Murphys, CA…Grover Anderson Oct. 23, 1933 – May 21, 2015. Born in Ceres, CA, the fourth and last child of James G. and Hattie Anderson, Grover died peacefully at home with his family in Murphys. In 1947, Grover’s father and eldest brother Leonard purchased the Dorrington Hotel and Camp Connell store and surrounding property. Grover was enrolled at Bret Harte High – a musically gifted student who also excelled academically and athletically. He loved playing football as a Bullfrog. He was a member of the Angels Camp Miners Band and is sweetly remembered picking up his clarinet or trumpet and playing along with music from the stereo at home. Once, when entreated by his wife to be quiet because their firstborn, Jack, was sleeping, he replied “he’d better get used to it!” We all did, and when he could no longer hold the instrument to his lips, we missed the perfectly pitched melodies that gave us an idea of the soul inside the man.

Grover married Beverly Corpening Jordan of Angels Camp in 1953. He received clearance through the U.S. Army Security Agency and was called to serve as a field radio repairman in the U.S. Army in Korea. Following the war, he returned to Camp Connell where he and Beverly raised four children. Grover had a passion for engines and racing (anything), jeeping, snowmobiling, boating, fishing, hiking, and camping-introducing all the wonders of the Sierra Nevadas to his children. Highway 4, especially Ebbetts Pass, was the highway of our hearts and the trail through our backyard, and Grover travelled it or worked on it, opened and closed. He fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying and got his pilot’s license in his 50s. Grover was preceded in death by his parents, Grover and Hattie Anderson, his brothers Leonard and Randle and his sister Rosebud. He is survived by Beverly, his wife of 61 years, his sons Jack and Robert, daughters Roneva and Linda, sons-in-law Wooly and Hector, and daughter-in-law, Cynthia, 13 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. The family also wishes to recognize and thank Dick Elliott for his friendship and assistance to Grover.

Friday, June 26, rosary will precede Mass at 6:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Angels Camp. A memorial will be held on Sunday, June 28, at the Camp Connell Store on Highway 4, beginning at 1 p.m.