Funeral Services for
Annie Charlotte Eliason Anderson and John Hyrum Anderson
(editor's note: I assume that each child received the following letter on
The First National Bank letterhead accompanying the transcript of the funeral services)

June 23,1945
Dear Mrs. Curtis,
     I am enclosing a copy of the funeral services as conducted for both your father and
your mother I am sure you and your family will often enjoy reading these proceedings
and refreshing your memories as to the many wonderful things said by the speakers about
the splendid character of your parents.
     I personally shall always hold dear in my memories my twenty-six years of close
and friendly association with your father here at the bank and I will never forget the
friendly greeting with which your mother always welcomed me at the home of your
parents.

With kindest personal regards, I am
Cordially yours,
(signed) Russell S. Hanson
Cashier

RSH:LSK
Enclosure

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN H. ANDERSON HELD JUNE 13, 1945 IN THE LOGAN 
FOURTH WARD AT 2 P. M.

Bishop Ira N. Hayward presiding.

OPENING SONG BY THE LADIES CHORUS OF THE WARD, "Softly Beams the Sacred
Dawning.

Softly beams the sacred dawning
Of the great Millennial morn,
And to Saints gives welcome warning
That the day is hasting on,
That the day is hasting on.

Splendid, rising o'er the mountains,
Glowing with celestial cheer,
Streaming from eternal fountains,
Rays of living light appear,
Rays of living light appear.

Swiftly flee the clouds of darkness, Speedily the mists retire;
Nature's universal blackness
Is consumed by heav'nly fire, 
Is consumed by heav'nly fire.

Yea, the fair sabbatic era,
When the world will be at rest,
Rapidly is drawing nearer;
Then all Israel will be blest,
Then all Israel will be blest.


INVOCATION: W. W. OWENS

Our Father which art in heaven, we bow before thee in humbleness at this time. 
We pray that Thy spirit may be with us during the period we have met to pay our
respects and to pay honor to one of Thy sons whom Thou has seen fit to call home.
We feel to express our gratitude and appreciation to Thee for the testimony we
have concerning the purpose of life and the meaning of death.  We feel grateful for
the principles of the gospel which explains these matters.
We are grateful for the authority of the Priesthood which interprets Thy mind and will
to us.
We realize that we have been greatly blessed in being born at this time of goodly
parents, and living in this land which is choice above all other lands.  We are grateful
for the opportunities which we have of proclaiming the gospel to others.  We are
grateful for the privilege we have of doing temple work for those who have gone on
before.
We feel to honor before Thee this brother for the good life he has led.  We are
grateful for this privilege of meeting to consider principles which he has followed
which have made for so much success in his life, which have made it possible for him
to do so much good for his fellows, and to rear a family of exemplary children who
are doing good and will continue to do good here on earth.
We pray Thee that those who shall speak and sing during this service shall have
Thy inspiration, Thy guidance, to direct them that we may go from this service built
up in our faith and in our determination to live righteously, that when our time comes
we may again meet with this brother and we may enjoy his association.  We have
appreciated his work here among us, his intelligence, wisdom, and diligence in
studying the scriptures and making known their meaning to many of us.
Grant that Thy blessings may be with us during this meeting.  We pray especially
for the family that they may be comforted.  We know that they mourn and have cause
to mourn.  We know that they have cause also to rejoice in the fine life which has
been led by this, their father.
Bless us to this end, we humbly pray through the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.


DUET BY MRS.  DORA HAYWARD AND MRS.  HAZEL MATTSON,
ACCOMPANIED BY LILLIAN MORRELL: "ROCK OF AGES."

Rock of Ages, Cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure,

Could my tears forever flow,
Could my zeal no langour know,
These for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone;
In my hand no price I bring,
Simply to the cross I cling.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold Thee on Thy throne,
Rock of Ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.


BISHOP IRA N. HAYWARD

I have been thinking as I sat here and recalled the times that I have gone into
Brother Anderson's flower garden and seen the beautiful blooms that he took such
great joy in, how he must rejoice in these magnificent floral offerings that friends and
loved ones have brought here as a token of their respect and love for him.  I can
speak, I am sure, in behalf of the family in expressing deep appreciation to all who
have assisted in any way in these services or who will take part during the remainder
of these services.
I am honored to have been asked to be the first speaker today and I earnestly
desire an interest in your faith and prayers in the time that I shall use.
Since I learned, after returning from Salt Lake where I was at the time Brother
Anderson passed away, of his passing, there have been two things that have been
uppermost, I believe, in my mind.  One has been the thought of very deep reverence in
contemplation of an eternal union of a husband and wife so strong that even the bands
of death could not sever it for long.  It has been a matter of only a very few weeks
since we laid to rest Brother Anderson's wife and companion -- his wife and
companion for some fifty-eight years, And I am sure that following her death,
although it would not have been his wish to pass on as long as God had a labor for
him to perform here upon the earth, he would have felt that be would not desire to be
separated from her any longer than it was the will of their Father in Heaven that he
should, and I am sure that there is great rejoicing in the hearts of both of them to be
reunited after this very short period of separation.
The other thing that I have been thinking of is the thing that to my mind Brother
Anderson represents more than any other thing, He was a many-sided individual. 
There are many things that could be said and I am sure will be said of him by others
who have known him much longer than I have.  But to me he stands out as a fine
example of a man of faith and of the power of faith in our lives.
Not long ago I was talking with a Brother, a friend of mine, who seemed to feel
that when we put emphasis upon faith as the cornerstone of a religious system, when
we set it in the first position among the first four principles of the Gospel, that
somehow we are attempting to belittle human powers, the power of man to learn
things for himself, to work out things for himself.  I thought that this man's
conception of faith is quite different from mine.  He thinks of faith as a negative thing,
as a static thing, as a thing without power.  To me faith is power, faith is the
foundation of the greatest of our powers.  And I am reminded of the words of Paul in
his Epistles to the Hebrews: "For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come,
and will not tarry, Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul
shall have no pleasure in him.  But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition;
but of them that believe to the saving of the soul, Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good
report.  Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of
Go4. so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear, By faith
Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained
witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet
speaketh.  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God bad translated him; for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God, But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he
that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him."
It seems to me that here we have just such a man who lived by faith.  There has
been an age-old controversy among philosophers as to the nature of things.  At the
two extremes of this controversy, we have on the one hand the materialists who
maintain that all things are things of material substance, and in more recent years there
are the discoveries and ways of science that tell us that all that exists anywhere is
merely an arrangement of atomic substance, that is all; there is nothing besides that. 
On the other hand, there are those who hold, like Plato, the view that all reality is
ideas, thoughts, and spiritual conceptions.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a philosophy; it is a system of belief,
knowledge, conviction that rises above philosophies and transcends them.  It
embraces the truths of all philosophies and adds to them a unifying truth that is
greater than they and beyond all philosophical systems.  Through modern revelation,
it seems to me that we have the solution to this age-old controversy in the declaration
of the revealed word of God.  That spirit is a form of matter, a refined, glorified form
of matter, and, at the same time, that all of the laws of God are spiritual laws.  God
says that he has given us no temporal laws; all of his laws are spiritual.  The universe
is pervaded by matter and spirit and they are one.  And so, it seems to me that it is
important that we draw a conclusion as to the nature of our existence here in the light
of those great truths, that after all this life that we live is all in one piece.  The spirit
that we have existed before we came here; it exists while we are here, with us, with
the body; and when we pass on it goes on into eternal existence.  And this brief span
that we live while in the flesh doesn't change the nature of that spirit; it doesn't change
the nature of what is real and important.  Anything that is important before we came
here is important while we are here; the things that are important while we are here
will be eternally important after we leave here, and to live by faith is to live in
accordance with those laws which govern the spirit, that determine the progression
and development of the spirit.  When we say that a man has lived by faith, we say he
has lived in accordance with the eternal truths, eternal regardless of things.
As I said a moment ago, Brother Anderson was a many-sided man. . He had
many and varied interests.  He was a sportsman, loving to hunt and fish.  He was a
businessman, a leading merchant and banker.  He was a servant of God in religious
capacities extending over his entire lifetime.  And I am sure that Brother Anderson
didn't live his life in water-tight compartments.  He did not say "I am living one kind
of a life when I am a businessman and another kind when I am on the High Council or
a Bishop, and still another kind when I am a sportsman.  " There are some of us who
now get into trouble by trying to divide our lives into water-tight compartments. 
Businessmen sometimes feel that the service, we might say lip service, they give on
Sunday cannot be carried out into their business life; that wouldn't necessarily apply in
his recreational activities.  But Brother Anderson, as I came to know and love him,
was a man who lived his life on a single unified plane.  The central thing was the faith
in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I remember John telling me of times when he was out fishing and hunting with
his father and he said, "You know, there was never a better sport.  " His business
associates have said to me, "Here is a man four square; a man of unshakable integrity,
honest in business dealings, fair, reasonable, and charitable, "
I have known him in the church.  I'll never forget the day when I was sustained
as a counselor to Bishop Sonne.  I didn't know Brother Anderson except to speak to
him when I was sustained to the bishopric of this ward.  He was the senior member of
the High Council.  I had been called upon to speak and any of you who have had
experiences of that sort know with what humility we accept responsibilities of that
kind.  I felt as humble, I believe, as I had ever felt in my life.  He took my hand and
said, "You have the spirit of humility.  Keep that in your heart and God will bless you. 
" And I have lived to realize the truth of that, to know that he spoke a profound truth. 
I believe there isn't one of us who holds even the lesser positions in the church who is
not made aware every day of his life that by humility, faith, and reliance upon the
power of God and support of God can we hope to please in any way.  Paul said we
cannot please him in any other way than by faith.  That humble faith will, I am sure,
sustain us all in our labors that we may, to the limit of our powers, please God.
I was grateful for the sound wisdom of Brother Anderson.  And as I said some
weeks ago in the funeral of Sister Anderson, since I have been sustained as bishop of
this ward, it has been my great joy many times to go to him to counsel with him and I
have found him always wise, sympathetic, and understanding, never for one moment
permitting himself to deviate in any counsel and service from the line of truth as he
found it and the plan of the gospel as he found it.  I have been grateful for his life, for
his inspiration to me, for his counsel to me.  He has lived by faith and his life has been
rich and full and beautiful because of living by faith.  He has exemplified the power of
faith, and the esteem in which he is held by everyone, I think, who knows him is a
testimony to the soundness and wisdom of that principle of living by faith.
I am sure that when the time came for him to say good-bye, it was not with any
feeling that a great change was to take place, I am sure that down in his heart, having
proved the value of faith, Brother Anderson was able to enter into eternal life
knowing that the same principles that had guided him in the life here upon the earth
would be the principles that would guide him in his eternal progression in the world to
come.  And when we contemplate a life of this sort, then it seems to me it brings
home to us a realization of the fact that, after all, this thing we call death is just a
change of position, change of status, just a going on, and that after all the principles
that are sound here are sound eternally.
I have read before on occasions of this sort and I feel that it is appropriate now;
I should like to read in conclusion a bit of verse I picked up some years ago J. L.
McCreery's poem, "There Is No Death."

There is no death.  The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forever more.

There is no death.  The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
To golden grain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.

There is no death; the leaves may fall
The flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours,
The coming of the May.

There is no death.  An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved ones away,
And then we call them "dead.

Born into that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them -- the same
Except in sin and pain.

And ever near us, tho' unseen,
Their dear immortal spirits tread;
For all this boundless Universe
Is Life -- there are no dead.

May God bless us all, my brothers and sisters, that we may find the example of
this noble man, this servant of God, inspiration and courage to make our lives noble,
to live by faith as he lived, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

The next speaker will be President L. Tom Perry.  Following his remarks, Elder
Charles O. Peterson will sing, "In The Garden", accompanied by Sister Bertha Purser. 
The concluding speaker will be Elder Alma Sonne, Assistant to the Quorum of the
Twelve.  The Relief Society Chorus will then sing, O My Father.  The benediction will
be offered by President C. W. Dunn, and the grave will be dedicated by President
ElRay Christiansen.


L. TOM PERRY

It was a rare privilege to know John H. Anderson.  It is an unmerited honor that
gives me place in the services today.  There has come into my life great joy because
some of my acts have been approved by this great and just man, a joy, I think, akin to
that which I hope will come at the final judgment when it will be pronounced on me
the reward for living a life according to the principles which he taught.  Every contact
with Brother Anderson has meant riches to me.
As my teacher, not in the classroom, but on the street and in the offices and on
trips, he has taught me many valuable truths and worthy lessons. As a preacher of
righteousness, he turned my thoughts to sacred things. He was a fine companion, an
entertaining and interesting conversationalist with a rich store of, knowledge, a
treasury of incidents of early church leaders, and a fine sense of humor which enriched
our associations on all types of occasions.
He was a very fine client in a professional way, and one who was fair and just. I
remember the sharp rebuke he once gave me because I made a suggestion that he take
advantage of his favored position, and it didn't meet with his sense of justice and
right.
The Bishop has referred to how he carried over into his daily life the lessons he
taught in Sunday School and from the pulpit, and I want to add my testimony to that
tribute.
They say that the way to lose a friend is to loan him money and then collect it. 
Brother Anderson never lost friends in that way.  Other people have been criticized
severely by debtors when we attempt collection in a professional way, but I never
heard one criticism of all the business dealings I handled for Brother Anderson. 
Those who borrowed money from him and had to pay recognized his fairness in all
transactions.  He was just full of integrity and truth in his daily life.  I think of him too,
as a fine example of composure and serenity. I remember on one occasion I went to
his home to get him to sign a paper when he was afflicted with the shingles.  "Bishop,
" he said, "Do you know what the shingles are ? " "No, " I said.  "They are a
multiplicity of boils that break out all over you so thick you can't put a pin between
them. That is what has happened to me, but I get some satisfaction out of it. I can see
new meaning in reading the Bible, in the affliction of Job because I am suffering like
he did."
I remember, too, that in those fateful September days in 1939, I believe that's
the year, President Sonne and I were riding with him to Provo and we turned on our
radio and listened to the tremendous things that were taking place in the world.
Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia.  The World War was evident. We purchased
papers in Salt Lake City, extras carrying the news. I was afire, excited, intensely so,
because there was a repetition in my short life of a gigantic world conflict.  Brother
Anderson was composed, serene, and yet he knew better than either of us what was
going to take place.  He saw the future; he saw the events which have happened since
the conflict started.  He was composed, philosophically thinking about it from the
scriptural standpoint and knowing that the punishment of sin was about to come upon
the world; and even though his loved ones, he could see, would participate, he was
calm and serene and philosophical and looked at the world in broad meaning.
I think of him perhaps greatest as a student of the scriptures.  I think I may say
that he was Cache Stake's foremost student of the things written in Holy Writ.  It is
true, he held no degree or certificate of graduation from any institution that taught
religion except, of course, Priesthood certificates.  I mean by that that he had no
diploma from the Institute or any theological school, and yet he was a thorough and
masterful student of Holy Writ. On my last visit with him two weeks ago last Sunday,
we were speaking of the succession of the Presidency of the Church, and he was quite
provoked that we even discussed the question.  "Why" he said, "it is settled that the
President of the Twelve will always become President of the Church.  The Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ, has told us that was the order." And then he turned to each of us
and asked if we didn't know where to find it, and we told him we did not.  And then
he related the vision Lorenzo Snow had.  Brother Snow, at the death of President
Woodruff, was very reluctant to assume the responsibility of Prophet, Seer, and
Revelator, of a great people in the world, and he deeply hoped the Lord would
choose someone else.  And Brother Anderson said he went to the Holy of Holies in
the temple to pray and when he was coming out from his sanctuary, he saw the Savior
who told him that it was His order that the President of the Twelve was to act as the
President of the Church.  Brother Anderson said, "If I could get up from my bed, I
could turn exactly to the place and show you." On any point, he was just as accurate;
on any point of doctrine, he was an accurate student.  I think he was a teacher of
teachers in the stake because there are many teachers in the various auxiliary
organizations and Priesthood quorums who, when they were perplexed with some
problem, those who knew him would turn to Brother Anderson and he would find the
page and the place to find the answer to the disputed doctrine.  And so, too, this great
teacher and student read the scripture, memorized and studied it, and was taught by
the power and inspiration of the Lord.  As I said, he didn't graduate from any school,
but knowing some of the times in his everyday life here, I know he was inspired and
prayed to the Lord to receive an answer.  I am confident in saying that he was taught
the meaning of the scripture by the greatest of all those invisible teachers that the
trained and humbled mind can speak to and receive an answer from.
I would make this suggestion to the people of our stake who love him and
respect him and honor his memory, that we erect a monument to his name, not a
monument of stone, but rather that we dedicate an hour each week and call it John H.
Anderson hour.  And in that hour we study the scriptures, read and think about them,
compare them with other parts of sacred Writ, make them fit into the scheme of
things in our own lives and into the scheme of things of the Lord, and religiously
follow that dedication of an hour's time each week to a sincere study of Holy Writ in
the John H. Anderson hour.
My time is up.  President Sonne is to follow, but before I close, I want to just
refer to some scripture.  I haven't time to read them, I have a number cited; I think I'll
just talk a few minutes about them, I think there is one here in Hebrews close to
where Bishop Hayward was reading. Paul is writing to the Hebrews; he is speaking
about the New Testament or the contract the Savior made with those who would
believe upon him and take upon them his name and accept his philosophy and
righteous truths; and then Paul said, "Have a testament, a force after men are dead,
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth." That is a comparison
with a will.  A man makes his will in which be bequeaths his property to his children,
to his loved ones, or his friends.  If he is a rich man, he bequeaths and divides lands
and money to those who follow after.  But that will has no effect or no application
while the man lives.  You can't sue upon it, you can't enforce your rights under it.  It
takes the death of the testator to give it any effectiveness.  And so Paul, in speaking
of the testament of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, said it was like a will -- it
became effective when the Savior died and was resurrected.  The thing which made it
effective was the death of the testator.  So the plan that the Savior had was brought
into being and made effective because the Savior offered his life for us that we may
live again.  And then Paul, in earlier writings, I think to the Corinthians, puts this
rhetorical question, I believe in Corinthians in the King James version says that man
will say, but in some others that people will ask, "With what body shall we rise with
on the resurrection; what type of body ? " he asks in his living is a rhetorical question;
and then he answers it and talks about different bodies.  He talks about the flesh of
man being different from the flesh of birds or the flesh of beasts, and he says also the
bodies which we shall rise with on the resurrection may be different.  We'll have our
bodies, the ones that we possess now, but some will have Celestial and some
Terrestrial and some Telestial bodies.  In our study of the scripture, compare that with
the revelation of the Lord to the Prophet Joseph Smith when He says: "Some will be
quickened with the Celestial glory and some bodies that are dormant on resurrection
day will be quickened with the Terrestrial glory and some will be quickened with
Telestial glory and others will be quickened." Both Paul and the Lord, through Joseph
Smith, said there was more to the resurrection than the mere union of the body-and
the spirit because the bodies which we take up out of the grave will be conditioned
and fitted to live in a sphere which we have prepared ourselves for living, "And the
bodies that are quickened with the Celestial glory, the bodies which will have the
elements of Celestial power will be privileged to live with God, be taught by him, and
overcome all things, passed by the angels and understand, through right living, every
secret of the universe, and they will be clothed with the
power of eternal increase.  But bodies that are only quickened with a lesser glory will
not be privileged to be educated by the association with the Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ, directly.  They will be limited in their sphere and not be able to overcome all
things and become as Gods, and the power of procreation of increase will be denied
them because in this life they haven't lived to be worthy of it.  I just refer briefly to
that scripture as a beginning of the monument that I pray will be erected in our lives
to the memory of Brother Anderson -- a monument of learning, of study, and of faith. 
I pray that these children and grandchildren will participate in the erection of this
monument; I know they are doing it; I pray they will continue to do it and follow in
the footsteps of their illustrious parent as a student of the scriptures, a believer in
what is true, and one who exemplifies it in every act of his life, I pray in the name of
Jesus, Amen.

VOCAL SOLO BY CHARLES O. PETERSON, ACCOMPANIED BY BERTHA
PURSER, "In The Garden."

I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear
Falling on my ear;
The Son of God discloses.

Chorus
And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His
own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody
That He gave to me,
Within my heart is ringing.

Chorus

I'd stay in the garden with Him
Tho' the night around me be falling, But He bids me go;
Thro' the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.

Chorus

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