Funeral Service: 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 22, 2016 Chapel of Narfason's 102 1st Street NW Narfason's Funeral Chapel & Crematorium Wadena, SK Clifton was born on August 14, 1919, to Oscar and Hillive Anderson. He was the first of three boys born to Oscar and Hillive. Clifton attended Harrow School in the Hendon District until Grade 9, after which he boarded in Wadena while completing two years of high school at the Red Brick School. His old notebooks from school reflected a dedicated and talented student. Clifton developed his hunting skills at an early age, as his mother would give him two bullets to get a rabbit or partridge for supper. A passion and love for the outdoors grew on him, and he became an avid fishermen, hunter and trapper. He had a cabin and trap line in the Raven Lake area, north of Lintlaw, SK, an area with an abundance of beaver. Clifton would harvest many furs in the area not only as a hobby, but also to provide for his family. Clifton noted in the Paswegin history book that in 1979 he harvested 60 beaver, 30 mink, numerous muskrat, coyote, and a fox as well as raccoon furs. Clifton also loved to hunt big game animals and went on annual moose and deer hunts with his sons, grandsons, nephews, and many friends. After he completed his schooling, Clifton, like many other young adults, worked various jobs in the area. During the mid-1930s, Clifton vaccinated horses during an outbreak of sleeping sickness and did Census enumeration. Prior to World War II, he worked on the farm and for the Paswegian Rural Telephone Company, knowledge and experience that would later lead to his placement in the Signal Corps division (a group tasked with intercepting encrypted Japanese communications and relaying them to the codebreakers) when he joined the army in the spring of 1941. Clifton’s army training took him across Canada, staying in camps in Regina, Kingston (Ontario), Val Cartier (Quebec), Debert (Nova Scotia), Sussex (New Brunswick) and Pat Bay (Vancouver Island). When asked about the War, he would always mention passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco during his journey to Australia, the flying fish and beautiful evenings in the China Sea, and the shark that was caught on the trip home from the South Pacific where he was stationed during the war. When the War ended, Clifton returned home by train, where his mother and his sweetheart Gladys were waiting for him in Wadena, SK. On June 3, 1946, Clifton wed the love of his life Gladys Karin Wallster, after which they purchased land to farm and build their family. In the winter of 1948-49 Clifton took vocational agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. In the late 1940s Clifton bought a small crawler tractor and did custom breaking. In 1950 the crop froze and in 1951 hail wiped the crop out, so Clifton and Gladys went into the chicken business raising laying hens for selling and hatching. Clifton and Gladys had two sons, Wayne Brian Anderson in 1951 and Dean Lee Anderson in 1955. They also raised cattle, milked cows and shipped cream. Clifton and Gladys retired from the poultry business in 1970 but remained active on the farm raising cattle and harvesting grain for the next 40 years. In his later years, Clifton always found the energy to drive the combine, never missing an opportunity to help bring in the harvest, putting in long hours even into his early nineties. His humble demeanor, kind heart, and vast knowledge were treasured by all those who had the opportunity to farm and hunt with him over the years. Clifton and Gladys lived a long and full life together, travelling to Northern Saskatchewan every August to fish and pick cranberries and blueberries. They moved off of the farm into Wadena in the fall of 2013, residing in Spruce Manor until Clifton moved to Pleasant View in the fall of 2014. Clifton passed away on October 16, 2016, embraced by family. He is survived by his sons, Wayne (Gloria) and Dean (Roxanne); seven grandchildren, Kristal (Tony), Kelly (Chelsea), Leigh (Kirby), Janelle (Stephen), Jessica (Tyler), Jolene, Luke (Lindsay); one great-grandchild, Preslee, and many nieces and nephews. Clifton was predeceased by Gladys, his wife of 69 years, and his brothers, Bert and Orville.