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Eleven months later, another destructive tornado struck Bossier City after first hitting El Dorado, Arkansas. This twister did at least $100 million in damage. Mayor Anding said that only divine intervention could have kept the death toll so low: "He (God) must have been with us. I can't believe we only had two deaths with the miserable, miserable mess we have out there."<ref name=tornado/> The Bossier City tornado leveled a nearly vacant motor hotel on the city's east side near Louisiana Downs. It injured sixty persons. Anding was compelled to order the arrest of looters and ordered a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The storm leveled homes, schools, trees, and businesses in an eight-mile path two-blocks wide.<ref name=tornado>{{cite web|url=http://www3.gendisasters.com/louisiana/13335/bossier-city-la-tornado-dec-1978?page=1|title=Bossier City, LA Tornado, Dec 1978|author=Stu Beitler|date=July 18, 2009|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref>

Eleven months later, another destructive tornado struck Bossier City after first hitting El Dorado, Arkansas. This twister did at least $100 million in damage. Mayor Anding said that only divine intervention could have kept the death toll so low: "He (God) must have been with us. I can't believe we only had two deaths with the miserable, miserable mess we have out there."<ref name=tornado/> The Bossier City tornado leveled a nearly vacant motor hotel on the city's east side near Louisiana Downs. It injured sixty persons. Anding was compelled to order the arrest of looters and ordered a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The storm leveled homes, schools, trees, and businesses in an eight-mile path two-blocks wide.<ref name=tornado>{{cite web|url=http://www3.gendisasters.com/louisiana/13335/bossier-city-la-tornado-dec-1978?page=1|title=Bossier City, LA Tornado, Dec 1978|author=Stu Beitler|date=July 18, 2009|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref>

Anding was married to the former Patricia Janelle Ball (1935-2012), a paralegal secretary for the United States attorney for the Shreveport-based United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and a resident of Bossier City since 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88448020|title=Patricia Janelle Ball Anding|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref>Anding and his wife are interred at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish.<ref name=meanding>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96212593|title=Marvin E. Anding|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref> Mrs. Anding ran in the special election to choose her husband's successor, buy victory went to businessman Don E. Jones, her fellow Democrat.

Anding was married to the former Patricia Janelle Ball (1935–2012), a paralegal secretary for the United States attorney for the Shreveport-based United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and a resident of Bossier City since 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88448020|title=Patricia Janelle Ball Anding|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref>Anding and his wife are interred at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish.<ref name=meanding>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96212593|title=Marvin E. Anding|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 28, 2014}}</ref> Mrs. Anding ran in the special election to choose her husband's successor, buy victory went to businessman Don E. Jones, her fellow Democrat.

 

 

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