Andrew Keith "Andy" Anderson
Andrew Keith Anderson
Born June 17, 1980
Died November 5, 2004
Aged 24 years
As we approach Andy's fifth Heaven Date, we would again ask for your generosity and love. We would ask you to consider remembering the life of Andy Anderson by your gift of life to www.MaranathaFarm.org who has embraced life's most challenged and unadoptables and never says No to a life who needs saving. Andy would have Loved Karen Wilkins and her husband Duane, and again we ask you to thank them and remember Andy at this hardest of deathiversaries by your Gift of Life. Thank you from Andy's family who takes huge comfort from your Gift of Life & Love.
Andy loved his critters and he loved saving lives.
This is the best gift you could give to him.
Thank you for visiting Andy's page,
and thank you for remembering his life.
For most of Andy's 24 years, he lived without a father. He wanted nothing but to be the best father to his own son. That chance and that right was stolen from Andy when his fiance decided to abort Andy's child - without regard and without remorse, Andy's chances to FATHERHOOD were stolen...again.
I am so very sorry to report Andy's cousin, Artie, died October 7, 2008. Artie was the first of all of our boys, and so very loved. Artie was born in 1973 and died at the age of 35 years. Please visit his page on this site.
When Artie signed Andy's Memory Book, he wrote,
Bro, I wish I had gotten here sooner.
Artie & Andy are now together.
Memorials for Andy
In memory and honor of Andrew Keith Anderson, numerous donations have been made to a host of causes since his leaving in November of 2004. These memorial donations began immediately following Andy's death, and continue today. Countless memorials were made in his name to benefit Lethal White Australian Shepherds through groups such as Aussie Lads Rescue Group - to which Andy belonged. LWARC (Lethal White Australian Shepherds Carolinas) was founded by his mom in his name to further educate the public on the genetic error that leaves many of these pups with blindness and/or deafness. LWARC members also work to rescue, transport, foster and adopt 'Lethal Whites' in the effort to save the lives of so many otherwise culled puppies. LWARC now has two websites (including a newly created inter-active board) and well over one hundred members representing areas throughout the United States. Memorials created and made in Andy's memory continued. In Andy's name and for his 25th Birthday, 'presents' went toward building Andy's Sanctuary at Our Lady of Mercy Catnip Cottage: http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=4671799&adTarget=468petsgeneral&SessionID=4087af0f789155f2-app3&display=&preview=1&row=0&tmpl ( See also "Andy's Sanctuary" Page on this website: http://andrewkeithanderson.tvheaven.com/catalog.html)
For Andy's 29th birthday, we asked for memorial donations to CamdenCounty AnimalShelter in Blackwood NJ. Your gifts made the 2nd hardest day of the year a REAL CELEBRATION, and Andy's mom cannot thank you enough! As part of Andy's Christmas of 2005, his family and friends donated just over $100 toward the Macon County Animal Shelter in November - December. Every dollar donated was matched by Mason County area businesses. Those donations were made in the name and memory of Andy as a 'Christmas Miracle Donation'.
In 2007, Andy's 27th Birthday Memorials were made to Jacksonville Humane Society's shelter rebuilding fund after their devastating fire. For Andy's 28th Birthday, we asked for your kindness again, for a wonderful, heartwarming and inspirational cause.
And in Honor of Andy's 4th Heaven Date, we asked you again to remember him at www.MaranathaFarm.org
This birthday, we would like to thank Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood NJ, who rescued and moved Heaven & Earth for a tiny senior border collie who was hit by a car, suffered neurological damage, was unable to stand or walk, and searched for a home for this boy to spend what was left of his life with a real family. That family was found right here at crittersville, and AngelTillman has made an almost full recovery and his life and prospects are EXCELLENT! Thank you doesn't begin to express his gratitude and my own for all that CCAS did for this boy.
A Heartfelt Thank You - Andy's Family & Friends
