"The Music Man"
Ted Leon Anderson, 88, passed away May 12, 2004.
Ted was born in Ephraim, Utah, January 18, 1916, to Theodore Hoyt and Agnes Olson Anderson. He graduated from Snow College, Brigham Young University and did post graduate studies at the University of Wyoming and University of Utah.
Ted enjoyed life to the fullest. Music was Ted's great love. He taught music in Burlington, Cowley, Lyman, and Evanston, Wyoming, and Jordan School District, in Utah. He loved teaching band, orchestra and instrumental music to students of all ages. He came to Utah to work for Daynes Music Company in 1951. He played in dance bands wherever he lived or taught.
Ted sang with the LDS Tabernacle Choir and served 18 years in that position. He was a choir leader and music conductor in many wards and stakes. He served as a counselor in the High Priest Quorum and was a counselor in the Bishopric of Richards 2nd Ward, Sugar House Stake.
His wife Leora Tippets has been by his side since their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple on August 28, 1940. Ted has spent the last 20 years suffering from the tragic effects of Alzheimer's disease. All who knew him before this terrible disease took control, loved him for his warm sense of humor, his patience and sensitivity, and his ability to make friends with everyone with whom he came in contact. He was always the life of the party and had a funny story for every occasion.
Survived by his beautiful wife, Leora; children, Kathleen (Don Gold), David (Laraine Anderson), Lorilee (Ed Pearson), and Patrice (David Godfrey); brother, C. Hoyt Anderson (Birmingham, MI); sisters, Alma Wanlass (Manti, UT); Bula Fitzgerald (Redlands, CA); and 16 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, 13 step-grandchildren and 25 step-great-grandchildren.
Many thanks to the staff of the Arlington Hills Care Center for their love and dedication for Ted. He has been a resident there for the past 14 years.
Funeral services will be held Monday, May 17, 2004, 11 a.m., at the Richards Ward, 855 Garfield Ave. Friends and family visit Sunday evening from 6-7 p.m. at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple, and Monday from 9:45-10:45 a.m. prior to services at the ward. Interment: Murray City Cemetery.