ANDERSON, Erik W. (Age 38) Passed away February 19, 2009. He was born February 15, 1971 in El Cajon, CA and graduated Mtn View High School in Vancouver, WA in 1989. Veteran of the Persian Gulf war and honorably discharged from the US Army in 1991. Graduated with a bachelor's degree from Linfield College in 1996 where he met his wife Mariza, they married in 1999. He completed his Master's from Eastern WA in Exercise Science and Pedagogy in 2003. Throughout his 13-year teaching and coaching career, between Clark College in Vancouver, WA and Spokane Community College, Erik achieved numerous awards and championship titles. Erik was passionately dedicated to his family, friends, the students and athletes he coached, taught, and mentored. Survived by his wife four year old daughter, one year old daughter; parents; brother; sister; grandmother and grandfather; and his friends whom he also regarded as family. A public Memorial Service will be held at 4:00PM Thursday, February 26, 2009 at the Walter S. Johnson Sports Center gymnasium, Bldg. 5, 1810 N. Greene St. (doors will open at 3:00PM) on the Spokane Community College campus. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions should be made to any Spokane Teachers Credit Union location or mailed to Erik Anderson Memorial Fund, 106 W. Nora Ave. Spokane 99205. Published on 2/25/2009 Spokesman-Review