Retired Alameda Letter Carrier, John Sanderson, Dies At 78

ALAMEDA, CA — John Howard Sanderson, a retired Alameda letter carrier, died March 18 at age 78. He is survived by his wife Pat of Alameda, to whom he had been married for 46 years.

Sanderson was born Oct. 1, 1943, in Kansas City, MO, and was adopted as an infant by Carl and Dorothy Sanderson of Anoka, MN.

His family moved to Sparks, NV in 1947, where he graduated from Sparks High School in 1961.

He was drafted into the Army in 1965 and served in Germany. He was honorably discharged in 1967.

Sanderson loved to travel and in 1974 met Pat Delaney ona cruise to Mexico. They married two years later. John transferred from Nevada to San Francisco, where Pat lived, and then to the Alameda Post Office. In 1986 the couple moved to Alameda.

John and Pat traveled the world. Their vacations took them to India, Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Morocco, Burma, Papua New Guinea, and Timbuktu.

He died at Alameda Hospital of congestive heart failure. No services are planned.