For 25 years, Trev Anderson, who has died at 103, was often found in his favourite chair on the front porch of his Niagara Street home, waving at passersby
For more than 15 years, Trev Anderson was a fixture in James Bay, sitting in his favourite chair on the front porch of his Niagara Street home in his signature black hat, waving, chatting and even blowing the odd passersby a kiss.
He enlisted in 1941, receiving training as a wireless operator and gunner. He was stationed in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sicily, flying in B-25 bombers attached to the Royal Air Force. “Dad told me that the only way out was through a 10-inch window — he remembered kicking it,” said Lowden. The experience did not deter Anderson from returning to the air. He completed a total of 55 missions, with the usual number for gunners typically running 25 to 30.In one of the letters, he asked her to marry him — and she accepted. They married in 1944 and the two were together until Flo’s death.The following year, with Flo and two boys and two girls in tow, he became a lighthouse keeper, initially on Lennard Island, on the southwest entrance to Templar Channel, north of Tofino.
They learned to sail, cruising the Gulf Islands and circumnavigating Vancouver Island before heading to the South Pacific in 1985.
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