More detail on this person: Army colonel
Charles Anders, 79, died of colon cancer
Wednesday at Charlestown Care Center in
Catonsville, where he had lived for the past two
years. He was 79.
He retired in 1972 after 30 years of active duty.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Colonel Anders was a
1941 graduate of Ohio State University and
received his commission the next year. He was
assigned to the Army Air Forces, flying spotter
planes over Italy, Africa, France and Germany
during World War II. He received a Purple Heart
after his plane was shot down over France in 1945.
In 1948, he married Margaret Sharow, whom he met
in 1947 when she was an Army nurse in occupied
Japan. After he retired, the couple settled in
Falls Church, Va., where he was a volunteer
firefighter and active with the Boy Scouts.
He was an officer of the parish council at Our
Lady of the Angels Chapel at Charlestown, 717
Maiden Choice Lane in Catonsville, where a Mass
of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m.
today.
An inurnment service will be held at Arlington
(Va.) National Cemetery at 1 p.m. Nov. 14.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include a
daughter, Mary Jean Saunders of Richmond, Va.;
two sons, Michael Thomas Anders and Robert
Charles Anders, both of Virginia Beach, Va.; a
sister, Margaret Ann Weller of Melbourne, Fla.;
and five grandchildren.
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