Jeanne Anderson

Jeanne Anderson

Jeanne Rusby Anderson of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a longtime Les Cheneaux Islands cottager since her marriage to James Johnson Anderson in 1942.

Mrs. Anderson was 92 when she passed away Thursday, November 8, 2007, after a short bout with pneumonia at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1915 and was graduated from Barnard College in Columbia, New York and Vassar College in Poughkeepskie, New York.

Family members say she had an eclectic eye, ear, and feeling for art, from primitive folk to classical, and she and her husband enjoyed nature, architecture, and people wherever they traveled.

Mrs. Anderson spent her first years in the Les Cheneaux Islands in a family cottage just two doors from Patrick's Landing and her husband would become a longtime hunting and fishing pal of Bruce Patrick.

Mrs. and Mr. Anderson's original cottage looked out onto the channel near Dollar Island, near the cottage of her in-laws, A.E. Anderson, who had started coming to Les Cheneaux at the end of the 1800s.

Mrs. Anderson's last summers in Les Cheneaux were spent in the new family cottage that overlooked Duck Bay and Musky Bay, right across from Middle Entrance. Her last visit was in August with her nurse, Clare Barton, and her daughter, Barbara Landen.

Mrs. Anderson had an abiding interest in nature, and particularly in wildflowers. She always wanted to time her first visit to "the Snows" to coincide with the spring wildflowers. Back at her home in Cincinnati, Mrs. and Mr. Anderson established a wildflower walk, and she also helped establish a wildflower walk in the woods behind the Deupree House retirement community, where she lived for more than 10 years.

She maintained an interest in history and art throughout her life, and she was the first lifetime member of the Chippewa County Historical Society.

Her love of music and art was demonstrated by her final trip to the Cincinnati Symphony last month, October 12, where her 13th row seat remained for many years in the Friday Morning Orchestra series.

Surviving are her daughter and her family, Barbara and Everett Landen, who continue to make their summer home at the family cottage in Cedarville; Robin Anderson of Cornville, Arizona; four grandchildren of Cincinnati, and five great-grandchildren.

Services were Saturday, November 10, at Indian Hills Church in Ohio with the Reverend James Metzger officiating.