Oda Anderson’s owned goats for years. He’s touching Bambi as Lucy watches while Snowball is preoccupied. WLAF’s Jim Freeman snapped this photo of Anderson on his 90th birthday in July.

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF) – It was the end of an era when career barber Oda Anderson retired in 1994. Anderson told WLAF News last summer that he retired because he needed to go fishing. The sad news came in to WLAF last Friday afternoon that the personable Anderson passed away earlier that morning.

Today, WLAF looks back at Anderson’s life and career in a story written on his 90th birthday last July.

Oda Anderson, the career barber, sports an always neat haircut as his daughter Linda looks on in this July 24, 2022, photo.

Thanks for the memories, Oda. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 02/13/2023-6AM)