Individual Details

Russell Max Sanderson

(9 Aug 1894 - 27 Nov 1963)

Galesburg Register Mail, Galesburg, Illinois, Friday, November 29, 1963, Page 29, Cols. 3 & 4: [Russell] Max Sanderson. Roseville---Funeral services for Max Sanderson, 69, of Roseville, who died Wednesday in St. Francis Hospital in Burling, will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Corman Memorial Home at Roseville. Military rites will be performed by the Lawson-Babbitt American Legion Post 614. Burial will be in Roseville Cemetery. The family suggested that memorials be donated to the Roseville Methodist Church building fund.

Mr. Sanderson was born Aug. 9, 1894, in Biggsville, and was married in Galesburg to the former Iva Kirkpatrick Oct. 11, 1919. Mr. Sanderson moved to Stronghurst when he was very young and moved to Roseville in 1922. Enlisting in the Navy May 13, 1918, he served in World War I and was honorably discharged Sept. 11, 1919, at Great Lakes. He was a member of the Roseville Methodist Church, the Roseville American Legion and Warren County Farm Bureau.

Surviving are his widow; a son, James Kirk Sanderson of Cleveland, Ohio; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Smith of Los Angeles, Calif.; six grandchildren; three brothers, Guy and James Sanderson of Stronghurst, and Kenneth Sanderson of Moline; a half-brother, Richard Sanderson of Macomb; a stepsister, Mrs. Thomas Kent of Burlington, and his stepmother, Mrs. O. J. Sanderson of Stronghurst. He was preceded in death by an infant brother and one sister.

Events

Birth3 Aug 1894
Birth9 Aug 1894Biggsville, Henderson Co., Illinois
Marriage11 Oct 1919Galesburg, Knox Co., Illinois - Iva Mary Kirkpatrick
Residence1942Age: 48 - Warren, Illinois, USA
Death27 Nov 1963Burlington, Des Moines Co., Iowa
RaceWhite
BurialR. Max Sanderson, Roseville Cemetery, Roseville, Warren Co., Illinois

Families

SpouseIva Mary Kirkpatrick (1895 - 1997)
ChildJames Kirk Sanderson (1920 - )
ChildEleanor Jane Sanderson (1921 - )

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, U. S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; State Headquarters: Illinois; Microfilm Series: M2097; Microfilm Roll: 253.

2. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Number: 331-16-8790; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: Before 1951.

3. Find A Grave.

4. Peoria Journal Star, Obituary of Iva M. Sanderson (n.p: June 4, 1997, n.d).

5. Ancestry.com, U. S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; State Headquarters: Illinois; Microfilm Series: M2097; Microfilm Roll: 253.

6. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Number: 331-16-8790; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: Before 1951.

7. Find A Grave.

8. Ancestry.com, U. S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; State Headquarters: Illinois; Microfilm Series: M2097; Microfilm Roll: 253.

9. Find A Grave.