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Dean Anderson dies after brief battle with cancer By Staff Reports |
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Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Trudy Anderson, Ph.D., died Tuesday, April 22 in Corpus Christi following a brief battle with cancer.
A visitation and rosary was held Monday, April 28.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, April 29 at 10 a.m.
Visitation, rosary and services are at St. Gertrude’s Catholic Church, 1120 S. Eighth Street, Kingsville, TX 78363.
Following the services in Kingsville, interment will be at Seaside Memorial Park, 4357 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi.
Anderson was named acting dean in February and served as assistant dean since 2004, the same year she earned the university’s William J. Hall Faculty Award.
She joined the TAMUK faculty in 1993, when she came on board as assistant professor of psychology and sociology. She was named associate professor and earned tenure in 1997.
Anderson was scheduled to receive her 15-year Service Award at the TAMUK Years of Service Awards Luncheon Saturday, April 26.
Prior to coming to TAMUK, Anderson was visiting assistant professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro from 1988-1993.
She served as a postdoctoral fellow for the Midwest Council for Social Research in Aging at Iowa State University from 1985-88; assistant professor at East Texas State University-Texarkana, 1983-1985; undergraduate program assistant, teaching assistant and visiting assistant professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1978-1983; and adjunct instructor, Bellevue (Nebraska) College, 1975-78. She also had experience with Iowa Western Community College, College of St. Mary (Nebraska), University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center.
Anderson earned a B.A. in sociology from Creighton University, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She was instrumental in the implementation of an interdisciplinary masters program in gerontology at TAMUK, which begun in 1997.
She was a member of the Gerontological Society of America, the Southern Gerontological Society and the American Sociological Association.
In 1998, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education in recognition of outstanding leadership in gerontology education.
Anderson is survived by her parents, John and Kay Bohrer of Corpus Christi; her four brothers Eric, Phil, John and Mark and their families, and her husband, Thomas Fields, Ph.D., of Kingsville.
Fields indicated that his wife requested memorials in lieu of flowers to TAMUK and to her parish, St. Gertrude’s, 1120 S. Eighth Street, Kingsville, TX 78363.