The Anderson family and the Troy Payne family all came to Ralls, in May of 1952. They had bought out the old Benton Drug Store, and it was old - - formerly having been owned by the Spencer Family and even before that to Bill Marr.
The fixtures for the drug store were the ones originally installed by Bill Marr. One of the old pull drawers was labeled "Morphine" and another "Opium". These drugs along with all other "narcotic drugs", were removed from open sale in drug stores by the "Harrison narcotic Law" of 1912.
Bill Anderson had spent a lifetime in some aspect of the drug business, starting as a "Soda Jerk" in 1920 and working successfully as "front end salesman", wholesale order clerk, pricer, phone-order clerk, drug buyer, salesman calling on the retail stores, student, and pharmaceutical manufacturers´ salesman. He was travelling for a pharmaceutical manufacturer just prior to moving to Ralls.
The name of the store was changed from Benton Drug Store to Ralls Pharmacy in 1952 at the time of the purchase and is still operated under that name.
The Andersons had two young daughters when moving to Ralls, Sue Ann and Sallie. Both girls finished high school in Ralls and went on to seek higher education. Neither daughter returned to Ralls to make a home after finishing school.
The "old store" was abandoned in 1960 when Bill and Troy moved into a new store with all new fixtures and which was more than twice as large as the old location. The new location is still in operation as a drug store.
Bill had a severe heart attack in 1967 and had to stop all business activities. On Nov. 1, 1967, he sold out his interests in the store to his partner, Troy O. Payne. Bill went into retirement. Troy Payne died in October, 1974.
Sue Anderson married Ocie Forbes and they have three children.
Sallie Anderson married Brady Jones.
Source: "A History of Crosby County 1876-1977" © Crosby County Historical Commission 1978; Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas.
RALLS (Special) - Services for William D. "Bill" Anderson, 73, of Ralls will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Howard Marcum, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Anderson died Saturday morning after suffering an apparent heart attack while parking his car in downtown Ralls. Justice of the Peace Jim Travis ruled the death of natural causes.
The Tyler native was a retied pharmacist, and had lived in Ralls since 1950.
Survivors include his wife, Pearl; two daughters, Sue Forbes of Ralls and Sallie Jones of Norfolk, Va.; a sister, Loraine Carpenter of Reed Springs, Ark.; and three grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1979
RALLS — Graveside services for Pearl Anderson, 92, of Ralls were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 11, 2001, at Ralls Cemetery with Bud Kidwell officiating.
Burial was under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died on Friday, March 9, 2001, at Lubbock´s Covenant Medical Center.
She was born on Oct. 1, 1908, in Denton County.
She married W. D. "Bill" Anderson on Dec. 25, 1955, in Ralls. He died on June 2, 1979.
She attended high school in Floyd County and later finished nursing school at Northwest Texas Hospital in 1931. She practiced as a registered nurse from 1931 to 1987, with 32 of those years at Crosbyton Hospital as nursing supervisor.
Survivors include two daughters, Sallie Jones of Pueblo, Colo., and Sue Forbes of Ralls; three sisters, Edwin Cooke of Carlsbad, N.M., Rosa Ferrier of Los Fresnos and Blanche Wurst of Muleshoe; three grandchildren, Rusty Forbes of Brownwood, Joanie Speer of Amarillo, and Micheal Forbes of Houston; and five great-grandchildren.
©The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, March 16, 2001, page 6
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