Roy Howard Anderson

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LeRoy Anderson is a co-owner of Kern Funeral Home along with his children, Connie Le Sourd and Eric (Rick) Anderson.
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Later, in 1950 LeRoy and a partner bought the business from Mr. Kern.
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LeRoy was a licensed funeral director and apprentice embalmer until his retirement in 2003 after 56 years of service.LeRoy, a life long Skagit County resident is a member of Salem Lutheran Church, Vasa Lodge, and long time member of the Hugo Helmer Accordion Band.

Connie Le Sourd is co-owner of Kern Funeral Home along with her father, LeRoy Anderson and her brother, Rick Anderson.

Born on Fir Island, Anderson is owner and operator of Kern Funeral Home in Mount Vernon.The first Kern Funeral home was started in La Conner in 1937, he said.

Roy Anderson Buildings/Facilities

Roy Anderson, was a pilot/co-pilot with the 100th and 70th BS, 42nd BG(M), from March 1944 through April 1945.

Roy H Anderson
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Roy Howard Anderson of Conway died at Skagit Valley Hospital on Monday, June 13, following a brief illness.
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Roy was born in Conway at the family home on October 19, 1908, the second son of Swedish immigrants Bert I. and Hannah M. Anderson.
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Roy had three brothers and one sister; Lloyd, Earl, Robin, and Margaret.After his fathers untimely death in 1920 when Roy was just 12, he, his mother, and the other children elected to stick together and continue to run the family farm, which is still in family ownership today.

He attended Conway Grade School where his father had been one of the original three school directors.He graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1927 with a scholarship to Whitman College, but decided he was happiest on the farm and chose to make his lifes work there.He was also employed by Rogers Brothers Seed Company from 1930 to 1937.

During the 1920s and 30s, Roy and his brothers were well known locally as the Anderson Brothers Quartet; they sang at many civic and social events including the newly opened Lincoln Theatre, once on a radio program in Seattle, and at the opening of the Deception Pass Bridge in 1935.A local news article written at the time states, "The Anderson Brothers Quartet are four youngsters, two only recently graduated from high school and two still in high school, who are successfully running the family farm since the death of their father, and who can sing as good as they can farm!"

In 1954, Roy and his brother Earl bought the Holte Farm on Conway Hill which adjoins the Anderson farm and spent the rest of his life there raising beef cattle and various crops, eventually buying out his brothers interest.
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Roy was a member of the First Methodist Church from his childhood and became a member of St. Pauls Episcopal Church at the time of his marriage.In recent years he and his family joined the Fir Conway Lutheran Church.

One of his greatest joys was flying, and he spent over 40 years as a private pilot and loved sharing this joy with his family and friends.He was also a charter member of the Washington Flying Farmers Association.