(My note: There is more to this obit if anyone is interested--many grandchildren, ggrandchildren listed by name. Is it possible his mother's maiden name should have been BERRY (instead of BEERY)? Diane Biggar-Taylor) Napa Valley Register Napa, CA May 25, 2000 Benjamin Herschel ANDERSON, Jr. passed away on May 23, 2000. He was born on July 11, 1900, in Morrisville, Mo., to Benjamin H. ANDERSON, Sr. and Olive Magdalene BEERY. Leona Mary (Dixie) GRANT, his wife of 76 years, predeceased him. As a young man in Missouri, Herschel worked breaking horses, and as a farmer, barber, blacksmith and on the railroad. During the Depression, Herschel and Dixie moved their family to Santa Paula, Calif., where they worked in the citrus industry until he got a job as a shipbuilder at Mare Island, where he retired in 1963. In his post retirement yeas, he worked at Donaldson Way School in Vallejo until reaching the then mandatory retirement age of 70. Healthy and alert into great old age, Herschel could be seen riding his three-wheel bicycle around the neighborhoods in which he lived. He was an avid reader and read without glasses until his death. He and Dixie entertained family and friends with their music, Herschel on the fiddle, his wife at the piano, and everyone else singing along. After his wife's death, he continued to play for the residents of Piner's guest home, as well as at family gatherings. Herschel is survived by his sons, Benjamin H. Anderson III of Napa, and William Howard Anderson of Boise, Idaho...........................