Mrs. LeGene Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Groesbeck Journal, Newspaper for Groesbeck, Texas with Groesbeck, Texas real estate, antiques, news, and entertainment

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   Published on: 1/26/2002   Last Visited: 1/26/2002

   Funeral services for Mrs. LeGene Anderson, 78, of Waco, were conducted Friday afternoon, Jan. 18, at 3 o'clock in Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home Chapel in Mexia. The Rev. Max Burkhead, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in Mexia Cemetery. Mrs. Anderson, a Technical Writer/Journalist, was a member of First United Methodist Church, a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and a member of the League of Women Voters at Waco. She was born at Dew on May 4, 1923, and died Monday at Lifecare Specialty of Dallas. Mrs. Anderson, a 1940 graduate of Mexia High School, was preceded in death by her husband, Hal Anderson, and by her parents, Dock Williamson Lott and Loise McDonald Lott.
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   LeGene graduated from Westminster College-Tehuacana, and in October of 1943 received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas-Austin. The following month she had her first fulltime job as basement-store copywriter at Levy Brothers Department Store in Houston, launching what would become a 40-year writing career. In 1948-49 she returned to Austin to complete a Master of Journalism degree at U-T, remaining in Austin editing the monthly magazine published by the Texas Pharmaceutical Association. In 1953, LeGene transferred with the federal government to Fort McClellan, one of the Army's chemical warfare training centers, location in Anniston, Alabama. There she met Harold Lee Anderson of Manhattan, Kansas, who also was a technical writer and a World War II veteran.
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   LeGene transferred to the Information Division of the Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore. Eighteen months later she went to an information job at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Harford County.
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   LeGene remained in Harford County until 1967 when she transferred to a job with the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., and established residency in Arlington, Virginia. She retired in November of 1983, and in 2000 moved to Waco.
   
   Neva Jo Emerson Funeral Services Held on Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Neva Jo Evans Emerson, age 71, of New Waverly were held on Monday, January 21, at 1 p.m. in the Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home Chapel in Mexia.