Eugene E. “Gene” Andereck, an 81-year-old resident of Republic, died on Sunday, March 7, 2004 at Springfield. He was a former Trenton resident.
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Eugene E. “Gene” Andereck, an 81-year-old resident of Republic, died on Sunday, March 7, 2004 at Springfield. He was a former Trenton resident.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, 2004 at the Greenlawn Funeral Home North on at Springfield. A private family ceremony will be held at a later time in the Boundary Waters canoeing area in order to dispose of his ashes in compliance with his wishes.
Mr. Andereck was born in Maplewood on Jan. 22, 1923. He practiced law for 56 years and was a senior partner of the law firm of Andereck, Evans, Milne, Peace and Johnson L.L.C., with offices in Trenton, Jefferson City, Springfield, Princeton and Smithville.
Mr. Andereck earned his juris doctor degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1947 and was admitted to the Missouri Bar, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri and U.S. Supreme Court. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi, the Missouri Bar, the American Bar Association, the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel, the American Judicature Society, the Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions, 1962-72, a fellow with the International Society of Barristers and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He received the prestigious Lon Hocker Trial Lawyer Award from the Missouri Bar Association in 1958.
He served for over 40 years on the Board of Trustees of Culver- Stockton College in Canton, the Trenton R-9 School Board, was chairman of the building committee of the First Christian Church at Trenton, was finance chairman for the Pony Express Council, Boy Scouts of America and was a member of the Ozark Writers League.
He was a novelist and his best known work, “Trial at Grand Marais,” is in its second printing. He wrote several novels and short stories for children. He also authored nonfiction works published in national and regional law journals and had a syndicated column for years called “View From the Back Pew.” He was a featured speaker at many seminars for young writers.
Throughout his legal career, Mr. Andereck worked with Missouri’s Rural Electric Cooperatives and was instrumental in the creation the of Associated Electric Cooperative, in Springfield, which served electric power throughout Missouri as well as parts of Oklahoma and Iowa. Among his many forward-looking endeavors for the cooperatives was recently helping the Sho-Me Power Elec- tric Cooperative in Marshfield, and created Sho-Me Technol-ogies, LLC, which started the spread of low-cost fiber optic availability with its capabilities for high speed communication and distant learning in rural Missouri.
He is survived by four children, Kim (Brenda) Andereck of Cheyenne, WY, Terry Andereck of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, Amy (JB) Goebel of Palos Park, IL and Mary Gifford-Andereck of Republic; six grandchildren, Alison Goebel, Lauren Goebel, Leslie Andereck, Nels Andereck, Brayden Gifford and Jack Andereck; and one brother, Paul A. (Saralou) Andereck of Brown-ing.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Wally Andereck and Arch Andereck; and one sister, June Bitters.
The family suggests donations to the Gene Andereck Creative Writing Scholarship being established at Southwest Missouri State University, in care of the Alumni Center, 300 S. Jefferson Ave., Suite 100, Springfield, MO 65806-6886 or to Culver-Stockton College in Mr. Andereck’s name. They can be sent to Culver-Stockton College, One College Hill, Canton, MO 63435.