Luida and Lewis Sanders were Wisconsin natives, and the children of Charles and Ida Sanders. Luida was born in 1917 in Rhinelander, and Lewis was born in Antigo in 1919. Both completed a two year rural teaching course at Central State Teachers College, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and enlisted in the Army in World War II. Luida served in W.A.C. Detachments #1 and #3, and worked as a secretary, recruitment officer, and in a hospital. Lewis served in Company I, 63d Division in World War II, and was later recalled to service during the Korean conflict.
Luida taught in country schools in the Town of Poland, Brown County, and Wittenberg from 1939 to 1943. After completion of her term of army service (1943-1946), she received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1949, a Masters in public administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1960, and a Masters in health education in 1964 from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1949 to 1950, she taught at the Dudgeon School, Madison, Wisconsin, and in 1950 began to work for the State Board of Health in which she later (1956-66) served as Director of Health Education. From 1966 to her retirement in January 1975, she was Health Supervisor for the Department of Public Instruction.
After the Korean War, Lewis taught at a country school in Shawano County, and was the principal of a two-room school in Lake Tomahawk. He then worked as a machine operator for the Buckstaff Company of Oshkosh until his death in 1968.
