FORT WORTH -- Thomas Edgar Anderson, 87, passed away Friday, May 16, 2014, at a local nursing center.
Service: 10 a.m. Friday in Laurel Land Memorial Chapel. Interment: Itasca Cemetery, Itasca. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Laurel Land Funeral Home.
Thomas was born Aug. 26, 1926, to Edgar and Mary Wasson Anderson in Muncie, Ind.; he graduated from Muncie Central High School in 1944 and served in the Army Air Corps until the end of World War II. He then studied aeronautical engineering at Purdue University where he graduated in four years with both a design degree and a structural degree.
He was hired by General Dynamics in Fort Worth (then Convair) in 1950 where he spent 39 years helping design and/or build multiple planes, missiles and a space shuttle.
From childhood on he loved soap box derby cars, go-karts, slot cars, sports cars, motorcycles, bicycles, radio-controlled airplanes, and his club's Piper Cub. He was also an excellent photographer.
On March 25, 1967, he married Evelyn Walker Hyles from Osceola. They were members of West Side and later Woodmont churches of Christ in Fort Worth, where he was active in teaching Bible classes and serving the congregation during worship.
Following retirement he became a docent and photographer at the Fort Worth Zoo for 10 years. The couple also enjoyed travel over much of the world, where he photographed all of it.
Survivors: He is survived by his wife of 47 years and a host of friends.
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