March 30, 1934 — October 13, 2025 (age 91)

Jon Irwin Anderson was born March 30, 1934 to parents Melvin and Ruth Anderson in Madison, Wisconsin. He was the second born in a family of five boys. He grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho. When he was in grade school, a schoolteacher named Mrs. Opperly recognized his artistic ability at an art fair in a park where he was sculpting with some clay provided. She mentored him through Jr High and High School. Under her tutelage, he applied for and received scholarship to ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Right after high school, he left for ArtCenter and graduated four years later in Advertising Design. He then chose to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was called to the Northwest Pacific States Mis

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