Obituaries
May 12, 2003
LONGVIEW NEWS-JOURNAL


Everett Gilbert Andress 
Withers Family Cemetery, Buna

Graveside services for Everett Gilbert Andress, 95, of Longview will 
be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Withers Family 
Cemetery in Buna. Burial will be under the direction of Rader 
Funeral Home of Longview. Mr. Andress died Sunday morning, May 11, 
2003, in a Longview nursing facility. 

Mr. Andress was born March 29, 1908, in Brookeland to H.H. and Viola 
Andress. After 47 years with Magnolia Oil, later known as Mobil Oil, 

Mr. Andress retired as a foreman. He enjoyed the outdoors, 
particularly fishing and gardening. He also enjoyed his home life, 
both indoors and outdoors. Mr. Andress and his wife were very active 
in senior citizen activities. They attended senior citizen dances 
all over East Texas. He was very instrumental in establishing the 
Green Street Recreation Center in Longview. He was a mason for 70 
years and a member of the Longview Masonic Lodge No. 404 and was a 
Shriner. Mr. Andress was a Baptist. He was preceded in death by one 
daughter, Betty Lou Whitley; his parents; one son-in-law, W.A. 
Phillips; two brothers; and one sister. 

Those left to cherish his memories are his loving wife of 76 years, 
Gladys Withers Andress of Longview; one daughter, Gladys Ruth 
Phillips of Victoria; one brother, Earl Andress of Canute, Okla.; 
one brother-in-law, J.W. Peckinpaugh; three grandchildren and their 
spouses, Pattie and Geoffrey Willbanks of Tyler, Bill and Medina 
Phillips of Victoria and John and Cindy Phillips of Austin; four 
great-grandchildren, John Wayne Phillips, James Allen Phillips, 
Jennifer Marie Phillips and Clinton Willbanks; and numerous nieces 
and nephews. 

A memorial guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com.