Anel was born on 27 October 1900. He was the son of
Jacob William Unger and
Florence H. McMillian. He married
Esther Claire Ross on 5 December 1934. He married
May Estelle Ratliff on 21 December 1941. Anel died on 19 June 1986 in
Houston,, Harris county,, Texas, at age 85. His body was interred in
West Point,, Clay county,, Mississippi, in Greenwood cemetery. Anel is buried in Section D-1 lot 28.
Graduated from Ole Miss in 1922, worked two years in Jackson, Mississippi as office manager. Then came to Houston, worked for a small oil company for five years in accounting. This company went out of business, and , after ten months, mostly spent at home with his mother, came back to Houston, went to work for then Humble Oil Coppany in October and retired from Humble in August, 1965 after nearly 33 years of service (as secretary for an executive for a while then back into accounting for the remainder of his service). His hobby was breeding daylilies and also treating diploid daylilies to convert to tetraploid, which means doubling of the chromosomes in the cell. (sosurce: letter from Anel M. Unger to Cathryn Stevens postmarked 28 August 1976)
His name is pronounced as AH NELL.