POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — A funeral service for longtime Dutchess County Sheriff Adrian “Butch” Anderson shall be held Wednesday, Oct. 6.
The service will begin at 10 a.m. on the Majed J. Nesheiwat Conference Heart (previously the Mid-Hudson Civic Heart), 14 Civic Heart Plaza, Poughkeepsie. Visitation shall be from midday to eight p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, additionally on the conference heart.
Burial shall be non-public.
Anderson, a 50-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Workplace and its elected chief for greater than 20 years, died early Wednesday at his house in Pawling. He was 73 years outdated and in the course of his sixth four-year time period as sheriff.
Anderson joined the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Workplace as a deputy on Dec. 1, 1970, and he later was promoted to detective and assigned to the Main Case Squad. He graduated from the FBI Regulation Enforcement Academy in Quantico, Va., in 1977, and was named Dutchess County undersheriff in 1993. He was elected sheriff in 1999 after which re-elected in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
Anderson additionally served because the mayor of the village of Pawling from 1984 by way of the top of 1991.
Anderson was born July 12, 1948, and was raised in Pawling. He graduated from Pawling Excessive Faculty and was a lifelong resident of Dutchess County.
Andrson’s survivors embrace his spouse, Danielle Giametta Anderson, and 4 youngsters.
Preparations are by the Timothy P. Doyle Funeral House in Poughkeepsie.
