A life, recovered / 1933–2022
Patsy Ruth Anderson Childress
Patsy in the Anderson family
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A sister in the Ferris family
Patsy Ruth Anderson Childress was born in Ferris, Texas, on June 18, 1933. She was a daughter of Guy William Anderson and Tennie Lee Smith Anderson and a sister of Lula Colleen Anderson Watson and Billy Guy Anderson.
Colleen’s published obituary names Patsy Childress as her sister and Billy Guy as her brother. Patsy belongs in the same family record, with her own name and life.
Sources: Tennie Lee Smith Anderson family chronology · Colleen Anderson Watson — Green Funeral Home obituary
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Marriage and later life
Patsy married Tommy Childress in 1959, and their funeral-home notice remembers a household with three daughters. She died in 2022, shortly after her eighty-ninth birthday.
The index preserves Anderson as a searchable family name alongside Childress. Patsy Ruth Birdwell is a different person in the archive; the two names remain separate.
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One life leads to another.
Guy William Anderson
1902–1983
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Tennie Lee Smith Anderson
1910–1968
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Billy Guy Anderson
1941–1996
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Sources & further reading
These sources support the biography and its continuing research.
- Patsy Ruth Childress — Byrum Funeral Home obituary ↗
Published funeral-home notice; birth and death dates, marriage year and three daughters.
- Colleen Anderson Watson — Green Funeral Home obituary ↗
Names parents Guy and Tennie Anderson, brother Billy Guy Anderson and sister Patsy Childress.
- Tennie Lee Smith Anderson family chronology ↗
Existing family biography records Patsy Ruth Anderson’s June 18, 1933 birth at Ferris.