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OBITJohn Lonzo AndersonJohn Lonzo Anderson, age 88, died April 23, 1993, in San Marcos.Until Mr. Anderson entered Deer Creek Nursing Center in Wimberley and then the Hays County Nursing Home in San Marcos, he and his wife Adrienne were residents of Wimberley Hills.Mr. Anderson was a writer who put himself through Harvard University starting with $30 in his pocket and ending with a degree in English. A writer all his life, Mr.Anderson is best known forDrums.which after extensive research in the Archives of the Danish West Indies Company in Copenhagen was published in 1975, it is a story based in the Virgin Islands. In his will, Mr. Anderson assigned royalties from the book, which was recently re-published in hard cover and paperback, to the St. John School of Arts in the Virgin Islands.Over a 50-year period, John and Adrienne (Dean) Anderson collaborated on children's books which he wrote and she illustrated. Under the pen name Lonzo Anderson, Mr. Anderson wrote Zeb.Biddle and the Birds Two Hundred Rabbits, among others.Mr. Anderson spoke three languages and traveled extensively while researching his books. He leaves behind an unfinished manuscript of the conversations of two men trying to understand how each other's mindswork.Mr. Anderson was bom in 1905 in Ellijay, Georgia where his ashes will be placed near the graves of his parents. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Adrienne Adams Anderson who lives atCamlu in San Marcos.
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Wimberley Wednesday View
Wimberley, Texas, US
Wed, May 05, 1993
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