Phyllis Elizabeth Anderson
1923 - 2011 (87 years)
Person ID: I11855 | Tree: Import from RootsMagic | Last Modified: 13 Feb 2025
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Name Phyllis Elizabeth Anderson Notes - There is still a website for her young adult books:
https://phyllisandersonwoodbooks.com
Her son has a tree on Ancestry here:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/186356054?cfpid=242431002156&dtid=100
His name is David Wood:
illswood@comcast.net.
Birth 21 Oct 1923 Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States 
Gender Female Died 22 Jul 2011 Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States - Phyllis Anderson Wood, resident of Grants Pass, passed away on July 22, 2011, in Grants Pass, Oregon. She was 87. Phyllis was born October 24, 1923, in Palo Alto, California, and was raised in San Francisco. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Public Speaking from the University of California at Berkeley, and took a further year of graduate work in Speech and Drama at Stanford University. She received a Master's degree with a specialty in the Teaching of Reading at San Francisco State University, and earned the California Language Development Specialist Certificate, which added the specialty of Teaching English-as-a-Second Language. Altogether, Phyllis taught for thirty years in California public schools, including a two-room mountain high school, an inner-city junior high, a continuation school, adult school, and several large rural and suburban high schools. Over the years, she also supervised and mentored numerous teaching interns from San Francisco State University and Stanford University. In the 1970s, Phyllis began writing novels. Her students' daily lives and problems were reflected in her stories, and their reactions to her books strongly influenced the course of her writing. She wrote a total of 13 young adult novels and over the last decade, she had put back in print seven of these novels for a new generation of young readers. Her website is www.phyllisandersonwood.com. In 1947, she married Roger Holmes Wood. They lived for sixty years on the San Francisco Peninsula before relocating to Grants Pass, Oregon, in 2007 to be near their daughter and her family. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame for over 50 years and affiliated with Bethany Presbyterian Church in Grants Pass. She is preceded in death by her brother, Carl Robert Anderson, in 1936; her son, Stephen Holmes Wood, in 2007; and her husband, Roger, in 2008. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, David Wood and Sharon DeMills, of San Rafael; her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Nelson Maler, of Grants Pass; and her grandchildren, Sarah and Caleb Maler, of Grants Pass. She was laid to rest next to her son and husband in Grants Pass. Condolences can be left on her guestbook at www.since1928hull.com.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on August 28, 2011.
(from Findagrave memorial)
Buried Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States 
Phyllis Elizabeth Anderson Wood headstone - There is still a website for her young adult books:
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Parents
Father Carl Arthur Anderson (ID:I6249), b. 30 May 1889, Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska, United States d. 9 Jan 1974, Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States (Age 84 years) Mother Buleah Elizabeth Davidson (ID:I11853), b. 13 Dec 1892, Mexico, Audrain, Missouri, United States d. 13 Dec 1982, Daly City, San Mateo, California, United States (Age 90 years) Marriage 29 Jul 1919 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States Children 1. 
Carl Robert Anderson (ID:I11854), b. 1 Feb 1921, Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming, United States d. 31 Aug 1936, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States (Age 15 years)2. Phyllis Elizabeth Anderson (ID:I11855)
(current person)
, b. 21 Oct 1923, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States d. 22 Jul 2011, Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States (Age 87 years) -
Family
Husband Roger Holmes Wood (ID:I11856), b. 26 Apr 1920, Corning, Steuben, New York, United States d. 5 Aug 2008, Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States (Age 88 years) -
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