J. Edward Anderson

Age: 49

Summary: financial planner and managing partner of the insurance company Allmerica Financial Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri who was among one of 230 passengers and crew members reported missing and feared dead in the fiery crash of TWA Flight 800 when the ill-fated Boeing 747 jumbo jet mysteriously exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Long Island, New York shortly after takeoff from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport while he and his wife Patricia Anderson were heading to Paris to meet another couple for a vacation in Italy.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: July 15, 1947

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York