Obituary for Deroy Thomas Anderson

Graveside services for Deroy Thomas Anderson, 73, of Mission will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 8, 2010, at Terry County Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Patrick Hamilton officiating. Memorial services will follow at 11am at Plains First Baptist Church under the direction of Brownfield Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Brownfield Funeral Home.

Deroy passed away Saturday, September 4, 2010, surrounded by his family in Lubbock. He was born May 10, 1937, in Tokio to J.T. and Wilma Holland Anderson. He graduated from Plains High School in 1955. He then attended Howard County Junior College where he met Gerry Fuquay. They married September 7, 1957, in Stanton. He owned and operated Tokio Hardware and Station from 1959 until 1975. Deroy and Gerry have lived in Chillicothe, Gorman, Dilley and Mission returning yearly to Plains "God's Country" to ship watermelons. He was in the watermelon business for over 50 years and one of the earliest members of the Texas Watermelon Association. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in McAllen.

He was preceded in death by a son, Tod in 2003; a brother, Duane Anderson; a sister and her son, Nell Anderson Marshall and Doyle Wayne.

Deroy is survived by his wife, Gerry of Mission; a son, Tony Anderson and wife Cheryl of Mission; two daughters, Teretha Jones and husband Guy of Mission and Tamya Cash and husband Tommy of Houston; ten grandchildren, Tiffany, Taryn (Jonathan Steele) and Travis, Lacy and Jessy, Madeline, Mackenzie (Michael Wilson) and Tina; two great-grandchildren, Ava and Brian; his sister, Neda Anderson Faris and husband Leon of Lubbock.

The family suggests memorials be made to the Tod Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Plains State Bank or make a donation to your local blood bank or Plains First Baptist Church Centennial Memorial Fund.

Special thanks to Covenant Medical Center, his doctors and nurses who were caring, compassionate angels here on earth.

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