Christine Anderson (Floyd) Anderson

Christine Alice Anderson went home to be with her Lord on October 21, 2016. She had lived at Applegate Place in Sutherlin, Oregon, for 1 ½ years. They took very good care of her needs and tried their hardest to keep up with her and to keep her safe. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 26, 1927, to Ottus Christopher and Lula Mae Floyd. They moved to Casa Grande, Arizona, where she met and married her husband, Charles Elwood Thompson. They had three children, Rita Ann Gilpatrick (Les) of Roseburg, Daniel Dewayne Thompson (Carol) of New Mexico, and Charles Larry Thompson of Roseburg. She had five grandchildren, David Scott Burks (Carol Ann), and Regina
"Ginger" DiAnne Sprinkle, Trina Lee Gilpatrick, and Kevin Allen Gilpatrick. Great- Grandchildren include Melissa Favela, Karina Marie Burks, Benjamin Hobbs, Nikki Sprinkle and Brett Sprinkle, Melody Corum and Daniel Benjamin Bowers, and Aurora Gilpatrick. Great-great-grandchildren include Allayah RoseMarie and Maliah Christine; Ben, Griffin, and Hannah, Brenden and Charlie; and Tyler James.
Christine was a whirlwind of activity, never satisfied to be still. She loved celebrations of any kind, especially Christmas; she loved birthdays, Thanksgiving, Easter, weddings, Valentine's Day, and potlucks. She was down-home hospitality personified. From earliest recollection, she always had cake, pie or cookies to accompany the coffee she offered her guests. She always cooked for a bunch, and was disappointed if you didn't eat more than your fill, saying you didn't like her cooking and putting another cookie on your plate. She gave away 100s of pounds of homemade candy at Christmastime, having her friends sample umpteen kinds, then filling a box with a selection of favorites. She planned numerous birthday parties for friends and family, she could always find an excuse for a party with goodies. Strange thing about Christine, she never cooked at all until she married and then her mother in law taught her to cook. She learned well and then began to branch out and experiment on her own.
She and Charles owned a truck stop/restaurant for several years and she cooked and trained cooks there. She cooked for Campfire Girls camp at Tyee several years, and volunteered at the Friendly Kitchen at its beginning. Christine worked in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and had an adult foster care home for several years. She made her mark in Roseburg when, recovering the use of her hand after a stroke, she began making cookies. They filled her freezer quickly, so she looked for an outlet. She began delivering bags of a dozen cookies to residents of nursing homes, assisted living homes, and some individual homes. Thus her moniker, "Cookie Lady" to this day.
She spent several of her retirement years driving her own RV around the USA. Her goal was to see all 50 states until the gas prices got so outrageous she couldn't move her RV very far each month. One of her granddaughters called her "Grandma Travel". Christine was a member of several RV parks and became the "Craft Director" at almost every park she stayed at. She taught kids and adults alike, and loved it. Sometimes her projects were beautiful, cute, unusual, interesting, and even a few of "never again."
She loved sewing and crafts and was always looking for a new project and patterns. She made many projects for her church including thousands of Good News bracelets, baby diapers and blankets, Awana bags and hospital gowns, and crocheted stocking caps.
Everywhere she lived, if they had a county fair, she would enter as many entries as she could. She worked all year with her eye toward the fair. One of her last years of entering the Douglas County Fair, she had 183 entries and got ribbons for most of the entries. She entered textile and craft items, canning and baked goods. The News-Review wrote a nice article about her entries on her birthday that year. She tried to talk friends and family into entering things, too. She convinced and guided several of her grandchildren and their friends to make and enter items in the fair and they too, won ribbons.
Her family was very dear to her. She always had grandchildren overnighters. One of their favorite birthdays was to invite their friends for an overnight at Grandma's house. She loved board games and card games and was always a boatload of laughs. When she had her RV, she would park her RV in a nice wooded park and then have one or two of the grandkids stay with her a few days. They baked cookies, made S'mores, played in the water, fished, hiked, and rode bikes. She made fond memories with each of them. She was a faithful fan of her grandkids sports. She attended almost every game or practice she could manage, and was an avid cheerleader -- usually for both teams playing. Christine was an active member of the Roseburg Senior Center for a lot of years. She even cooked for their pot lucks in her early days until she was unable to do it any more. Now her son, Charles, is taking over that position. She hated to miss even one pot luck. Christine liked the food, but she loved visiting the people more. She was a leader of Cub scouts when her boys were young. Christine was active in Wellspring Bible Fellowship, and made many items for missions, loved to make items for and pack the Christmas shoeboxes for Samaritan's Purse.