Ted Anderson
Ted Anderson | |
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 Anderson at the 15th Alaskan Convention, 1971 | |
| Born | Raymond Theodore Anderson August 5, 1924 Mount Horb, Wisconsin, USA |
| Died | September 21, 2017 Innisfail, Alberta |
| Resting place | Innisfail, Alberta |
| ABM | Americas 1965 - 1977 |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Storie |
| Children | Christopher Anderson |
Raymond Theodore Anderson (August 5, 1924 - September 21, 2017) was a prominent Canadian Bahá’í. He was born in 1924 in Mount Horb, Wisconsin USA. He earned his BA and two master's degrees in Oregon and Chicago where he became a Bahá’í. He met wife Joan Storie at the Baha’i House of Worship in Chicago. They married in 1951. They pioneered to the Yukon Territory in 1953 and remained there for nineteen years. They were the first Baha'i family to settle there and they were were given the title of Knights of Baha'u'llah. They were adopted by the Tlingit First Nations of Carcross-Tagish. They moved to Red Deer, Alberta in 1972.
In 1965 Raymond was appointed as an Auxiliary Board Member for Alaska by Zikrullah Khadem along with Howard Brown, and the two spoke about the Nine Year Plan at a Conference in Petersburg that year.[1]
He died in Innisfail, Alberta on 21 September 2017.
Reference[edit]
- Echevarria, Lynn (2008). "A New Skin for an Old Drum: Changing Contexts of Yukon Aboriginal Bahá'í Storytelling". The Northern Review. 29: 39–55.
- "Raymond Theodore Anderson". Obituary.
- ↑ Baha’I News, No. 410, p 5
