Age 93, Sterling - Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church of Sterling with interim pastor, Rev. Bob Blair officiating. Mrs. Anderson died Saturday in Marlow. Burial will be in the Sterling City Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home of Fletcher. Virginia was born April 1, 1917 in Denton, Oklahoma to Alex and Jessie Delma (Brown) Richardson. The family moved to Sterling in 1928 to open their grocery store. They had operated a general store Southeast of Sterling. She graduated from Sterling High School with the class of 1934. She attended Cameron College and received her Bachelor's Degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She did graduate work and attended extension courses and seminars from both Southwestern and the University of Oklahoma. She began teaching at the age of 22 in a one room school at Cedar Grove. She was the teacher, principal, librarian, nurse and custodian. She also taught at Spring Valley and Blue Beaver Valley near the Wichita Mountains. Virginia taught at Sterling for eleven years, most of which were in the third grade and two years in high school. She was a principal for a number of years. She transferred to Elgin and taught fourth grade until her retirement in 1979. She taught a total of 38 years. In 1971 she won the Comanche County Teachers Association's "Teacher of the Year" award. Virginia belonged to the Rebekah Lodge and the Sterling Town and Country Club. She was also a member of the First Baptist Church where she was the organist for many years and had various other responsibilities. She married Flavis Samuel Besett on August 31, 1938 in front of a little church Southeast of Sterling. They lived for a short time in Minneapolis Minnesota, and then lived in Sterling until his death in 1977. She married Garrett Anderson in March of 1981. They resided on her farm two miles North of Sterling until his death in 1989. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Kay and Hollis D. Howard of Sterling; two granddaughters, Gina Kaye and her husband Brett Barrett of Sterling and Holly Dawn Register of Warren; four great grandchildren, Savanah Barrett, Sydney Barrett, Dawson Register and Reydon Register; a brother, Don Richardson of Lawton; a niece, Jean and her husband Jim Pauling ; and two great nephews, James and Jeffrey Pauling.