Volume 29, Number 11
November 2017
24 Pages
Lubbock, Texas 79401
There’s always something to be thankful for Thanksgiving this year at the Anderson’s home will be as usual – in some ways. “The children and grandchildren with be with the in-laws for lunch, and we’ll all get together here in the evening,” Janney Anderson said. The Andersons are farmers and have spent a lifetime working in the cotton industry, so if there’s good weather on Thanksgiving Day, they were busy. Janney worked at the cotton gin, and they have farm land in Lynn County. Thanksgiving time is harvest time, and farmers and cotton gins work when it’s time. Johnny worked as a representative for Plains Cotton
Growers, traveling to gins and farm meetings in this whole region. “Cotton industry producers and leaders are like no other people in the world,” Johnny Anderson said. “Gin managers, workers, farmers – they are all the greatest on earth.” And retirement time was approaching - a chance to travel and spend more time with family and friends. Ah! Retirement! The dates were set, and the plans made. His retirement was set for June, hers in April. But on Feb. 28, the plans changed. On Hwy. 87, just a few miles north of Big Spring, an
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18-wheeler hit his car from behind, knocking the car into the ditch and then back onto the pavement. OnStar came on saying the vehicle had been involved in an accident and asking if anyone was injured. Johnny was flown to a Midland, Texas, hospital, the nearest trauma center. Later in the evening, he was taken to a Lubbock hospital, arriving about 10:30 p.m. On March 3, a surgeon operated on Johnny’s back, repairing as much as possible and putting two rods in his back. Johnny was transported on (See Andersons Page 2)
Inside Feed a Friend ... It’s as Easy as Pie .................. page 5 Covenant recognition ............. page 8 Documents to create ............ page 10 Christmas parade entries ..... page 24 New Neighbors 40th Anniversary ................... page 24
Medicare Open Enrollment continues through Dec. 7 Johnny and Janney Anderson.