| OBITUARY
RALPH DAVID SANDERS
Retired assistant school chief, teacher for Garland district
The Dallas Morning News - June 5, 2002
Author: JOE SIMNACHER, Staff Writer
Services were Saturday for Ralph David Sanders, a teacher, principal and
assistant superintendent during his 37-year career with the Garland Independent
School District.
Mr. Sanders, 86, died May 28 of natural causes at Zale Lipshy University
Hospital. Burial was at Perry
Cemetery in Carrollton .
Mr. Sanders taught vocational agriculture in Carrollton and Mesquite before
joining the faculty at Garland High School, where he started the district's
annual livestock show in 1944.
"I don't know how many students were in the first show, but there were a lot,"
he told The Dallas Morning News last year. "We had the first show next to the
square downtown. Then it moved to the square and then back to Garland High
School."
Mr. Sanders was respected by the students and other teachers, said his
granddaughter, Melinda Michelle Anderson of Garland.
"You could trust anything he said," she said. "He was a man of his word."
Mr. Sanders was principal of Daugherty Elementary School when it opened in 1951.
He then became principal of Garland High School for a year before being promoted
to assistant superintendent of business operations in 1953.
He retired in 1981, with 44 years in education.
Mr. Sanders was born and raised in Gilmer, Texas, and received a bachelor's
degree from Sam Houston State College and a master's degree from East Texas
State University, now Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Mr. Sanders was a former director and president of the Garland Lions Club, where
he was a member for 55 years. He was a former Master of the Mesquite Masonic
Lodge, where he was a Master Mason for more than 50 years.
He was a former director and president of the Texas Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Association, former president of the Texas Vocational Association, a
former chairman of the Texas state textbook committee, former president of the
Texas Scottish Rite Association and a member of the Garland and Mesquite
volunteer fire departments.
In addition to his granddaughter, Mr. Sanders is survived by his wife, Loda
Belle Sanders of Garland; and a daughter, Melinda Anderson of Garland.
The Dallas Morning News - June 5, 2002
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