10-03-03
Obituaries
Marshall News Messenger


 Robert Lamont Anderson 

 Robert Lamont Anderson, 74, died at Memorial Hermann Hospital 
in Houston on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2003. The son of John W. and 
Grace Lamont Anderson, he was born in Arkadelphia, Ark., and 
finished high school there. 

 After two years (1946-48) with the U.S. Army in Japan, he 
attended Tulsa University, where he was a charter member of 
Sigma Chi fraternity, and worked for Dunn and Bradstreet while 
earning his degree in business administration, along with his 
Air Force ROTC commission. He later received his master's 
degree in business administration from North Texas University. 

 After a long association with Caterpillar Tractor Co., he 
elected to return to the South, particularly Texas, where in 
1959 he went with Southern Union Gas Co. in Dallas. While in 
Dallas, he served as president of the Purchasing Management 
Association of Dallas from 1974 to 1975. He was sent by 
Southern Union to attend Harvard University's Graduate School 
of Business Management. In 1976, Bob became one of Southern 
Union's vice presidents, in charge of its Gulf Coast Division, 
living in Port Arthur, where he was president of the Port 
Arthur Chamber of Commerce for a term, named to the board of 
directors at Allied Merchants Bank and president of Port 
Arthur's United Community Services in 1984. He also was on the 
board of directors for P.A. Industrial Development Corp. until 
his retirement in 1988, when he and his wife, Margaret, moved 
to Hot Springs Village, Ark., where they resided six years 
before moving to Longview in 1995. 

 Bob, or "Monte" as his friends knew him, was a longtime 
member of the Rotary Club, president of the Port Arthur Club 
and a Paul Harris Fellow. He was a member of First United 
Methodist Church and Longview's Antique Car Club. He had a 
passion for old cars and enjoyed restoring them to a like-new 
condition. 

 Besides his wife, Margaret, Bob is survived by three 
children, Robert Jr. of Austin and Laurie Hemming and Alice 
Butler, both of Dallas; three stepchildren, Margaret Clay 
Spears of Greenback, Tenn.; Byron Harrison Jr. of Knoxville, 
Tenn., and Jan A. Harrison of Harriman, Tenn.; two brothers, 
John W. Anderson of Russellville, Ark., and Albert Anderson of 
Greeley, Colo.; two grandchildren, Cassandra Grace Hemming and 
Cody Hemming of Dallas; and his brother and sister-in-law, Dr. 
William and Glenda Pearce of Longview. 

 A memorial service was held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, 
at the Welch Funeral & Memorial Center Chapel with Dr. Dan 
Miller officiating. 

 The family received friends following the service. 

 In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to a charity of 
choice.