Liam Anderson

**William Michael Anderson** (February 5, 1964 – February 2, 2020) was the older brother of Luke Anderson. He was the eldest son of Leonard Anderson (1941–1998) and Millicent Anderson (née Obic, 1943–2020). He worked as a businessman following into his father's footsteps. In 1999, Liam married and had three children, Mary (born 2001), Liam Jr. (born 2004) and Ellen (born 2008). On January 26, 2020, Luke went to see his brother for a little visit. Liam told Luke that he had been complaining about a really bad headache that he's been having for about a week. Luke told Liam to meditate, drink water for hopes of it going away. However, it didn't go away. One week later on February 2, at 3:30 a.m., Liam died in his sleep from what was reported to be a heart attack (according to his widow). He was just three days shy of his 56th birthday and two months before his mother’s death. He was buried right below his father at Elmwood Cemetery on his 56th birthday (February 5). One month after his death, Luke realized that Liam not only complained about having a headache, he also felt abdominal pain coming from his chest. Liam's cause of death certificate says that he had suffered a "coronary thrombosis" from the result of his headache, which caused him to lose consciousness on February 1, but was still reportedly alive at the time.

## Life and career

Liam was born on February 5, 1964 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the eldest of five children of Leonard Anderson (1941–1998), a lawyer who originally wanted to become an actor, but never got the opportunity to become one and his wife Millicent Anderson (née Obic, 1943–2020) a Croatian-born nurse who worked at Concordia Hospital from 1964 to 2019. He has four younger siblings, Luke, Lisa, Logan and Laura. When Liam was nine years old, he smoked his first cigarette. From there, he developed an addiction that caused him to smoke a pack of day from the age of ten until his death. Because of that, Liam’s father bought an entire carton of cigarettes from a 7-Eleven in the Anderson’s neighbourhood (Elmwood-East Kildonan). Liam did try quitting in 1985, but couldn’t because everything he tasted made him feel like he was nicotine. Luke stated that his brother’s smoking habit began while he was in school.

> ”[My] brother began smoking when he was ten years old. It all started when he and his friend were in a dumpster. They notice a pack, and it had one cigarette left. So, my brother and his friend went to hide in a restroom. Out of nowhere, my father opened up the door. He saw Liam had a cigarette. He was ticked! After that, my father decided to punish him by making him smoke an entire carton. Liam didn’t like that. And that is why I don’t smoke. And I also don’t drink either!” – Luke Anderson
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## Trivia

* Liam's middle name Michael comes from his paternal grandfather's middle name, Lawrence **Michael** Anderson.
* He was buried alongside with his father at Elmwood Cemetery on his 56th birthday.
* Liam is the only one of his siblings that was alive when his great-grandmother Annie Kachacheva was alive. She died one year after his birth over in Kyiv.
* Luke stated that his brother was always the smartest Anderson sibling and that he had an IQ of 190, just 20 IQ higher than his mother.
	+ This can also explain why Liam was so intelligent with science when he was in school.
* Liam graduated with Academic Excellence at Elmwood High School in 1982 but didn't go to University of Manitoba to study science.
	+ He dropped out of University of Winnipeg one year after attending.
* Liam isn't that fondling into the Croatian heritage of his mother that Luke took part of back in 2001.
* He was two years old when he took his first trip outside of Canada.
* Liam began smoking when he was 9 years old after one of his friends noticed a cigarette over at their school. The two went to light it, but was caught by Liam’s father.
	+ Because of that, Leonard made Liam smoked an entire carton of cigarettes that he bought from a 7-Eleven as a punishment.
		- From there, Liam smoked a pack every single day from when he was 15 until his death.
			* This could also be the reason why Liam died prematurely but he had no signs of having lung cancer since both his father and grandfather were smokers throughout their life.