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Former McKenzie Mayor, Gene Anderson, Died Monday
By Joel Washburn
washburn@mckenziebanner.com
Former McKenzie Mayor Gene Anderson died at 11:30 a.m. Monday, April 15 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville from pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church with Bro. Dennis Trull officiating. Burial will be in Carroll Memorial Gardens. Visitation was held Tuesday from 5:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Brummitt Funeral Home in McKenzie. Active in city government for twenty-five years, Mr. Anderson served as mayor from 1994 until 1998. He served as chairman of McKenzie Water Commission for 16 years, a position he held at the time of his death. He had been a long time member of First Baptist Church in McKenzie. He retired from AT&T as a systems engineer in 1989, after which he worked as owner and president of AAA Builders.
Mr. Anderson attended Hollow Rock-Bruceton school system and graduated from high school at Central High School in Bruceton. After graduation, he attended Engineering Institute in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Denver Tech in Denver, Colorado. He also attended Bethel College in McKenzie. He was also active with the youth of the community, having served as a baseball coach on different age levels for several years. He was elected president of the league two times, and president of the Booster Club for one term. For many years, he volunteered his time and services as the score keeper at McKenzie Rebel football games. In October 2000, Mr. Anderson was diagnosed as having a very rare type of cancer. In the spring of 2001, he was named honorary chairman for McKenzie's Relay For Life, a fund-raising event for the American Cancer Society.
Obituary [Source – Carroll County NEWS-LEADER]
Larry "Gene" Anderson 04/16/02 Larry “Gene” Anderson, 66, died Monday morning, April 15, at 11:30 a.m. at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville from pneumonia. He retired from AT&T as a system engineer in 1989. Since that time, he had worked as owner and president of AAA Builders. Mr. Anderson was very active in community activities, serving as chairman of the Water Board for 16 years, Alderman for four years, and Mayor for four years for the City of McKenzie. Mr. Anderson has been a longtime member of First Baptist Church in McKenzie. Services will be held today (Wednesday, April 17) at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with Bro. Dennis Trull officiating. Brummitt Funeral Home in McKenzie is in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Anderson is survived by his wife, Willie Mae Fitzgerald Anderson; a son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Dianne Anderson, and their two sons, Bruce and Clint; a son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Malissa Anderson, and their children, Mark II, Luke and Anna, all of McKenzie. Another son, Steven, preceded him death. He was also preceded in death by his father, James Wesley Anderson. Mr. Anderson is also survived by his mother, Florence Kizer Anderson of McKenzie; two brothers, James Fred Anderson of McKenzie and William Earl Anderson of Paris; and nephews and nieces.