Robert Corbin Anderson

Robert Corbin Anderson
June 29, 2001 – June 21, 2024
Robert Corbin Anderson, 22, of Sweet Home, Corbin for anyone who knew him. Born June 29, 2001 in Albany, Oregon to Megan (Vassar) Clark and Robert "Jeff" Anderson. Their first born, Corbin passed away June 21, 2024 in a fatal car accident at Foster Lake after a day filled with love and laughs with his family.
Corbin spent most of his childhood years in Sweet Home before moving to Lebanon and finishing out his elementary, junior high, and high school years. Corbin was a varsity football star. Helping lead his team to a state championship in 2016 with his best friend and little brother, Gatlyn Anderson, by his side. Breaking many records for himself and the team. A lot of people knew him as #70. Corbin finished his years back in Sweet Home living with his girlfriend and two daughters.
After graduating, Corbin quickly joined the timber industry. Taking after one of his biggest role models, his father, as a logger. Corbin loved logging. All the strength, blood, sweat and tears that went into it. It was his life. He got to log along side two of his best friends, Nick Rice and Lane Blisseck. Corbin recently left his love for logging to pursue something safer and closer to home, to be with his girls more. Taking on a role at Oliver Industrial as a traveling millwright. With little to no experience they took him on. They saw what everyone saw in Corbin – his hard work, dedication, perseverance, and willingness to learn anything.
Corbin was the definition of a gentle giant. Anyone who's ever met him can attest he always had a smile. The kindest, most loving man to walk this earth. Willing to love and accept anyone he crossed paths with. He was the life of any party. He knew no stranger. Always including and respecting anyone from any walk of life with no judgement. Corbin loved being with his people in any way – sitting at his house or their house, working on rigs, or just standing around. He loved every second of getting to be surrounded by friends, spending most his days creating lifelong aunties and uncles for his girls. Corbin loved smoking weed. He was definitely on a first name basis with all the dispensary's in town. His favorite being Going Green and always coming home with new stickers from his favorite tender, Jeanette. Quickly sticker slapping his computer desk and texting one of his best friends, Brody Burright "Wanna poke some smot??" or something else that would make him laugh. Corbin could and would do anything he set his mind to. Burning any wood he could get his hands on, taking apart rigs, always having a friend or his father-in-law, Tom Links, there to help him or just to have company. He was always helping others. His kind heart could never tell a soul no. Everyone knew they could always count on him. Spending time at home, he loved video games. Often inviting his cousin, Vinny, over to try new set ups or play together. Corbin was an avid collector of everything. From any sticker he could get his hands on to posters and signs, many of his treasures were found logging. Hemlock warts and slabs of wood he had endless ideas for. Always revamping his spaces with his new collections and memories from lifetimes before and of his family now. But with all that, his biggest thing was making sure his people knew they were loved. One way was talking with his mini-me sister, Bella, every day. Always calling his mom just to tell her he loves her and see how things were. His pride and joy were his two little girls, Maryn and Marleaux, and his girlfriend, Ivy Links. He always came home with some kind of present big or small for his girls. His love for his family was unmatched. Creating two of the biggest daddy's girls this world has ever seen. I hope from all this, anyone reading can see his kindness and love for this world and life. I hope more people can live like Corbin in one way or another. No words can truly describe how amazing of a man, father, partner, son, brother, nephew, grandson, and cousin he was. LIVE LIKE CORBIN.
Corbin is survived by his long time girlfriend, Ivy Links, of Sweet Home and his two daughters: Maryn, 2, and Marleaux, 1; his mother, Megan Clark of Lebanon and her partner, JR Clark; his father, Robert "Jeff" Anderson, of Sweet Home and his partner, Jodi Burton; brothers: Gatlyn Anderson of Lebanon, Dylan Clark of Sweet Home, Alex Meads of Sweet Home and McLain Beaudoin of Lebanon; sisters: Isabella Jackson, Kinnley Clark and Kenzie Martin of Lebanon; grandmother, Roxy O'Brien and her partner Richard O'Brien of Sweet Home; aunt, Brittany Paddock and uncle, Jimmy McClintock of Sweet Home; cousin, Vinny Paddock of Sweet Home; uncles: Chris Vassar of Albany and Matt Vassar of Lebanon; cousins: Nalani, Maddy, and Kendyll; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law: Rylee and Zach Gascon of Albany, Zoe Links and Ethan Wible of Sweet Home, Phoebe Links and Austen Miller of Sweet Home and Lucy Links; nieces: Paisley, Zoey, Mila, Korra, and Sunday and nephews: Weston and Lennyn Meads, Silas, and Judah and many, many lifelong friends.
He is preceded in death by his grandmother, "Nanny" Margaret "Maggie" Winslow (2021); grandfather, Robert "Irwin" Anderson (2023); family dog, Topper; aunt-in-law, Cathy Canfield (2021) and many great grandparents to welcome him with open arms.
Donations are accepted to the family at http://gofund.me/072eblld. If you'd like to donate in a different way in Corbin's name, we ask that you just pay it forward in some way. Pay for the cars order behind you in line. Buy someone a beer next time you're at the bar. Buy a homeless person food. Don't buy them a hotel room on your card though, Corbin learned that the hard way. And Lastly, we ask you to LIVE LIKE CORBIN. And remember, Legends Never Die.
Celebration of life will be 3 pm Saturday, July 27th at Sweet Home Elks Lodge. Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements. www.sweethomefuneral.com.