Mr. Harrel Jerome "Hap" Anderson

Life began on April 26, 1957 for Harrel Jerome Antionio Anderson Sr. In Marianna, Fl. He confessed Christ at an early age and joined McChapel A.M.E Church. where he served faithfully as a YPD, Sunday School & Allen Christian Fellowship (ACE League) Member as well as a Steward, Trustee, Usher, President of the Youth Usher Board, President Of The Sons Of Allen and Member Of The McChapel Male Choir. He attended the public school system in Cottonwood, AL He furthered his education and graduated from Job Corps. He later joined the United States Army as a Tanker, DI Sergeant. He was employed with Cooking Good and The State of Florida for many years.

Harrel affectional known as Hap, Happy, & June Bug was loved and respected by everyone who knew him. He enjoyed spending time with family and friends, farming, fishing, bowling, and traveling. Hap touched the lives of many with his words of wisdom, honesty, and sense of humor. He will be greatly missed.

He transitioned from this life to Heaven on July 1, 2016 at Southeast Alabama Medical Center at 12:49 AM. He was preceded in death by his grand-parents, Noah (NG)(Lil Dee) and Hester Bell Gibson, and Lige Lee Johnson; fathers, Otis (Hood) Gibson, David L. Anderson; brother, Michael Anderson; and father-in-law, Willie C. Balkcom.

A lifetime of precious memories are left with a caring and devoted family to include: his wife of almost 30 years, Mary Carol Anderson; daughter, Antoinette Chanell Anderson (baby girl); son, Harrel Jerome Antionio Anderson Jr (C.J.); grandson, Michael Ki’lyn Daughtry (MJ), all of Greenwood, FL; his mother, Dorothy Jean Gibson (Dunk), Marianna, FL; grandmother, Essie Mae Johnson, Panama City, FL; special aunts & uncle: Mary L. (Duke) Gibson, Greenwood, FL, Marva (Jean) Johnson, Panama City, FL, Dorothy (Money) Balkcom, Blakely, GA and Edward Lige Johnson, Marianna, FL; aunts, Loretha Holland and Ira Mae “Bobby” Johnson, Panama City, FL, Patricia Minns (Lee), Quincy, FL; uncles, Lorenza Johnson, Mervin Gibson and Kenneth (Sallie) Gibson, all of Malone, FL; a special sister, Mary L. Oliver Keys (Ben), Marianna, FL; brothers, Dexter Anderson, Greenwood, FL, David Anderson, Jr., Marianna, FL; mother-in-law, Nellie (Nett) Balkcom; sisters-in-law, Sheryl White (Boris), Greenwood, FL, Therasa Russ, Marianna, FL. Linda Anderson, Ft. Walton, FL; nieces, Kimberly Donaldson, Tallahassee, FL, Dyonsia Balkcom, Marianna, FL, Genesis Anderson, Panama City FL, Tiara Anderson and Katrina Keys Donaldson, both of Greenwood, FL; nephews, Fredrick Donaldson Jr.(Temeka), Greenwood FL, Steven Russ Jr., Marianna, FL, Jamaal Anderson (Aisha), Jacksonville, FL; four special cousins, William Gibson, Orlando, FL, Laura and Felicia Gibson, Greenwood FL, Denise Hol-land, Panama City, FL; goddaughters, Taylor Smith, Graceville, FL, Breanna Edwards and Anoshua Wesly, Malone, FL, Richetta Worlds, Greenwood FL; godson, Erik Blount, Tallahassee, FL; godsister, Adrianne Collins, Marianna, FL; godbrother, Malcolm McKay, Greenwood, FL; close friends, Morris and Valarie Hayes, Jacksonville FL, Larry Pollock, Greenwood FL, Cornel Britt, Marianna, FL, Peggy Brunson, Panama City, FL; extended families: The Balkcom, Keys, Glover, Britt, Miley, and Gibson families, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Remember me when I am gone away, 
Gone far away into the silent land; 
When you can go no more hold me by the hand, 
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day 
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand 
It will be late to counsel then or pray. 
Yet if you should forget me for a while 
And afterwards remember, do not grieve: 
For if the darkness and corruption leave 
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 
Better by far you should forget and smile 
Than that you should remember and be sad.

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