Confirmed Mission: The Patriot Guard Riders have been invited to participate in the memorial service for Chief Petty Officer Michael Thomas Anderson. CPO Anderson enlisted in the US Navy in February 1975. He served on the USS Kitty Hawk and the USS Oldendorf as an Intelligence Specialist. He served in the States, Korea, Japan and Hawaii during the Cold War, and while he did not see combat, his brother reports that Mike had flipped off the Soviet Navy on one or two occasions. He retired in 1995.
Plans are for this sailor to be returned to Hawaii and be buried at sea.
More about his life can be read here: https://www.ramseyfuneral.com/obituary/michael-anderson
Date/Time: Saturday, 19 February 2022 Funeral service begins at 1 pm.
Location: First United Methodist Church, 1004 N. Mays St, Round Rock, Texas 78664
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/vdpvdnN4adKyBzig7
Timeline:
11:50 – 12:20 pm – Staging
12:20 pm – Briefing
12:30 pm – Flag line
Wx: Mostly sunny, hi 66 deg F..
Notes: This is a flag line only mission. After the start of the service we will strike the flag line and depart quietly.
Ride Captain: Warren Longacre, longacre@austin.rr.com, (512) 755-4163
Flag Wrangler: Don Ferguson
Please attend to honor this sailor’s long service to our nation.
