The Rotary Club of Narrabri are progressing with plans to honour the life and work of the late Dr Bob Anderson OAM with the date set for a tribute at the Selina Street Rotary picnic shelter area on Saturday, November 30 at 5.30pm.

A plaque will be unveiled with members of Dr Anderson’s family in attendance.

A sausage sizzle will be served, and Rotary members hope to see everyone in the community who was either a friend of, or worked with, was a patient of or was delivered by the much-loved doctor.

In a fitting tribute, Dr Anderson, a former member of the Rotary Club of Narrabri, will be honoured as part of the Rotary project near his former Selina Street home.

Dr Anderson served as a rural medical practitioner in the district for almost 50 years. He was a visiting surgeon at the Narrabri District Hospital from 1958 to 1998 and the state government medical officer from 1997 to 2007.

Dr Anderson was also a Commonwealth medical officer from 1977 to 2007. He held numerous positions relating to his medical profession in the community, including with the Police Citizens Boys Club, Red Cross Blood Bank, Narrabri Tuberculosis Clinic, early immunisation clinics, Tibbereena Aboriginal Reserve and the Aged Care Assessment Team.

Dr Anderson was an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Narrabri from 1988 to 2007 and then a full member until his death in November 2015.

Dr Anderson’s dedication to the community and medical profession was honoured through a testimonial dinner hosted by the Narrabri District Hospital board in 1987, as Rotarian of the Year in 2003/04, a recipient of Rotary’s Paul Harris Fellowship in 2005 and he was ultimately awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2008. Dr Anderson died aged 91 on November 19, 2015.

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