Verna Hazel Zipp Anderson, a long-time resident of Bay City, Texas went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on September 15, 2012 after a short but courageous fight with Acute Leukemia. Verna Anderson. 91 years of age was born at her home in San Antonio, Texas on February 27, 1921, to Robert Gottlieb Zipp and Katie Foerster Zipp.

Verna was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Bay City for more than 65 years where she taught Sunday School, played the piano for the children for over 35 years and was very active in the Senior Church Group for many years.
She served as an active Pink Lady at Matagorda General Hospital since 1968 and loved working with the patients and Doctors she came in contact with. She was a recipient of the Star Performance Recognition Award for her dedicated service to Matagorda General Hospital. She was an accomplished pianist, bridge player, and antique collector. She loved working with handcrafts, flowerbeds, traveling the United States and foreign countries, and recreational traveling with her beloved husband Tom Anderson and their many friends.

Verna or " Bocky", as her grand-children affectionately called her, was a proud descendent of German ancestors who immigrated to the United States In the 1840's to Schumannsville near New Braunfels, Texas. She grew up in New Braunfels and later San Antonio where she started elementary school and later graduated with the 1939 class of Brackenridge High School in San Antonio. At Brackenridge she was a proud member of the Purple Jackets Marching Team. Verna spoke only German and had to learn English in Elementary School. She attended a business school in San Antonio and after graduation went to work as a bookkeeper for General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) in San Antonio. While working for GMAC, she met the love of her life and future husband of 61 years, Tom Anderson. Tom had recently graduated from Rice University and was working for GMAC. They were married on March 9, 1941, and shortly afterwards Tom went to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigations. They were stationed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Omaha, Nebraska, and New York, New York, during World War II. After the war Verna and Tom moved to Bay City, Texas where they lived out their lives.

Verna was preceded in death by her parents Robert Zipp in 1981, Katie Zipp in 2005, and her husband Tom in 2002. Verna took care of her mother for several years until she died at the age of 106. "Bocky" is survived by her daughter, Kitty Wainner of Boerne, Texas, and sons, Tommy Anderson of New Braunfels, Texas and Jackie Anderson of Seguin, Texas. She is also survived by 9 grand children, 16 great grand children, and 2 great great grand children.

A time of visitation will be held on Tuesday from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Bay City Funeral Home. Funeral Services are scheduled for Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM at the First Baptist Church in Bay City with Dr. Michael Zimmerman officiating. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park in Van Vleck. Her grandsons, Bobby Anderson, Derek Anderson. D.J. Baker, Robert "Robby" Wainner, Robin Ray Wainner, and great grandson Joshua Wainner will serve as her pallbearers. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the First Baptist Church of Bay City or to Houston Hospice of El Campo.

Services are under the direction of BAY CITY FUNERAL HOME (979) 245-4893.