2000—Robertsons

As one might expect, both Robertsons are very musical (he’s a pianist; she plays strings—viola, if I recall aright) and I quickly recruited him as my assistant choir director.

Turns out that I was able to reciprocate with a similarly faith-promoting anecdote that connects the Robertson and Anderson families over a span of several decades.

As I’ve remarked before, our Pappy, H Duane Anderson, was the first of his family to attend college. Growing up as he did in the Great Depression, it speaks impressively of him and of his family that they didn’t just shrug that ambition off to a more prosperous generation, as many did.

Grandpa Francis Emmanuel Anderson worked as paymaster at the coal mine at Rains, Carbon County, Utah. I’ve been told that, since there was no money to pay anybody, this was neither a demanding nor a remunerative occupation. Our indomitable Grandma Anna Eloese Poulsen Anderson actually supported the family by cooking for 300 miners under a piece of corrugated iron, on poles.

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