Lattie G. Cooper Anderson went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday evening, September 18, 2022.
Lattie was born on the family farm near Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas to Willie E. Cooper and Ora Odellia Hill Cooper on March 16th, 1925. Her parents and grandparents were well known and respected in the Rising Star and Carbon communities, and she was the light of her Granddaddy Hill’s eye. She and her younger sister and older brothers grew up on that farm where they all learned to appreciate living close to the land and nature in ways that affected their life choices. Both brothers farmed, ranched and gardened; both sisters were Master Gardeners before the term was coined.
After high school graduation, Lattie went to Fort Worth to go to business school – a decision that would affect the course of her life. While there, her landlady introduced her to the love of her life. On her seventeenth birthday, March 16, 1942, Lattie and Guy W. Anderson from the Winkler Community on the Navarro and Freestone County line were married in First Baptist Church, Fort Worth by J.G. Norris. In the midst of World War II while Guy was away for military training, their son, also Guy, was born. His name wasn’t to have been his daddy’s, but Lattie’s daddy gave the nurse the information for his birth certificate. Willie always defended his choice by saying that if a man is going to war his son should carry his name. Lattie and Guy were together for almost sixty-five years until she and their son were by his side on Sunday morning February 18th, 2007, when he went ahead to await her coming.
Lattie and Guy lived in various locations including several in the Dallas-Fort Woth area as well as a few years in New Mexico and Oklahoma City before “retiring” to Baxter, Winkler and again to Baxter. Every home they ever lived in had enviable landscaping when she left it – always taking a few plantings to start the process of a magnificent yard again. As others had nurtured both her love of gardening and her garden, she shared knowledge and plants with all who were the least bit interested. Her azaleas were routinely over six feet tall; magnolias were at least twenty, hollies and tulip magnolias not much if any shorter; hydrangea and numerous other bushes were interspersed with iris, lilies, daffodils and many other bulbs and assorted plants. One often couldn’t see the soil for the plants.
Lattie truly loved God’s creation and its creatures – unless they were gophers eating her azalea’s roots or insects attacking above ground growth. She also loved His two-legged creatures. She taught Sunday School, participated in, and taught Bible Studies and was often involved in WMU missionary activities. She felt called even as a young woman to care for her elders including caring for several family members in her home during their later years. And Lattie enjoyed her neighbors, often calling them daily at specific times to make sure that they were safe.
Her recent caregivers often noted her mischievous grin and love of looking at the flowers in the courtyard.
Lattie was preceded in death by her husband, Guy W. Anderson Sr.; her parents; her brother, Plott and wife, Mary; Fred and wife, Lucille; and her sister, Rea Dar Head and husband, Troy. Also preceding her was niece, Gloria Ann Paulk and husband, J.B.; nephew, Stanley Head; niece, Janet Head Thomas; niece, Mary Kate Anderson and numerous other relatives and friends.
Those left to mourn her loss include her son, Guy W. Anderson, Jr. and wife, Ailsa Flynn Anderson; nephew, Jacob Bryan Paulk and wife, Leighann and daughter, Caden Avagrace; nephew, Hampton Anderson; and nephew, Randy Head.
Also, mourning her loss are friends Linda and Bill Enger; many former neighbors and church friends as well as caregivers at Lakeland House Assisted Living and Encompass/Enhabit Health Care.
Her family wishes to thank those caregivers as well as those who ministered to her as medical staff, prayers warriors, and all who have assisted us in innumerable ways.
In lieu of floral donations, friends are encouraged to purchase pot plants to be shared with shut-ins or residents of health care facilities, in Lattie’s honor.
A visitation for family and friends is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, September 24th with Memorial Service to follow at 11 a.m. Both will be held at Autry Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home, Athens, TX.
Lattie was born on the family farm near Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas to Willie E. Cooper and Ora Odellia Hill Cooper on March 16th, 1925. Her parents and grandparents were well known and respected in the Rising Star and Carbon communities, and she was the light of her Granddaddy Hill’s eye. She and her younger sister and older brothers grew up on that farm where they all learned to appreciate living close to the land and nature in ways that affected their life choices. Both brothers farmed, ranched and gardened; both sisters were Master Gardeners before the term was coined.
After high school graduation, Lattie went to Fort Worth to go to business school – a decision that would affect the course of her life. While there, her landlady introduced her to the love of her life. On her seventeenth birthday, March 16, 1942, Lattie and Guy W. Anderson from the Winkler Community on the Navarro and Freestone County line were married in First Baptist Church, Fort Worth by J.G. Norris. In the midst of World War II while Guy was away for military training, their son, also Guy, was born. His name wasn’t to have been his daddy’s, but Lattie’s daddy gave the nurse the information for his birth certificate. Willie always defended his choice by saying that if a man is going to war his son should carry his name. Lattie and Guy were together for almost sixty-five years until she and their son were by his side on Sunday morning February 18th, 2007, when he went ahead to await her coming.
Lattie and Guy lived in various locations including several in the Dallas-Fort Woth area as well as a few years in New Mexico and Oklahoma City before “retiring” to Baxter, Winkler and again to Baxter. Every home they ever lived in had enviable landscaping when she left it – always taking a few plantings to start the process of a magnificent yard again. As others had nurtured both her love of gardening and her garden, she shared knowledge and plants with all who were the least bit interested. Her azaleas were routinely over six feet tall; magnolias were at least twenty, hollies and tulip magnolias not much if any shorter; hydrangea and numerous other bushes were interspersed with iris, lilies, daffodils and many other bulbs and assorted plants. One often couldn’t see the soil for the plants.
Lattie truly loved God’s creation and its creatures – unless they were gophers eating her azalea’s roots or insects attacking above ground growth. She also loved His two-legged creatures. She taught Sunday School, participated in, and taught Bible Studies and was often involved in WMU missionary activities. She felt called even as a young woman to care for her elders including caring for several family members in her home during their later years. And Lattie enjoyed her neighbors, often calling them daily at specific times to make sure that they were safe.
Her recent caregivers often noted her mischievous grin and love of looking at the flowers in the courtyard.
Lattie was preceded in death by her husband, Guy W. Anderson Sr.; her parents; her brother, Plott and wife, Mary; Fred and wife, Lucille; and her sister, Rea Dar Head and husband, Troy. Also preceding her was niece, Gloria Ann Paulk and husband, J.B.; nephew, Stanley Head; niece, Janet Head Thomas; niece, Mary Kate Anderson and numerous other relatives and friends.
Those left to mourn her loss include her son, Guy W. Anderson, Jr. and wife, Ailsa Flynn Anderson; nephew, Jacob Bryan Paulk and wife, Leighann and daughter, Caden Avagrace; nephew, Hampton Anderson; and nephew, Randy Head.
Also, mourning her loss are friends Linda and Bill Enger; many former neighbors and church friends as well as caregivers at Lakeland House Assisted Living and Encompass/Enhabit Health Care.
Her family wishes to thank those caregivers as well as those who ministered to her as medical staff, prayers warriors, and all who have assisted us in innumerable ways.
In lieu of floral donations, friends are encouraged to purchase pot plants to be shared with shut-ins or residents of health care facilities, in Lattie’s honor.
A visitation for family and friends is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, September 24th with Memorial Service to follow at 11 a.m. Both will be held at Autry Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home, Athens, TX.