Anderson's life and everything else changed when the
United States declared war on Japan and Germany, entering
World War II on Dec. 8th of the same year. She had turned 20
and still didn't know what was happening with the Goddess of
Oil. "Mr. Allen called me one day to tell me the project had
been shelved because of the war effort. That's all I thought
about it." She worked at a number of jobs after that, including
the FBI, where she was based in Washington. Anderson said
she resigned her post after only a year to marry a young man
she met in Washington. But her fiance was killed, and she
returned to Tulsa. In Tulsa, she found a job at Douglas
Aircraft. She met Bob Anderson, her future husband, when he
was a Spartan School of Aeronautics cadet and pilot. They
were married on Armistice Day, November 11, 1944.

During the ensuing years, she
became an accomplished painter,
one known for the qualities of
  peace and tranquility in the faces of the children
  that are the focus of many canvases. Anderson
  said she didn't see the sculpture again until she
  was in her 50's, when Allen said she could have
    it. Still embarassed over an imagined stigma
    of nudity, she put away the Goddess of Oil.
    Except for telling her husband and close
    family members how it came about, she
      kept mum. So the Goddess that nobody
      saw remained in obscurity.