ALEXANDER MURRAY ANDERSON

Burial of the late Alexander Murray Anderson 91, Sherbrooke, Guysborough County, was held December 7 in Riverside Cemetery, Sherbrooke.

Mr. Anderson died December 4, 2019, in High Crest Nursing Home, Sherbrooke. 

Born September 28, 1928, he was a son of the late R.C. ‘Bob’ and Ida L. (Morris) Anderson. He was a longtime resident of Sherbrooke. He loved the woods of Nova Scotia, where he began his career as a youth tallying 4 ft. pulp loaded on to ships near the mouth of the St Mary’s River.  He attended Kings Edgehill and the Maritime Ranger School and received his BSc.F. from the University of New Brunswick and MSc.F. from New York State University in Syracuse. For a brief while, he was hired as a district forester for Lands and Forests in Queens County and subsequently, in 1961, moved to Port Hawkesbury to work at the new pulp mill, which opened the following year.  Over his career, he lived in New Glasgow and Antigonish.  He served as regional manager for the Mainland and woodlands manager for Eastern Mainland and later as wood procurement officer until his retirement in 1992. He was a member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry since 1956 and received the CIF-IFC Golden Year Club Award in 2007. He was also a long-serving member of the Society of American Foresters, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Nova Scotia Forest Fiber Producers as well as past director of St. Mary’s River Association and a legacy member with The Nova Scotia Nature Trust. He enjoyed travel, his woodlots and his camp at Big Gaspereaux.

He is survived by two sons, Alexander R. ‘Sandy’ (Anthonia ‘Toosje’), James E.; daughter, Suzanne R.; five grandchildren, John, Andrew, Emma, Eugene, Reid; five great-grandchildren, Ian, Katie, Nicholas, John, Alexander; two brothers, R. Wentworth (Marcia), Alick G. (Barbara).

He was predeceased by his wife, E. Mildred (Kaiser); son, Maj. Ian Wentworth, RNZA; brother, N. Robert Anderson (Edith); second wife, Aleah (Palmer Lomas).  

He had an extended family of step-children, Andy and Christy-Ann (deceased), (Malcolm); step-grandchildren, Tony and Sarah (Eric), Adam, Mary (Jamie) and Amelia and their children; Poppy, Theo, Ellie and Owen.

Memorial donations may be made to the VON, St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital, Sherbrooke, or a charity of choice.

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