Tait Anderson
James Nathan Anderson
Rebecca Anderson
Marc Duane Anderson
Jared Brent Anderson
Jennie Tait
Jim Tait
Kin: Brent’s “Thicket”

Duane Brent Anderson
& Janet Barbara Tait Anderson
Brent will want to assemble his own account; so, I’ll just hit a few high points emphasizing the times and places we’ve shared most directly. You’ve seen a lot of him, as I’ve related our childhood times in San Bernardino, and our wondrous Christmas reunion in Geneva and Paris. There’ll be more, when I arrive at 1980, when we Arlingtonian exiles (as our kin tended to see us) rejoiced as Brent and his family moved in just down the street. And, should I live so long, when I get around to events of the 21st Century, when we both live in Utah.
In 1968, soon after our Christmas gathering, Brigham Young University achieved its primary purpose in bringing Janet
and Brent together. As you may discern, they got along very well.

No nine-year nuptial lead-up for them: they wed in the Oakland Temple (Janet
was an Oakland girl) on June 5, 1969: the wedding anniversary of Pappy and Mammy, and also that of Grandpa and Grandma Anderson.
With old pre-mission friend (and returned Paris missionary) Dave Hutchings and his Marilyn, (Janet and Brent made an active and picturesque BYU foursome.

Can’t recall that anybody has ever told me why Dave and Marilyn are Bonnie and Clyde in this portrait. That’s an impressive cigar. Nor just who the angelic-looking Brent and (Janet might be, with their “Stolen Guitar Case.” College life clearly wasn’t just books and solemnities.
By this time, Pappy and Norma Pardoe had obviously become acquainted and perhaps married: the venue is the Blue Mansion of Norma’s distinguished and dramatic parents,   T Earl and Kathryn Pardoe, in Provo. I’m a bit unclear on the precise calendar. I think both couples (yea, all three) were married by this time; maybe somebody will correct me.
Same place, outdoors, this time, on familially-historic Pardoe turf. The graduating couple isn’t delighted, or anything…

At left, below: Jennie and Jim Tait, (Janet’s parents; perhaps the best likenesses of them that I possess. Pappy and Norma, of course, at right.
Mimi informs me that Rick’s adorable counterpart here is Oakland’s own lovely Elaina Clyde. Thuryle, her mom, served with the youth of the Oakland 4th ward. As (Janet’s best friend (and eventual successor), Mimi would normally have been in the line, except that her Michelle was born in Canada just a week earlier.

Anyway, here’s the Littlest Returned French Missionary, still charming them in Oakland as he did in Paris. Good thing Brent and (Janet were themselves so cute, or the competition could have become a mite touchy…

Having observed the obligatory legalities, we had by this time formally adopted Erik, and so he was sealed to us in the same temple session that united Brent and (Janet. The disturbance he made there is part of his story, not this one. Valerie doesn’t remember it at all. I think she’s blocked it out.
As I remarked earlier, I’ll resist the temptation to empiétine upon the history that belongs properly to my beloved baby brother, except as our life-lines have intersected and intertwined—not nearly frequently enough to suit me. For now, I’ll just introduce Brent’s and (Janet’s children with a couple of photos that reliably melt me into a puddle.
Younger versions of The Becca and Our Nuffin.
You get this one, only because I couldn’t imagine leaving it out.
Nathan (James Nathan, after his Grandpa Jim Tait; nicknamed without prejudice “Nuffin”)
Rebecca (always and still, among us, “The Becca”)
Marc Duane (after his Grandpa H Duane Anderson; less formally, “The Possum”)
Cute, distinctive kids who’ve turned into strong, sweet adults.
After Brent, (Janet, Nathan, Becca, and Marc moved to Batesville, Indiana (note Nathan’s Batesville Kiwanis t-shirt), they did return now and then visiting us at Timbaloo. Can’t say whether this occasion coincided with any of the three birthdays, but we seized the opportunity to celebrate all three, with color-coded candles.

Jared Brent Anderson, Brent’s and (Janet’s fourth child, entered this world in Cincinnati on 2 August 1981, died the same day, and is buried in Batesville, next to his mother, who died 18 November 1989 of a longstanding liver disorder. The doctors had told her she’d never have kids. Shows how much they know…

Our Toad and Nuffin, preparing somebody’s birthday,
in the kitchen at Timbaloo. Could be 1980, or maybe 1981.1
1The slide says it was processed Apr 81.

Duane Brent Anderson
& Janet Barbara Tait
On stone wall for Fourth of July parade in Lincoln
Visited Karps in New City
Janet!
Marriage in Oakland
At Taits’
BYU graduation
Met us in New Orleans
Brent an Army Chaplain at Fort Hood
4th of July at Lincoln
Kids enjoyed cousin-proximity
1981—Grandma’s Ninetieth!
1981—Portraits
Moved to Batesville
Four-generation gathering
Hosted Arlington invasion again
James Nathan Anderson
and Cyndie Lee Hardman
In Ogden, with Anderson great-grandparents, Becca, cousins
On stone wall for Fourth of July parade in Lincoln
In Arlington
Crokinole, birthday cake
Rejoicing and Genevieve
1981—Grandma’s Ninetieth!
1981—Back Yard
1982—Reunion in Batesville
1981—Patriots’Day
Talent Show
Triple birthday cake in Arlington
Came to Mammy’s centenary gathering in East Mill Creek Amelia’s Blessing, 2011
Rebecca Anderson and Scott Wilhite
In Ogden, with Anderson great-grandparents, Nathan, cousins
On stone wall for Fourth of July parade in Lincoln
In Arlington
Rejoicing and Genevieve
Christmas
1981—Grandma’s Ninetieth!
1982—Reunion in Batesville
Talent Show
Towels on the bed
Triple birthday cake in Arlington
At Possum-picnic in Orem
Marc Duane Anderson and Sarah Stubbs
Dining al fresco chezKarps in New York
Brent!
Brent’s and Janet’s marriage and Erik’s sealing in Oakland
At the Taits’
In Provo for graduation
On stone wall for Fourth of July parade in Lincoln
In Arlington
Crokinole, birthday cake
Rejoicing and Genevieve
1981—Grandma’s Ninetieth!
1981—Back Yard
1981—Portraits
1982—Reunion in Batesville
1983—Reunion in Batesville | Talent Show
Talent Show
At Possum-picnic in Orem
A Precious Juxtaposition
2011—Amelia’s Blessing, 2011
Triple birthday cake in Arlington
Came to Mammy’s centenary gathering in East Mill Creek
Jared Brent Anderson
Jared Brent Anderson, Brent’s and (Janet’s fourth child, entered this world in Cincinnati on 2 August 1981, died the same day, and is buried in Batesville, next to his mother, who died 18 November 1989 of a longstanding liver disorder. The doctors had told her she’d never have kids. Shows how much they know…
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