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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>

On May 22, 1981, Anding, while the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association, appeared on an episode of the [[PBS]] television series, ''Louisiana The State We're In,'' which can be accessed on-line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ldma.lpb.org/video_v2/asset-detail/LSWI-0470-03_Mayors|title=Panel Discussion with Three Mayors|publisher=Louisiana Public Broadcasting|accessdate=September 9, 2017.</ref>

On May 22, 1981, Anding, while the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association, appeared on an episode of the [[PBS]] television series, ''Louisiana The State We're In,'' which can be accessed on-line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ldma.lpb.org/video_v2/asset-detail/LSWI-0470-03_Mayors|title=Panel Discussion with Three Mayors|publisher=Louisiana Public Broadcasting|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}</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 Donald Edward "Don" Jones, her fellow Democrat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19861358482so2d87611143.xml|title=Garrett v. Kneass|publisher=leagle.com|date=March 21, 1986|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}</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 Donald Edward "Don" Jones, her fellow Democrat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19861358482so2d87611143.xml|title=Garrett v. Kneass|publisher=leagle.com|date=March 21, 1986|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}</ref>