Myrl Lindsay Anderson

Myrl Lindsay Anderson

Educator

PHS Class of 1947

Myrl Anderson was born in Payson in the year 1929, then graduated from Payson High School in 1947. She spent her formative childhood years during the Great Depression and her teenage years while the country was engaged in World War 2. After PHS, she attended Brigham Young University and graduated with a bachelor's in teaching. Armed with her college education, she returned to our community as a teacher, teaching health and physical education at Payson Junior High School for 26 years.

The motto she loved to repeat and live by was:

Good. Better. Best. May you never rest, until your good is better and your better best!

It is difficult to quantify the impact that she had on generations of Payson's youth because her influence was so deep and so broad. Mrs. Anderson had a special way of seeing and bringing out the best in others. Talking to her former students, the most common thing they say about her is that she made them feel important and helped them to see what they could become.

In addition to her tireless work as an educator she was an active member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

Inducted 2006