Obituaries
April 19, 2019

Linda Kay Anders – Charleroi

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Linda Kay Anders, 70, of Charleroi, died Friday, April 19, 2019, in Mon Valley Care Center, Monongahela. She was born April 27, 1948, in Canonsburg, the daughter of Florence Laverne Davidson Reed of Fallowfield Township and the late Glenn Paul Reed.​ Linda graduated from Charleroi High School in 1966 and from the Washington Hospital School of Nursing as a registered nurse in 1968. She and Donald Anders Jr. were married that same year on June 29. Linda’s career in nursing spanned for more than 45 years at Washington Hospital, Monongahela Valley Hospital and Mon Valley Care Center, as well as private duty nursing. She and her husband, Don, owned and operated The Living Word Bookstore in Charleroi for 20 years. She also served as Sunday school superintendent for many years at the Riverside Tabernacle in Sunnyside and at the Christian Center in Rostraver Township. Linda was an active member of the Mon Valley Nurses Association and volunteered and was on the board of ARC Pregnancy Center in Belle Vernon.​ In addition to her mother, she is survived by two sons, Paul Reed Anders and wife Julie of Charleroi, and Gregg Anders and wife Joyce of Fallowfield Township; four grandchildren, Jacob Anders and wife Amanda, Emily Roberts and husband Everett, Victoria Anders and Tyler Anders; seven great-grandchildren, Brinnleigh and Everett Roberts, Antonio and Lilliana Martin, Max and Benjamin Anders and Asher Roberts; five sisters and a brother, Patricia Fonner and husband Raymond of Washington, Sharon Heiney of Thomasville, N.C., Nancy Leksell and husband Richard of Burlington, N.J., Dennis Reed and wife Joan of Scenery Hill, Kim Lisi and husband David of Holland Patent, N.Y., Beth Hough and husband Michael of Fayette City; and numerous nieces and nephews.​ In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her husband, the Rev. Donald Anders Jr., who died June 2, 2018; and her granddaughter, Samanatha Nichole Anders, who died Oct. 1, 2018.​ Friends will be received from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at FRYE FUNERAL HOME INC., 427 W. Main St., Monongahela, where services will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Tom Harding officiating. Interment will be private in National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, Bridgeville. ​​Memorial contributions in Linda’s name may be made payable to the Mon Valley Nurses Association and mailed or turned into Frye Funeral Home. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.fryefuneralhome.com​.

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