ForeverMissed
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Her Life
December 31, 2012

Mrs. Anderson was born Wednesday, November 2, 1921, in Hartford Connecticut.  She attended schools in New Milford, Connecticut, where her family resided.  She graduated from Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1941.  Ms. Anderson worked as a medical secretary in Hartford for two years until she married William Buker, Jr. in 1943. While he finished school in Boston, she worked in the British Embassy.  He entered the Navy and she returned home to Connecticut. A son, William Buker, III was born in 1947.  In 1952, they were divorced and she married Henry Anderson, a lawyer in New Milford. They adopted three children, Brooke, David and Bettina.

In addition to raising four children, she was involved with many organizations: Connecticut Landmark and Antiquarian Society, New Milford Historical Society, New Milford Hospital Auxiliary and others.  She was an avid gardener and always had beautiful flowers in her yard.  She was a world traveler.  While on a trip to Europe, she and her husband bought a house in southern Portugal in the little village of Carrverro and enjoyed living there for ten years.  In 1980 they were divorced and Ms. Anderson moved to Old Saybrook, Connecticut and enjoyed that historic area until she moved to Essex, Connecticut where she bought a house with an antique shop next door and she was in business.

Her sister in Florida convinced her to come there in 2000, which she did, having had enough of New England winters.  However, two major hurricanes in two years sent many Floridians northward and she came to West Point in 2004 to be near her sister Nicky Sapp Glover.  She came to love Southern hospitality and made many friends in our Valley.  She joined a book club and attended many programs at the Bradshaw Library hosted by John Tidwell, and also belonged to a luncheon group in West Point.

Survivors include her sisters Muriel Sandell Sapp Glover (Cliff) of West Point, Georgia, June Sandell Goodrich (Thomas) of Grier, South Carolina, Jean Sandell Johnson (Herb) of Las Vegas, Nevada;  her sons, Bill Buker, III of Chesapeake, Virginia and David Anderson of Hartford, Connecticut; her daughter, Bettina Barbier (John) of Northport, Long Island, New York.  She was preceded in death by her daughter, Brooke Anderson Uminga.

Other survivors are her grandchildren, Will Buker IV of Wise, Virginia, Theresa Risch (George), Audrey Uminga and Christopher Uminga all of South Portland, Maine; two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.