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James "Jim" Edward Anderson (1949-Current)Colorado |
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Content:Age: Nickname: Jim Occupation: Graphic Artist State: Colorado # of Children: 2 |
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1949 Jim Anderson 
4 Generations: Luella May, Charlie , Shirley and Jim
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1949 Jim Anderson with
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1949 Jim Anderson with mother, Shirley, and Maternal Grandparents
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1953 Anderson Family  |
1957 Anderson Boys as Davy Crockett
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Parents - Bill & Shirley Anderson
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1966 - Bob & Jim
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1973 "Hippy" boys with Dad,
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1988 - Jim & Bob with Cousins,
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1989 Jim & Leslie's Wedding Mary Jane Wilkie |
2005 Shirley with her grandchildren:
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2010
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"Jim was born May 23, 1949 in Denver at St. Luke’s Hospital. Jim and Bob were as different as night
and day but each enjoyable in his own way. Jim
was the quiet studious one. As a small child he was always putting
things together (tinker toys when he was real little, later model
airplanes) or reading a book. He was always very curious. One of his
first expressions was “What’s that?”. He had a set of alphabet blocks
and was always asking “What’s that?” and before long he knew his
alphabet. He did the same with every car he saw and he soon knew all
the makes of cars. He learned to talk early and his words were easily
understood except for one expression which he kept saying - something
like “Dubbyarsen”. One day we were in the cleaners and I asked for the
clothes for W. T. Anderson and he immediately said “Dubbyarsen -
Dubbyarsen!”. Mystery solved - it was like he was explaining to me
what he had been trying to tell me. Once when we were in Roswell in a
store a man asked him how old he was. He said, “I’m two and my Mother
is 25". Aren’t kids wonderful! He excelled in school but never
bothered to tell us about the awards he received - some of them I
learned about years later when a friend of his told me. Jim was very
artistic - always drawing on anything that was available. In school he
finished his tests quickly and then drew pictures on the borders of his
papers. His teachers always delighted in showing me these papers at
parent-teacher conferences. In Jr. High he learned to play the clarinet
and was in the band. His lifetime career would be that of a Graphic
Artist - first working on the school paper at C.U., doing freelance for
various magazines and eventually working for Dex Media (yellow pages for
the phone book - or in his words, the “Phone Book Factory”). After
Jim graduated from high school he went to the University of Colorado in
Boulder. He worked part-time to help put himself through college.
He was always very conservative and learned to live on a little bit of
money. MY LIFE STORY - SHIRLEY MARIE VARDIMAN ANDERSON Emily (Jim’s daughter) turned 20 this year. In September she will be starting her third year at
University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. It is a school geared towards teaching and
her goal is to be a 4th grade teacher. She talks of moving to the northwest part of the country
when she graduates, work awhile, and then get her Master’s Degree. |
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