It is so very painful when senseless tragedy happens on a special occasion such

as Christmas Eve and when one of our extended postal family is involved, it is

especially sorrowful and deeply tragic. For Judy Anderson a rural carrier and

her husband, Wayne, it is the worst of tragedies. They raised a family and were

approaching retirement aged about 61. Some years ago they had purchased a

property adjoining their own and a mobile home was placed on the lot some 200

yards from the Anderson's home. Wayne and Judy's daughter, Michelle lived in the

mobile home with her boyfriend, Joe McEnroe.

Sometime on Christmas Eve daughter Michelle and Joe McEnroe came to the Anderson

home and shot Wayne and Judy. McEnroe then dragged the bodies out to the shed

when Son Scott came to visit with his wife, Erica and their two children, aged 6

and 3. They were also shot by McEnroe.

Judy Anderson was a well known and well liked local in the area. Their bodies

were found by a family friend when Judy failed to report for work on December 26th.

How horrible to lose three generations of a family on Christmas Eve. How must

more horrible is it that one of the two murderers was the daughter they

nurtured, supported and helped even to the day she and her boyfriend killed

them. She killed her father, her mother, her brother, her sister-in-law, her

niece and her nephew all on Christmas Eve.

It is a torment that is hard to bear for those who knew her and for those of her

extended postal family. In memoriam for Judy Anderson and her husband Wayne, an

engineer with Boeing and for their family members. This Christmas season when

our hearts are broken and our souls heavy, let us take a moment to pause in

memory of the Andersons and the lives they touched.

John Amtsfield

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