Longtime Palm Beach resident John Wendell "Jack" Anderson II, an industrialist and sportsman, died Thursday, July 17, 2008, at King Edward Hospital in Hamilton, Bermuda. He was 84.
Born Sept. 16, 1923 in Pittsburgh, he was the son of Wendell W. and Suzanne (McFeely) Anderson.
After a British elementary education in Bermuda, he graduated from the Hotchkiss School.
He entered Yale University in 1941 but left after Pearl Harbor to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, he served as a first lieutenant in the European theater. Familiar with the French language, culture and terrain from childhood vacations spent in Normandy, Mr. Anderson was assigned to parachute behind enemy lines on intelligence-gathering missions.
After his military service, he returned to Yale and obtained a bachelor's degree in international relations in 1947.
Mr. Anderson went to work for Bundy Tubing Co., the family firm where his father was CEO. He founded the company's international division and in 1975 became vice chairman of the Bundy Corp. and president of Bundy International.
During his tenure with Bundy, he built the company into a multinational force. A British corporation, Tubing International, acquired the company in 1990.
An accomplished sailor, fisherman and golfer, he was a crewmember aboard Escapade, the family-owned racing yawl that won both the Detroit-Mackinac and Newport-Bermuda races.
In 1953, he was a member of a deep-water ichthyologic expedition for Yale University's Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, in the gamefish waters off Cabo Blanco, Peru.
He was a member of the winning U.S. Tuna Team in 1965 and served as the team's captain in 1966.
He was a trustee of the International Game Fishing Association for 30 years, 20 of them as vice-chairman. His catches include a 1,318-pound black marlin taken in 57 minutes off the Great Barrier Reef.
Mr. Anderson was married twice. His first marriage, to Finland-born model Solveig Eklund, ended in divorce. The couple had two sons.
In 1958, he married Hungarian-born Elisabeth DeMezey-Feher, a television personality known professionally as Lisa Ferraday. Mr. Anderson adopted her daughter from a previous marriage. Mrs. Anderson died in 2004.
He was a member of the Everglades and Bath & Tennis clubs, the Silverbacks and the Coconuts.
Mr. Anderson is survived by his sons, John Wendell Anderson III, of Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Christopher William Anderson, of Cairns, Australia; his daughter, Carrie Anderson-Kincaid, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; and his grandchildren, Blake, Evan, Lakin, Laura, Sierra and Catherine.
His brother, Wendell William Anderson Jr., and sister, Lindsay Anderson Sagar, preceded him in death.
Mr. Anderson's ashes, and those of his late wife, will be scattered together on the reef in front of their summer home, ''Bellevue Beach House'' in Paget, Bermuda.
The ceremony will be private.
A memorial service is scheduled at 11:30 am, Saturday at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, 141 S. County Road.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial tributes be made to the International Game Fishing Association, 300 Gulf Stream Way, Dania Beach, FL 33004.
