Charles Edgar Andis

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WWII
U.S. Navy

parents:  Charles Elmer Andis and Mary Magdeline "Maggie" Ritcheson

this entire page updated 2018/2019

 

Birth:  09 Jun 1914  Daviess Co, IN
Death:  30 Apr 1971  Louisville, Jefferson, KY
Burial:  Plainville Cemetery, Plainville, Daviess, IN

Marriage #1

Dorothy Elizabeth Roark

24 Jun 1936  Lawrenceville, Lawrence, IL (divorced)

Children

Kenneth Edgar "Andy" Sr Andis 13 Jan 1937
Arlena Faye Andis living
children of Charles Edgar Andis and Dorothy Elizabeth (Roark) Andis

 

Sources
1920 Federal census Steele, Daviess, IN - age 5 (view census information)
1930 Federal census Bogard, Daviess, IN - age 15 (view census information)
1940 Federal census Taylor, Greene, IN - age 15 (view census information)
Random Acts of Kindness Wendy Cranfill, Odon, IN (photo of Charles Edgar's military stone)
Plainville Cemetery, Plainville, IN Viewed and photographed tombstones
Family records Photo belonging to Kim Harper
Family records Records belonging to Michelle (Geary) Andis
Family records Records and photos belonging to Arlena Andis Coffman
Family research Research belonging to Valerie Boman and Debra Branigan

Miscellaneous Information
1) According to Charles's daughter, Arlena (Andis) Coffman: Charles was in the Navy Seabees during WWII.  He was a carpenter, and built roads and a theatre and such.  He drove a bulldozer while clearing the forest in the jungles of New Guinea.

2) From the daughter of Charles Edgar Andis - Arlena (Andis) Coffman:  The Andis's loved to play music, and I remember many a summer's evening when we would all sit in the back yard, and they would gather around and pick and sing. 

My Dad (Charles Edgar Andis) played the banjo, and we still have it today.  It is beautiful with mother-of-pearl inlay on the back. Grandpa (Charles Elmer) played the fiddle and sometimes the "tater bug" which was a mandolin that had stripes on the back like the potato bugs that infested our garden. I was fascinated by it. Uncle Cude (Clarence Clurage) also played the tater bug, and often, cousin Dwight Andis would join in. He was great on the banjo, too. Bob Andis was often there.  I don't remember what he played, but it was probably the guitar. 

I remember just sitting and listening in the night air. Before I was born, another person sometimes joined them. She went to school with my Dad and later went further with her music. Her name was Ramona Riggins who later married Grandpa Jones.  They became the famous Grandpa and Ramona on Hee-Haw. My cousin said her mother remembers that whenever an Andis would hit a wrong note Ramona would cringe. I only remember meeting her once, but I was very young. They moved to Nashville shortly after that, but we were at Uncle Bob and Aunt Eva's and she and Grandpa Jones were there. They played some music with Dad and Bob and then the men went frog gigging all night long. I was about 4 or 5 and tried to stay up the whole night but fell asleep before they got home.

3) We have a newspaper article regarding the shooting of Charles Edgar Andis.

4) We have a copy of Charles Edgar's death records, obituary and funeral card.    

 

Photos and/or signatures

thanks to Arlena (Andis) Coffman for the following photos (except as noted)

Charles Edgar Andis

c. 1914

Charles Edgar Andis

c. 1915

 

Charles Edgar Andis

c. 1916

Charles Edgar Andis

c. 1919

 

Charles Edgar Andis and 
his sister, Wilma Louise

c. 1921
thanks to Kim Harper for this photo

 

Charles Edgar Andis

c. 1942

 

Chares Edgar Andis

unknown date

Charles Edgar Andis

unknown date

 

Charles and Dorothy Andis 
with their children 
Arlena and Kenneth

1948

 

Charles Edgar Andis

Plainville Cemetery
Plainville, Daviess Co, Indiana

photo taken by Valerie Boman

 

Charles Edgar Andis

Plainville Cemetery
Plainville, Daviess Co, Indiana