Arthur Anderson was the second light keeper to loose his life in a tragedy at Race Rocks . On January 23 1950,  Arthur Anderson left his wife and two children, (Linda and Jacqueline)  to obtain supplies ashore and never returned. His skiff turned up empty along the American shore near Port Angeles. Anderson was never found.

Jacqueline (Stockard) passed away on May 28, 2011. Jackie arrived in Canada with her parents (having been born in Kent England),  at the age of two . She spent her first year living at Race Rocks. It was here that she lost her dad Arthur to a sudden storm as he tried to return by skiff  to Race Rocks. Her obituary notes that she always had a fear of water but despite this she married a shipwright,and commercial fisherman, Bruce. Stockard.  They had three children.