Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 1, 1942 Death Strikes Twice In Springs Family Mr. and Mrs. T.P. Walters, accompanied by their daughter, Barbara, and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Walters, returned to Rock Springs Tuesday night from Wellsville, Utah, where they were called because of the death of Mrs. Walters’ father, Peter Maughan, 83, who died Friday at his home. While in Wellsville, their visit was further saddened by the death of Mr. Walters’ sister, Mrs. Martha Walters Douglas, wife of Fred E. Douglas of Wellsville. Mrs. Douglas died at 6:15 p.m. Sunday at her home. She is survived by her husband, four sons, three daughters, 16 grandchildren, three sisters and two brothers. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the LDS church there. --- Green River Star, Jan 2, 1942 H. C. HUCKETT SUCCUMBS AT PUYALLUP, WASH. Word has been received here of the death of H. J. Huckett, former Green River resident, at Puyallup, Wash., on Saturday, December 20. Huckett, born in Kansas City, Mo., first began work on the Union Pacific at Laramie in 1917 as an engine dispatcher. He was transferred to Green River on October 1, 1918, where he served in various capacities until his resignation on September 27, 1931. Huckett was 63 years old and is survived by a wife, Ethel; and three children. Funeral services were held on Monday in Puyallup. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 3, 1942 RITES SET FOR GREEN RIVER COLORED WOMAN Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Sunday from the Rogan chapel for Mrs. Bessie P. Ross, 71, colored, who died in Green River January 1. Mrs. Ross, who had been a resident of south Green River for 35 years, was born July 22, 1870, in Florence, Ala. Surviving are a daughter, Claudia Young; two sons, John and Doyle Young, all of Green River. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 3, 1942 Evanston Woman Expires In Utah EVANSTON, Jan. 2 (Special)—Amanda Adeline Gunn, 61, widow of George Gunn, died at the home of her son, Heber Gunn, at Upton, Utah, Wednesday following a long illness. She was born at Marion County, Alabama, March 8, 1880, the daughter of James and Rebecca Maness, and had resided in Evanston for the past 22 years. She had formerly lived at Randolph, Utah. Her husband passed away in 1938. Surviving are five sons and one daughter: Melvin and Alfred Gunn, Evanston; Ben G. Gunn, Pocatello, Idaho; Charles Gunn, Salt Lake City; Heber Gunn, Upton, Utah; and Mrs. Woodrow Goodwin, Salt Lake City; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Goldsberry, Logan, Utah, and Mrs. William Hall, Hyrum, Utah; two brothers, Phillip Maness, Hyrum, Utah, and George Maness, Salt Lake City, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the First L.D.S. Ward Chapel under the direction of Bishop Wilford M. Price of the Second Ward. Interment will be in the family plot in the City cemetery under the direction of the Bryan Mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 3, 1942 Evanston Teacher’s Father Dies Of Accident Injuries EVANSTON, Jan. 2 (Special)—Word has reached Evanston of the death of Mrs. Ernestine Kabell’s father, Mr. Faus at Boulder, Colo. Faus died from injuries after being run over by an automobile and was buried at Boulder last Friday. Mrs. Kabell is an instructor in the Evanston Senior High school, and left for her home in Colorado December 18. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 3, 1942 Harris Services Held Wednesday EVANSTON, Jan. 2 (Special)—Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Fowkes Harris, who passed away at her home Saturday night of a heart ailment, were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the First L.D.S. ward chapel by Bishop Harold E. Brough. The invocation was given by David Dean and at the benediction by William M. Harris. Music was furnished by the First Ward choir with Mrs. Ivar C. Butts as accompanist and John Neilson directing. The anthems were “Abide With Me” and “O, My Father.” Mondell White sang a solo, “Sing Me to Sleep” and the closing musical selection was a solo, “Going Home,” by Mrs. Louis Cook. Speakers were Bishop Brough, J.I. Williams and a son-in-law of the deceased, Landel S. Merrill, of Burlingame, Calif. The flowers were in charge of the Relief society. Ephraim Harris dedicated the grave. Burial was in the City cemetery under the direction of the Bryan mortuary. Pallbearers were William M. Harris, Leonard Cook, Daniel Gerrard, Leslie Starkey, Ivar C. Butts, Verl Griggs, Lester Dean and Ted Harrison. Sons of the deceased, Irvin H. Harris and Clarence W. Harris, of Burley, Ida.; Walter M. Harris of Salt Lake City and their families; her daughters, Mrs. F.L. McCarty of Ogden, Mrs. Robert C. Howard, who flew from Brownsville, Tex.; Mrs. Landell S. Merrill of Burlingame, Calif.; Mr. Merrill and Mr. McCarty attended the services. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 3, 1942 Evanston Resident Since 1899 Dies After Long Illness EVANSTON, Jan. 2 (Special)—Cora Funk West, 61, resident of Evanston since 1899, died at an Evanston hospital Thursday night following a long illness. Mrs. West was born in Canton, Mo., on Christmas day in 1880. She was a member of the Woman’s Benefit association and an honorary member of the Ladies Literary club. Her husband, Jim West, died about 16 years ago. No known relatives survive. Funeral services will be held at 11 o’clock Monday morning from St. Paul’s Episcopal church with the Rev. Dudley B. McNeil officiating. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 6, 1942 C.A. Philbrick Succumbs At Hospital Sunday Charles Alfred Philbrick, 72, a resident of the Green River and Granger area all his life, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 12:30 a.m. Sunday after being in the hospital 25 days. He was employed as a pumpman at Granger prior to his illness. Surviving in addition to his wife, Mae Philbrick of Granger, are three sons and three daughters. Two sons, Charles Jr. and John, live in Rock Springs, and a third son, Nels, lives at Manila, Utah. Two daughters, Mrs. Jack Zimmerman and Mrs. Howard Petrie, live in Green River, and a third, Mrs. Ida Nesbit, resides at Ventura, Calif. Funeral services will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesay, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 6, 1942 Daniel Hogan Dies At Hospital Sunday No funeral arrangements had been made yesterday for Daniel Hogan, 81, a resident of Green River for seven years, who died at the Wyoming General hospital at 12:30 p.m. Sunday after having been in the hospital for 19 days. Hogan has no known surviving relatives, was a bachelor and had not been employed recently. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 7, 1942 Philbrick Rites Will Be Today Funeral services for Charles Alfred Philbrick, 72, long time resident of Sweetwater county, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. today, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery, Green River. Philbrick, who was 72 years old, died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday morning after being ill nearly a month. Surviving are his wife, Mae, of Granger, three sons, Charles Jr., and John of Rock Springs and Nels of Manila, Utah; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Zimmerman and Mrs. Howard Petrie of Green River, and Mrs. Ida Nesbit of Ventura, Calif. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Green River Star, Jan 9, 1942 Bessie P. Ross, Colored, Is Buried in G. R. Sunday Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Rogan Mortuary chapel for Mrs. Bessie P. Ross, 71, colored, a resident of Green River for the past 35 years. Mrs. Ross was born in Florence, Ala., July 22, 1870. Surviving are two sons, John and Doyle Young and a daughter, Claudia of Green River. Burial was made in Riverview cemetery Sunday. --- Green River Star, Jan 9, 1942 DANIEL HOGAN DIED SUNDAY AT HOSPITAL Daniel Hogan, a resident of Green River for several years, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Hogan, who has no known survivors and has been unemployed recently. Funeral arrangements were in charge of Rogan Mortuary. --- Green River Star, Jan 9, 1942 C. A. Philbrick Buried Here On Wednesday Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p. m. for Charles Alfred Philbrick, 72, of Granger, life-long resident of western Wyoming, who died Saturday, midnight at Wyoming General hospital after a 25-day illness. The Rev. A. L. Jones of St. John's Episcopal church conducted services in the Rogan Mortuary chapel and short graveside services at Riverview cemetery in Green River where burial was made. Pallbearers were M. J. Dankowski, William Evers, Ira Bishopp, Joe Bagley, Jr., T. S. Taliaferro, 3rd, and James Barnhart. Mr. Philbrick, and twin brother, James, were the first white babies to be born in South Pass City, while that historic mining town was still menaced by Indians. He was born on July 26, 1869, associated with the Taliaferro Livestock company for years, later going in ranching business near Big Island where he lived for fifteen years, prior to his moving to Granger where he became the town marshal and water commissioner. The family had moved to Green River about 55 years ago. Mr. Philbrick grew up in the atmosphere of the old west and knew many of the Wyoming empire makers. His knowledge of pioneer cattlemen and sheepmen of Wyoming was almost unequalled. Mr. Philbrick served as deputy sheriff of Sweetwater county under Charles Young and again under Matt McCourt. Father of Mr. Philbrick and his twin brother, James, who died here in 1937, was J. W. Stillman, pioneer justice of the peace in South Pass City, serving both under the jurisdiction of Dakota and Wyoming territories. While the twins were young, their mother remarried to James Philbrick, another pioneer of the old west. The boys took the name of their stepfather. Surviving Mr. Philbrick are his widow, May F. Wisdom Philbrick, three daughters, Mrs. Jack Zimmerman and Mrs. Howard Petre of Green River and Mrs. Ada Nisbet of Ventura, Calif.; three sons, Charles Philbrick, Jr., and John Philbrick of Rock Springs and Nels Philbrick of Manila, Utah, and eight grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 10, 1942 Horiuchi Infant Rites To Be Today A son born to Mr. and Mrs. T. Horiuchi, Japanese, who live at Salt Wells, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 9:45 a.m. yesterday, six hours after birth. Funeral services will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. today, the Rev. K.E. Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. The infant had been named Kenneth. Rogan mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 10, 1942 Rites For Mestas Infant On Sunday Funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mestas, 514 R street, will be held from the Rogan chapel 2 p.m. Sunday, the rev. E.E. Acheson officiating. The 10-day-old child passed away at the Wyoming General hospital at 9:40 p.m. Thursday. Survivors include the parents, one brother, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fidel Mestas, all of Rock Springs. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 10, 1942 Etna Youth Dies In Salt Lake AFTON, Jan. 9 (Special)—Duncan Roberts, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Roberts of Etna, died Wednesday at the L.D.S. hospital in Salt Lake City form “purpura hemorrhagic,” an acute disease of the blood, after a three weeks’ illness. Duncan was graduated last year from the Star Valley High school. He is survived by his parents, six brothers, Lorean, Sylvester, David, Dee, Ardean and DeLain; two sisters, Adell and De Ona, all of Etna. The body will be brought to Etna for funeral services and burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 13, 1942 COTTLE RITES TODAY IN GREEN RIVER Funeral services will be held from the Masonic Temple in Green River at 8 a.m. today for George Samuel Cottle, 48, who died at his home in Green River Saturday afternoon. The Rev. A.L. Jones will officiate and burial will be in Riverview cemetery. Cottle, who had been a resident of the community for 34 years, was employed by the Union Pacific railroad as a machinist. He was of English descent, his parents having been born in Wales. Survivors are his wife, Pearl, of Green River; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Twitchell of Green River and Mrs. Lilian Hudak of Rock Springs; one son, George Samuel Cottle Jr., Green River; two brothers, David and Roger, both of Green River; and his mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Cottle of Green River. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 14, 1942 JURY HOLDS CONDUCTOR SHOULD NOT HAVE USED BOXCAR IN SCALE TEST A coroner’s jury, after listening to testimony concerning the violent death of Harry Riley, 63, who was crushed beneath the Dines tipple slack bin as it was struck by a boxcar about 4:10 p.m. Monday, ruled last night that Riley, being the conductor and in charge of the scale testing operation, should not have allowed by boxcar to be used next to the scale car. Said the verdict: “We the jury find that Harry Riley met his death by a slack bin falling on him, caused by a boxcar being too high and not giving sufficient clearance to go under the slack bin. The conductor should not have permitted the boxcar to be used for the scale tester, since he was in charge of the operation.” It was explained at the inquest, presided over by Coroner J. Warden Opie, that the conductor was in general charge of the testing, although it was not always customary for the conductor to ride on the scale car as it was being used in the test. The jury, comprised by Mike Zackovich, Barney Taggart and Al Cox, heard testimony from three brakemen, the engineer, two scale testers, and the examining physician. None of the workmen gave any specific reason why the train of ten cars had not been stopped before the boxcar struck the overhead timbers, sending the slack bin crashing down upon the scale car on which Conductor Riley was riding. All of the workmen testified that they were not aware that the boxcar was too high to go under the bin. Engineer Earl Perkins said he had been receiving signals relayed by Brakeman Soulsby from Brakeman Ray Rogers who was riding on the end of the boxcar which struck the bin. Ten cars separated the locomotive from the scale car, which was being pushed up over the sales on the end of the “cut” of cars so that it could be lowered down the track by hand to test the scales. The test car is pushed ahead of a string of cars long enough to back the test car over the scales without the locomotive running onto the scales, it was stated, and the cut of cars included a number of billed cars which had been picked upon on the other five track son which scales had previously been tested. The number six track, on the which the accident occurred, was the last scales to have been tested. Brakeman Rogers testified that he had not noticed that the car was too high to go under the bin and that he had been watching the tracks to see that the scale car was well over the scales before giving the stop signal. He said he had given a two-car signal, a one-car length signal, and then several stop signals before the car struck the tipple. As he heard the crash, Rogers said he attempted to run through under the bin to safety, but when timbers crashed in front of him he climbed under the car and waited there until the debris had stopped falling. The scale car had already been uncoupled, it was testified, and had rolled a few feet on ahead of the boxcar, although none of the men testified how far ahead it had rolled. Riley, riding the car, was to have stopped it above the scales, while the cut of cars was moved off the scales, before beginning the test. The scale testers were in the scale house next to the tracks at the time of the crash. Brakeman Jack Harris was at the lower end of the train, west of the locomotive, watching the switch track, he testified, and did not see the crash until after the bin collapsed. The workmen testified that it was an optional matter with the men testing the scales as to whom should ride the scale car in the test. Riley had been on the car on several other tests, it was stated. Dr. Paul Kos, who examined the remains after Riley’s body had been removed from the top of the scale car about 3 a.m. Tuesday, testified that Riley sustained a crushed chest, crushed pelvis, deep abdominal lacerations and other injuries. He said there was no evidence of violence beforehand or “foul play.” Funeral services will be held from the family home, 519 Q street, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The Eagles lodge will have charge of the graveside service. Born in Darworth, England, December 25, 1878, Riley came to the United States as a small boy and grew up in this country. He had a record of nearly 35 years railroad service, working with the Pennsylvania railroad before going to work for the Union Pacific 24 years ago. During the 25 years that he had been in Wyoming, Riley worked principally out of Rawlins as a conductor between Rawlins and Green River before being transferred to Rock Springs five years ago for a similar position on the Rock Springs-Winton spur line. Surviving in addition to his wife, Sara Riley, are one daughter, Mrs. Walter Clark of Rock Springs; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Arthur Pontin of Rock Springs and Mrs. Earl Hawkins of Washington, D.C.; three sisters, Mrs. John Dworsak, Tyron, Pa., Mrs. William Atack, Coralpolis, Pa., and Mrs. Harriet Atack, Cheyenne; two brothers, William Riley of Tyron, Pa., and James Riley, Centralia, Wash., and five grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 14, 1942 Nephew of Local Woman Dies In Marine Service Word has been received by Mrs. John Stafford of Rock Springs that her nephew, Robert Mitwalsky, 21, son of Earl M. Mitwalsky of Inglewood, Calif., has died in action, in the services of the U.S. Marines. Mrs. Stafford, who lives at 94 Second street, said the youth had made his home with his grandmother at Saratoga, Wyo., since he was 10 years old, prior to joining the Marines two years ago. The family has not been informed where the young man met his death, but it is presumed that he was with the Pacific forces. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 14, 1942 Former Springs Resident Dies Word was received in Rock Springs yesterday of the death of James Perucca, former Rock Springs resident, who died at his home in Gilroy, Calif., 8:30 p.m. Monday. Although he had not lived here for many years, Mr. Perucca visited Rock Springs about two years ago and will be remembered here by many old timers. Surviving are three daughters, all of California, and other relatives including a nephew, Pete Delaurante; three nieces, Lucy Delaurante, Mrs. Andrew Peternell Jr. and Mrs. James Grosso, all of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 14, 1942 FORSHAW GIRL DIES TUESDAY Diane Catherine Forshaw, 3½-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Forshaw, 609 Ridge avenue, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 5 a.m. yesterday after a short illness. The little girl had been taken to the hospital Monday evening for treatment and then removed to her home. At 10 p.m. Monday she was readmitted and passed away seven hours later. Funeral services will be held from the LDS church 2 p.m. Friday, Bishop Cecil James officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mr. and Mrs. Forshaw have no other children. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 15, 1942 Nipps Infant To Be Buried Friday Funeral services will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Friday for the 8-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Nipps of Dines, the Rev. F.E. Hathaway officiating. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. The infant died at the Wyoming General hospital early yesterday morning. Surviving in addition to the parents are one brother, James; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nipps of Missouri, and Mrs. Earl Huett. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Green River Star, Jan 16, 1942 George Cottle Succumbs Here On Saturday George S. Cottle, 48, life-time resident of Sweetwater county, died at his home here Saturday at 2:45 p. m. after an illness of three months. Mr. Cottle first become ill on the 11th of October, entering an Omaha hospital on the 25th of the same month. Mrs. Cottle accompanied her husband home on the 18th of December. Mr. Cottle was born in 1893 in Rock Springs and moved to Green River with his family at the age of 14. He married Pearl Wade of Green River on January 31st, 1916. Cottle was a machinist for the Union Pacific railroad for the past 32 years. He was a member of the school board and town council for one term. At the time of his death he was president of the Old Timers association and also secretary of the IOOF lodge. Services were conducted by Rev. Alfred Lee Jones at the Masonic Temple at 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon with burial in Riverview cemetery. Mr. Cottle is survived by his widow, Pearl; one son, George Cottle, Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Grant Twitchell of Green River and Mrs. John Hudak of Rock Springs; two brothers, Dave Cottle of Green River and Roger Cottle of Cheyenne; one sister, Mrs. Robert Maxam and his mother, Mrs. Mary Cottle, both of Green River. Pallbearers were Joe Desmond, James Davis, A. E. Elder, Bert Bonahan, George Kienlen and N. B. Butters. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. A. T. Sudman, James Chrisman, William Rogers, S. G. Thornhill, John Riddle and Sam Faes. Attending the funeral from out-of-town were: Mr. and Mrs. Roger Cottle and son of Cheyenne, Mrs. Lucy Lannon of Denver, Mrs. Reuben Blackner of Lyman, Mrs. Hector Stoll of Burris, David G. Jones, David E. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Jones, Harold Jones, Mrs. Essie Jones, Mrs. Bella Jones and son, Dwight, and James Travis, Jr., all of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 20, 1942 Ferguson Rites Pending; Inquest Slated Definite arrangements for the funeral of Elmo Ferguson, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Ferguson, 820 Walnut street, had not been made yesterday due to the serious condition of Mrs. Ferguson, who has been suffering from shock since the sudden death of her only son. Ferguson sustained fatal injuries when a cream separator at the Hurst Dairy company blew up about 4:30 p.m. Friday. He had been employed by the dairy for 10 years and was tending the machine at the time of the accident. A formal inquest will be held, said Coroner J. Warden Opie yesterday, as soon as George B. Nelson, also injured in the accident is able to testify. Nelson, a partner in the dairy, escaped death by a few seconds as he moved away from the machine to the other side of the room just before the crash. A fragment of metal struck his leg inflicting a deep gash. Ferguson was born in Weidman, Mich., April 28, 1913. He and his family came here in 1929. Only other surviving relative, in addition to his parents, is a sister, Mrs. Pauline Meyer of Green River. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 20, 1942 JOSEPH KALLIO DROPS DEAD NEAR SCHOOL On his way downtown to make a regular call at the clinic for treatment of a heart ailment, Joseph Kallio, 69, dropped dead on the sidewalk on G street at the corner of the high school tennis courts yesterday afternoon, apparently from heart failure. Kallio, who lived alone at the rear of 347 Gale street, had been a resident of the community for about 40 years, and was a masseur by trade. He was born in Finland. Mrs. Spiro Yurkovich, 730 O’Donnell street, saw the aged man collapse about 2:30 p.m. and summoned officers. Coroner J. Warden Opie was called and it was confirmed that the man died of natural causes. Funeral arrangements were not complete yesterday, pending the arrival of relatives. Kallio had four daughters and one son in Detroit. He had no relatives in Rock Springs. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 21, 1942 Former Resident Burns to Death In Truck Mishap James O’Dea, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Willis of Rock Springs, was burned to death in the wreckage of a truck he was driving near Provo, Utah, Monday, it was learned here yesterday. O’Dea, a former Reliance resident, had gone to Utah recently to accept employment there, and Mrs. O’Dea, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Willis, had joined him. Details of the accident were not immediately learned, but it was reported that his truck struck a concrete wall and overturned, pinning him beneath the truck which caught fire. Mr. and Mrs. Willis and Rex Willis Jr., left early yesterday morning for Salt Lake City. O’Dea formerly worked at Reliance before accepting a job as truck driver for a grocery store in Provo. He is survived by his wife and a two-months-old son, and his parents and sister who live in Nebraska. The body was to arrive today on train No. 14. No arrangements had been made for the funeral. Rogan mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 22, 1942 Max Horton Dies At Hospital Funeral services had not been arranged last night for Max Lee Horton, 14-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Horton of Green River. The infant died at the Wyoming General hospital at 8:20 a.m. yesterday. In addition to his parents the deceased is survived by two sisters, Beverly Ann and Cora Jean Horton of Green River, and two grandmothers, Mrs. Ida Peterson of San Francisco and Anna M. Horton of Sage City, Kan. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Green River Star, Jan 23, 1942 HORTON INFANT SUCCUMBS HERE AFTER ILLNESS Max Lee Horton, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Horton, died Wednesday morning at 8:20 at the Wyoming General hospital, following complications of chicken pox. The child was born November 11, 1940, and was 14 months, ten days old at time of death. He is survived by his mother and father, and two sisters, Beverly Ann and Cora Jean Horton, ages six and eight. Also surviving are two grandmothers, Ida Peterson, San Francisco, and Anna M. Horton, Green River. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday at the Congregational church, under the direction of Rev. Harry B. Gordon. The body is at the Rogan Mortuary, and final interment will be held at the Riverview cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bobby Dakin, Betty Hermansen, Neil Edmonson and George Layton. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 24, 1942 Kallio Funeral 1 P.M. Sunday Funeral services for Joseph Kallio, 69, who died of a heart attack Monday, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 1 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. The elderly man dropped dead on the sidewalk on G street Monday afternoon while en route downtown to the clinic to consult a doctor. He had lived alone on ale street. He had lived here 40 years and was a masseur by trade. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 27, 1942 Pioneer Boulder Resident Dies at Hospital Edgar Dobson, 76, pioneer resident of the Boulder area, died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday morning after being in the hospital about two weeks. He had been brought to the hospital from Pinedale where he had previously received treatment. The body was taken to Boulder yesterday. Rogan mortuary was in charge. Dobson has no known surviving relatives. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 29, 1942 BITTER CREEK MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL Jay C. Turney, 73, a resident of the Bitter Creek community for the past 22 years, died at the Wyoming General hospital 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. He had been proprietor of the Bitter Creek store for a number of years. His wife, Margaret Turney, will accompany the body to New London, Wis., today, where the funeral will be held. Turney was born there September 22, 1868. In addition to his wife the deceased is survived by one brother in Wisconsin. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jan 29, 1942 Services Held for Mrs. W. Malonek Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at the Boulder church for Mrs. William Malonek, who died Friday at Pinedale. Mrs. Malonek was severely injured September 17, at her ranch near Boulder, when she was attacked by a goat. Since that time she has been bedridden and has been cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Ted Lawrence at their home in Pinedale. Born Ann Priddy, October 7, 1869, in Ohio, she came to Wyoming in August 1906. She was married to William Malonek at Green River, June 6, 1919. The couple has lived for many years on a ranch, near Boulder on the East Fork river. Mrs. Malonek is survived by her husband and a sister in Kansas City, Mo. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Feb 1942 The community was shocked and saddened by the death of Herman William Maki, driller in No. 4 Mine, Hanna, on December 19th, a member of the Old Timers’ Association. Herman Maki was born in Vaasa, Finland, on July 7, 1892. He came to Hanna in 1917, and had worked there since. He was well known and respected by everyone. He leaves to mourn his passing his wife and one daughter. Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church at Hanna on December 21st, with Rev. R. Palmer officiating, and interment in the Hanna Cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 5, 1942 Sister Of Springs Woman Dies In Hospital In Hanna Mrs. Gus Fagerholm, 51, sister of Mrs. John Anselmi of Rock Springs and mother of the former Violet Fagerholm who taught dancing here, died at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in a Hanna hospital following a paralytic stroke suffered Monday night. Mrs. Fagerholm was well known in Hanna and had many friends in Rock Springs. Funeral services will be held in Hanna Friday. Three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Seay, Mrs. Bill McMillan and Mrs. Gene Corrigan, arrived in Hanna from Los Angeles a few hours before Mrs. Fagerholm passed away. A brother, Gus Malmberg, and Mr. and Mrs. John Anselmi were also with her at the time of her death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 3, 1942 O’Farrell Rites This Morning Funeral services for Margaret Jean O’Farrell, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. O’Farrell, 428 Pearl street, will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 9 a.m. today, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary service was held last night at 7 p.m. at the Rogan mortuary chapel. The young girl died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday after a short illness. Surviving in addition to her parents are a sister, Mary Catherine, six brothers, Ted, William, Jack, Bob, Daniel and Dennis, all of Rock Springs; and Mrs. Catherine O’Farrell, a grandmother, who lives in Illinois. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 3, 1942 Doak Services Will Be Today Funeral services for John David Doak, 65, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. today, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating, burial in Mountain View cemetery. The well known man died after a lingering illness which had kept him bedfast for some time. Surviving in addition to his wife Mae, 715 McTee street, are four sons, James, George, Lester and Jack Doak of Rock Springs; one daughter, Beverly of Rock Springs; and a brother, William Doak of Ottawa, Ill. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 5, 1942 Sister Of Springs Woman Dies In Hospital In Hanna Mrs. Gus Fagerholm, 51, sister of Mrs. John Anselmi of Rock Springs and mother of the former Violet Fagerholm who taught dancing here, died at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in a Hanna hospital following a paralytic stroke suffered Monday night. Mrs. Fagerholm was well known in Hanna and had many friends in Rock Springs. Funeral services will be held in Hanna Friday. Three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Seay, Mrs. Bill McMillan and Mrs. Gene Corrigan, arrived in Hanna from Los Angeles a few hours before Mrs. Fagerholm passed away. A brother, Gus Malmberg, and Mr. and Mrs. John Anselmi were also with her at the time of her death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 5, 1942 Mrs. F. Cukale Dies After Brief Illness Mrs. Frank Cukale, 28, the former Margaret Wilde, died at her home, 1201 Clark street, about 8 a.m. Wednesday following a brief illness. When Mrs. Cukale’s condition became critical the fire department respirator was summoned but death came before the machine could be used in an attempt to revive her. Born May 26, 1913, Mrs. Cukale had lived in this community most of her life. Surviving in addition to her husband are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wilde of Rock Springs; four sisters, Mrs. Joe Bider, Fly Creek, N.Y., Mrs. Laddie Daniels of Winton, Caroline and Norma Wilde of Rock Springs; three brothers, Matt, Thomas and Bob Wilde, all of Rock Springs. Funeral arrangements had not been made yesterday, pending the arrival of relatives from the east. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Cukale formerly worked for the Rock Springs Union Pacific Coal company store for ten years before her marriage a few months ago to Frank Cukale. Her husband is eligible for military service and was to have been inducted some time in the near future. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 5, 1942 ELDERLY MAN IS FOUND DEAD IN BED The body of Thomas Young, elderly Rock Springs man who lived alone at the rear of 88 Center street, was found in his cabin about 5:30 p.m. yesterday. The man had last been seen Sunday. He had apparently been dead for several days when found, according to Coroner J. Warden Opie who was called to investigate. The man apparently died from natural causes, Opie said, and no inquest will be held. He had last been seen by I.C. Eversol and C.W. Sherpard on Sunday. When neighbors failed to see the elderly man outside they called upon Rex Erlewine to investigate and Erlewine found the man in bed, dead. Young had not worked for several years and lived a quiet, retired life. He has several relatives in Rock Springs. No arrangements for funeral services had been made last night. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge. --- Salt Lake Telegram, Feb 6, 1942 Ada Jane A. Shaw Mrs. Ada Jane Ainsworth Shaw, 73, died Thursday at 11:05 a.m. at her home, 154 Second East street of chronic myocarditis. She was born September 4, 1868, at Hull, England, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane Precious Ainsworth, and came to the United States when she was six years old. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. William Sandstrom of Rock Springs, Wyo.; four sons, Thomas and Len Shaw of Salt Lake City, C.H. Shaw of Hailey, Idaho, and Bert Shaw of Green River, Wyo.; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at 124 Second East street, where friends may call Friday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until time of services. The body will be taken to Rock Springs for burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 INQUEST INTO FERGUSON DEATH TONIGHT An inquest into the death of Elmo Ferguson, 29, who was killed in an explosion at the Hurst Dairy company plant January 16, will be held in the office of Justice of the Peace E.E. Johnson at the city hall, 7 p.m. this evening. James A. McPhie, justice of the peace, acted as coroner in the absence of J. Warden Opie at the time of the accident. A coroner’s jury was summoned at the time to view the scene of the accident after a cream separator had blown up, inflicting fatal injuries on Ferguson and injuring George Nelson, partner in the dairy. Ferguson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Ferguson, 820 Walnut street, and had worked at the dairy for a number of years. The inquest had been delayed pending recovery of Nelson, who was in the room at the time the machine disintegrated and sprayed flying scraps of metal over the room. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Death of Hot Springs Man Still Mystery THERMOPOLIS, Feb. 5—Hot Springs county authorities were still no closer today to solving the mystery of the fatal burns suffered last November by Johnny Ginrich, 70-year-old sheepherder, despite the fact that a coroner’s jury after two days of investigation blamed persons or parties unknown. Ginrich died in the Thermopolis hospital on November 30 from serious burns which covered one-fourth to one-third of his body. He was burned on November 22 and was taken to the hospital four days later. The coroner’s jury, which met this week, heard widely conflicting testimony, but was unable to reach a decision as to how the aged man was burned. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Evanston Woman Dies After Daughter’s Birth EVANSTON, Feb. 5 (Special)—Mrs. Pierce Nelson, 26, died at an Evanston hospital early Wednesday morning following the birth of a daughter 22 hours before. The baby is reported to be doing well. Funeral arrangements are pending. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Grother and Norman Platts, sister of Mrs. Nelson, arrived Wednesday evening from Laramie. Mrs. Nelson was a daughter-in-law of Postmaster and Mrs. F.P. Nelson. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Mrs. H. Carlson Dies; Services Will Be Sunday Mrs. Hulda Carlson, 69, well known Rock Springs woman and resident of this community for nearly 48 years, died at the Wyoming General hospital 10:20 p.m. Wednesday after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Carlson, whose home was at 606 Euclid avenue, was born November 15, 1872, in Grytasa, Sweden. Her husband is Nels P. Carlson of Rock Springs. Other survivors include: three sons, Carl, Rudolph and Oscar Carlson, all of Rock Springs; four daughters, Mrs. Carl Anderson of Superior, Mrs. Clarence Lewis of Green River, Mrs. Gus Skordas of Rock Springs and Mrs. Parley Merrill of Salt Lake City; 20 grandchildren; one brother and two sisters in Sweden. Funeral services will be held from the Rogan Mortuary chapel 9 a.m. Sunday, the Rev. John Lutze officiating. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. Rogan Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 CUKALE RITES TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Cukale will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the family home, 1201 Clark street, the Rev. E.E. Acheson officiating. The body will be taken from the Rogan mortuary to the family home at 4 p.m. Friday and will lie in state until the funeral hour. Mrs. Cukale died at her home early Wednesday morning following a brief illness. She was 28 years old. Survivors include her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wilde of Rock Springs; four sisters, Mr. Joe Bider, Fly Creek, N.Y., Mrs. Laddie Daniels of Winton, Caroline and Norma Wilde of Rock Springs; and three brothers, Matt, Thomas and Bob Wilde of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Young Services To Be Saturday Funeral services for Thomas Young, 73, who was found dead in his cabin at the rear of 88 Center street about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, will be held from the Wildermuth chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. F.E. Hathaway officiating. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. Coming to Rock Springs in 1883 with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Young Sr., Thomas Young spent many years working on ranches and in various livestock interests. He had not worked for a number of years, however, due to his advanced age, and had been living alone. Survivors include two sisters in Rock Springs, Mrs. Albert Walters and Mrs. Jane Guy, another sister, Rachel Armbruster in Chanute, Kan.; two brothers, John Young of Santa Monica, Calif., and Robert Young of Corey, Mont. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Pinedale Man Dies In Evanston Of Heart Ailment EVANSTON, Feb. 5 (UP)—Lee Caldwell, 46, of Pinedale, truck driver for the Anderson Trucking company, died suddenly of a heart attack Thursday afternoon at the home of his stepson, Robert McBride, 801 Uinta street. Caldwell came to Evanston Wednesday to visit his wife. Among the survivors is another stepson, Jack McBride of Evanston. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Indian Buried Near Men He Tried to Save YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., Feb. 5 (UP)—Bad Man, century-old Crow Indian, who in 1876 helped the Army chase Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce warriors through Yellowstone park, lies buried in the same ground with the men he tried to save 75 years ago, the victims of the Fetterman Massacre. Park officials here said no one knew the real age of Bad Man, who died last week. He was 104 or 105 years old. He enlisted in the Indian Scouts in 1876, served beside U.S. troops in a dozen historic battles. Ten years before that he and others of the Crow tribe tried to save Colonel Fetterman from massacre at the hands of the Cheyennes. With General George Crook, Bad Man hunted the warriors of Red Cloud through the Bad Hills of the Dakotas. With Gen. O.O. Howard he fought in the battle of Big Hole Basin in 1876. Then he joined in the pursuit of Chief Joseph and was present at the surrender of the Nez Perce host at Bear Pay Mountain, Mont., on Oct. 5, 1877. In his declining years, Bad Man asked to buried atop the Wolf Mountains where he could come out and sit on the peaks at night and smoke his pipe. Only within the last year was he persuaded that on his death he should join his friends at Custer monument. Bad Man has been laid to rest there, a few feet from Curly, sole survivor of Custer’s last stand. Near him are his other friends; Goes Ahead, Thomas La Farge, Horse Rider and others. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 KEMMERER MAN SUCCUMBS TO HEART AILMENT KEMMERER, Feb. 5 (Special)—Dan I. Howells, 48, prominent Kemmerer businessman, died this morning of a heart ailment. He had been a resident of Kemmerer since 1914. He was born in Colorado Springs, Colo., and came here from there. He was a member of the American Legion and Legion services will be held in Colorado Springs, where burial will take place Monday. He is survived by his wife and two children, Marilyn and Denny Jr., Also surviving are three brothers, Edwin, Thomas and Leonard, and three sisters, Mrs. Lillian Bell, Mrs. Mabel Bennett and Mrs. Margaret Costa, all of Colorado Springs. The body will lay in state at the Howells home until it is sent to Colorado Springs for funeral services and burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 6, 1942 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tardoni and son Joe, Mrs. John Nigra and children, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kragovich and children, Mr. and Mrs. Attilio Guerri and daughter attended the funeral of Frank Tardoni’s cousin, John Moretti, who was killed in Kemmerer Thursday. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 7, 1942 JURY RETURNS VERDICT IN FATAL BLAST After listening to testimony last night by workmen who were in the Hurst dairy plant at the time Elmo J. Ferguson met his death, a coroner’s jury ruled that Ferguson met his death when “the shaft in the cream separator which Ferguson was operating broke, causing same to be thrown out of balance, disintegrating the upper part and bowl assembly of same, parts of which struck the body of Elmo Ferguson, causing his death.” The coroner’s jury was comprised of Earl Lawless, Frank Marocki and R.C. Erlewine. James A. McPhie, justice of the peace who acted as coroner at the time of the accident, assisted with the inquest which was conducted by Coroner J. Warden Opie. Ferguson died en route to the Wyoming General hospital on January 16 a few minutes after his body had been ripped open by flying metal fragments as the rapidly whirling separator went to piece after the shaft broke. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 11, 1942 Rites for Groark Infant Today Funeral services are planned for this afternoon for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin T. Groark of E Plane, who died at the Wyoming General hospital at 5:20 p.m. yesterday. The child was born at 3:45 a.m. February 10 and lived only a few hours. Survivors in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Unden and Mr. and Mrs. James Sawtell of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 12, 1942 H. BEVERIDGE SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL Henry Beveridge, 59, pioneer resident of Rock Springs, died at the Wyoming General hospital Tuesday night after a six weeks’ illness. Beveridge, who was called “Skinny” by his many friends, was employed here as a warehouse worker. He was born in Rock Springs February 1, 1883, and had spent most of his life in this community. A member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie 151, and an active member of the LDS church, Beveridge had a wide acquaintance in the community. His parents were Scottish, having come here from Edinburgh, Scotland. Surviving are his wife, Mable, 507 G street; six sons, Henry Beveridge Jr., of Los Angeles, Arthur, Jack, Robert, Wallace and George Beveridge of Rock Springs; three daughters, Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald, Mrs. George Berta and Gertrude Beveridge, all of Rock Springs; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Quigley and Mrs. Ellen Duncan, both of Salt Lake City; and one brother, David Beveridge, of Rock Springs. Funeral services will be held from the LDS church at 2 p.m. Friday, Bishop Cecil James officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 14, 1942 TOTH SERVICES TO BE SUNDAY John Toth, 48, employed by the Union Pacific Coal company as a miner, died Friday morning at the Wyoming General hospital after having been at the hospital since January 28. Toth had no known surviving relatives except a stepson, Mike Evans. He made his home at 909 Hill street. Funeral services will be held Sunday, 2 p.m., from the Congregational church, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 14, 1942 F.V. Dankowski, Dean of Nation’s Trailer Travelers, Dies on Coast Fred V. Dankowski, 77, brother of M.J. Dankowski and S. Dankowski of Green River, died quite suddenly in Los Angeles Thursday night at the home of his sister, Mrs. Viola M. Knight. Dankowski was familiar with every section of the United States, Canada and Mexico, having spent much of his life as a traveler, earning fame as a pioneer in the trailer house mode of living. In perfect health until three years ago when his wife was fatally injured in an automobile accident at Omaha, Neb., Dankowski had never quite recovered from the shock of this tragedy, according to his brothers, and after losing his constant companion on his many exciting journeys across the land, he lost interest in the avocation which had contributed much in preserving his normal virility and robust health. He succumbed Thursday night to a heart attack, Sheriff Dankowski was informed. The Green River Dankowski brothers and their families, including Mr. and Mrs. Art Elder and daughter, will leave this morning for Ogden, Utah, where the body will be brought for burial beside his wife. Mrs. Knight will accompany the body to Ogden to be present for the funeral. Larsen mortuary is in charge. Many of Mrs. Dankowski’s relatives live in Utah near Ogden. Since his wife’s death the amiable pioneer with the restless feet had always referred to Green River as “home,” where his brothers lived, and he had spent several months here last year. He was widely known throughout the community and had many friends in every section of the United States. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 17, 1942 Brechin Rites To Be Wednesday In Green River Funeral services for James A. (Scotty) Brechin, 83, who died at his home in Green River Sunday morning, will be held from the Congregational church in Green River at 2 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Harry B. Gordon officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. Brechin, who would have been 84 this month, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, February 25, 1859, and had been in the United States 65 years. He had been a resident of this community for the past 35 years and previous to his retirement had been employed as a construction foreman for the Union Pacific railroad. Surviving are his wife Jean of Green River, one daughter, Mrs. R.J. Thomas of Green River, one brother, Samuel Brechin of Toronto, Canada, and two sisters living in Scotland. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 17, 1942 HANKING RITES TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY Mrs. Edith Hanking, 59, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 3:20 p.m. Saturday. She was a resident of Superior and had lived in the community about 29 years. Mrs. Hanking was born January 7, 1882, in Skelton, England. Survivors include her husband, James, two sons, James and Edward, all of Superior and one brother in England. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday from the Congregational church, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 18, 1942 Archie Ord, 12, Dies Wednesday Archie Norman Ord, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ord, 1126 Elk street, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 7 a.m. yesterday after being in the hospital five days. Funeral services for the boy will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday, according to tentative arrangements, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Survivors in addition to the parents include grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ord of Rock Springs, and grandfather, James Muir of Seattle, Wash. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 18, 1942 Services Held for Mrs. Ada Shaw Funeral services were held recently in Rock Springs for Mrs. Ada Shaw, former Rock Springs resident. Mrs. Shaw died February 5 in Salt Lake City and burial was made in Rock Springs February 8. Services were held at the Rogan chapel. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. William Sandstrom of Rock Springs, and four sons, Bert Shaw of Green River, Lynn and Tom Shaw of Salt Lake City and Clarence Shaw of Hailey, Idaho. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 18, 1942 L. FISHER, 53, DIES TUESDAY Leonard Fisher, 53, Rock Springs resident for 30 years, died Tuesday morning at the Wyoming General hospital. Survivors include a son, Leonard Fisher Jr., of Rock Springs; three sisters, Mrs. Tony Zerla and Mrs. Ben Seggi of Dillonville, Ohio, and Mrs. Frank Burbin of Adena, Ohio; two half-brothers, Bob and Tom Ainscough of Dillonville; and a grandson, Leonard Dennis Fisher. He was born in Bedna, Ohio on February 8, 1889. Funeral services in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary, are pending word from relatives in Ohio. --- Green River Star, Feb 20, 1942 James A. Brechin, G. R. Pioneer, Died Sunday James A. Brechin, 88, a longtime resident of Green River, died in his home, Sunday morning, February 15, of heart attack. Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, April 25, 1869, he spent the last 35 years of his life in Green River as an employee of the Union Pacific railroad. He came to the United States when 19 years old, and immediately took out papers of naturalization. He married Jean French Brechin in Toronto, Canada, in 1909, and then the young couple came to Green River immediately after the wedding. Mr. Brechin was, until his retirement 12 years ago, construction foreman on the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific. He has been duly credited with the construction of most of the big bridges on the Union Pacific in the immediate section of Green River. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jean Brechin, and a daughter, Mrs. Reed J. Thomas, of Green River; a brother, Samuel Brechin in Toronto, Canada, and two sisters in Scotland. Funeral services were conducted in the Congregational church at 2 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Harry B. Gordon officiating. Burial was in the Riverview cemetery, directed by Rogan mortuary. Pallbearers for the funeral were David Covey, William Coutts, James Thomsen, John Simpson, John Riddle and Don Kellogg. Out of town attendants to the funeral were: Mrs. William Carlin, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Harry Page, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Harry Francis, Ogden, Utah; and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Covey, Coalville, Utah. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 21, 1942 Kemmerer Highlights Mrs. J.L. Cheese, the Rev. Mr. Pease and Mrs. Mosey, all of Evanston, were in Kemmerer Wednesday where they attended the funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Haddenham. Alice Jackson, a student at the University of Wyoming, arrived here this week to attend the funeral services of her grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Haddenham, on Wednesday. --- Mrs. A.L. Burgoo of Diamondville was notified this week of the death of her brother-in-law, Dr. T. Mitchell Burns of Denver, Colo., on Tuesday evening. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 21, 1942 Services Are Held For Bridger Valley Pioneer Resident EVANSTON, Feb. 20 (Special)--Ada Dotson Rollins, 83, resident of Bridger valley for the past 46 years, passed away Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.W. Slade, in Lyman. She was born at French Camp, Miss., January 1, 1859. Surviving are three sons, W. Clarence Rollins and Charles W. Rollins of Lyman and H.E. Rollins of Green River; two daughters, Mrs. W.T Hollingshead of San Leandro, Calif., and Mrs. J.W Slade of Lyman; 40 grandchildren, 62 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Marshall, Evanston, and Mrs. Mima Burns, Fresno, Calif. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Lyman ward chapel, under the direction of Bishop Clem G. Evre. Interment was made in the Lyman cemetery with the Bluemel and Durnford mortuary in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 24, 1942 Wick Services To Be Tuesday Funeral services for Charles Wick, 88, who was found dead at his home 353 H street, Saturday morning, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday from the Rogan chapel, Bishop Lyman Fearn of Green River officiating. The Finnish choir will sing. Burial will be made in Mountain View cemetery. The body was found by Ike Wick, son of the deceased, when he returned from work early Saturday morning. The elderly man had apparently been dead for several hours. Coroner J. Warden Opie, who investigated said no inquest would be held. Wick was born in Finland October 14, 1853, and had lived in this community for 40 years. He was a coal miner prior to his retirement. Survivors include his son, Ike, another son, John of Los Angeles, and two daughters, Mrs. Mark Kirschbaum and Mrs. Q. Wilcox of Rock Springs. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 25, 1942 S.E. STEWART DIES SUNDAY S. Edward Stewart, 64, who was engaged in the oil business in this vicinity, died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday after a three months illness. He is survived by his wife, Grace, whose home is at 524 B street. Born at Perryville, Pa., July 12, 1877, Stewart had followed the oil business most of his life as a driller and contractor. His profession had taken him to many distant places. He had done drilling work in upper Burma, India, and in eastern, southern and western fields in the United States in addition to the work he had done in this area. Funeral arrangements are pending, with Wildermuth mortuary in charge. The body will be taken to Pennsylvania for burial. --- Green River Star, Feb 27, 1942 MRS. L. N. SAWYER DIES OF STROKE IN FLORIDA Mrs. L. N. Sawyer, 72, died February 19, at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from complications due to a stroke suffered December 9th. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Sawyer were pioneer residents of Green River and Kanda before going to Florida to live. They would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April of this year. Mrs. Sawyer was born in Pennsylvania in 1870, and she will be buried in the cemetery at Meadville, Pa. She is survived by her husband and two sisters, one living in Meadville, Pa., and one in Cleveland, Ohio. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 28, 1942 Fermon Services Will Be Sunday Funeral services for Benjamin F. Fermon, 65, colored, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the AME church, the Reverend Mr. Glascow of Ogden, Utah, officiating. Burial will be made in Mountain View cemetery. The well known colored man died at his home, 717 Booker avenue, early Thursday morning. Fermon was employed by the Union Pacific Coal company and had been working regularly up to the time of his death. Survivors, in addition to his wife, Jessie, include four sons, George, Harold, Benjamin A. and Calvin, all of Rock Springs; six daughters, Mrs. Jessie Battles, Frances Fermon of Berkeley, Calif., Gladys Fermon of Washington, D.C., Sarah, Bonnie and Naoma Fermon, all of Rock Springs; one brother, William Fermon of St. Joseph, Mo.; three sisters, Mrs. Berna Armstrong of St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. McGill of Battle Creek, Mich., and Mrs. Louisa Walker of St. Paul, Minn. Four grandchildren also survive. Fermon was born in Weston, Mo., February 4, 1877, and had lived in Rock Springs 22 years. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Feb 28, 1942 FORMER DINES RESIDENT DIES Word has been received by friends in Dines of the death of Jack Koivisto who died February 17 after an illness of two years. He had been confined in the hospital at Ironwood, Mich., for almost 20 months before his death. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son. They are former residents of Dines, having lived there about three years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 3, 1942 Bagley Services To Be Saturday Funeral services for Joseph Van Bagley, 72, will be held from the Granger school house at 11 a.m. Saturday. Bishop Albert Reinsch of Green River officiating. Bagley, a well known resident of the Granger community, died at the Wyoming General hospital 10 a.m. Monday. He was born October, 1869. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 4, 1942 J.V. Bagley Was State Resident Over 40 Years Joseph V. Bagley, 73, who died in Granger Monday after a long illness, had been a resident of Wyoming for 40 years, and was well known in southwestern Wyoming and Utah, and was reared there, attending Brigham Young university at Provo and later moved to Wyoming. Survivors besides his widow, Cora Bagley of Granger include two sons, Harold E. of Granger and Joseph L. Bagley of Green River; three daughters, Mrs. Elmer Butler of Salt Lake City, Mrs. H.M. Jackson of Laramie, and Eleanor Bagley of Granger; stepmother, Mrs. Hanna Daybell of Heber City, Utah; a brother, David Bagley of Salt Lake City; four sisters, Mrs. Anne Edwards of Provo, Mrs. Allie Anderson of Heber City, Mrs. Jennie Parker of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Hilda Loader of Salt Lake City; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the Granger school house at 11 a.m. Saturday. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 5, 1942 PIONEER GREEN RIVER RESIDENT DIES William Chrisman, 88, a pioneer resident of Green River, died at his home at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday. He was a well known resident of the community, having come to Green River in 1868. Chrisman was one of the oldest Masons in Green River. Survivors include his wife, Tena Chrisman and two sons, James Chrisman of Green River and Chet F. Chrisman of Evanston. Chrisman was born in Muscatine, Iowa, and was a retired newspaperman and storekeeper. Funeral arrangements are pending. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 6, 1942 CHRISMAN RITES TO BE TUESDAY IN GREEN RIVER Funeral services for William Chrisman, 88, pioneer Green River resident who died at his home in Green River Wednesday afternoon, will be held from the Masonic temple in Green River at 2 p.m. Sunday, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. The body will be taken from the Wildermuth mortuary in Rock Springs to the Masonic temple in Green River at 9 a.m. Sunday and will lie in state until time for the service. Chrisman was one of the oldest Masons in Green River and was a prominent citizen of the community for many years, living in Green River since 1869. --- Green River Star, Mar 6, 1942 Early Pioneer Dies in G. R. Wednesday William Chrisman, 88, pioneer resident of Green River, died Wednesday, March 4, at 3 p.m., of I complications due to old age. He was a well known resident of the community, having come with his parents to Green River in 1868, where his father worked on the early U. P. railroad. Crisman was the oldest Mason in Sweetwater county. Survivors include his wife, Albertena, and two sons James Chrisman of Green River, who is the vice president of the Green River First National Bank, and Chet F. Chrisman, of Evanston. His sister, Mrs. L. E. Vickery of Ogden will attend the funeral services. Also surviving him are seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Two of his grandsons are in the services of the U. S. army. Chrisman was born in Muscatine, Iowa, and was a retired storekeeper newspaperman. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary, and the funeral services will take place at the Masonic Temple at two o'clock Sunday afternoon. Attending the funeral will be Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson of Ogden, Utah. --- Green River Star, Mar 6, 1942 Mrs. H. Turner Dies In Evanston, Tuesday, March 3 Mrs. Harriet Turner, 89, died Tuesday morning, of natural causes, at her home in Evanston. Survivors are her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Agnes Turner of Green River. Two grandchildren also survive, Mrs. W. A. Painter, Green River, and Glenn Turner, also of Green River. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, it was learned. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 7, 1942 Tony Pivac, 52, Fatally Injured In Mine Accident Tony Pivac, 52, an employee of the Union Pacific Coal company, was fatally injured about 2:53 p.m. Friday in an accident near the 21st entry of the Rock Springs No. 8 mine. Pivac was struck by an empty car while helping the motorman, mine officials said. It was not immediately ascertained how the man came to be struck by the car, but it was believed he attempted to cross over to the other side of the track while assisting in picking up tools, County Coroner J. Warden Opie said after a preliminary investigation. Taken to the Wyoming General hospital after being brought up out of the mine Pivac died a few minutes after admission. Death came about two hours after the accident occurred. Pivac, whose home was as 2345 Tenth street, had been a resident of the community for 32 years. Survivors include his wife, Mary Pivac, of Rock Springs, two stepdaughters, Mrs. Mary Welsh and Mrs. Frances Andrich of Rock Springs, and his parents in Yugoslavia. Pivac was born in Yugoslavia October 23, 1889. Coroner Opie said that an investigation will be conducted Saturday and indicated that an inquest may be held. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday from the family home. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 Mrs. J. Yugovich Dies Monday; Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Yugovich, 39, who died at the Wyoming General hospital 4 a.m. Monday, will be held from the North Side Catholic church at 9 a.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. Rosary services will be held at the Rogan chapel 7 p.m. Tuesday by the Knights of Columbus, and 7:45 o’clock by St. Ann’s Altar society and the Sacred Heart society. Mrs. Yugovich, wife of William Yugovich of Blairtown, had been in the hospital only one day prior to her death. Survivors in addition to her husband are a son, Edward, of Blairtown, two brothers, John Erzen of Yugoslavia and Ben Erzen of Rock Springs. Mrs. Yugovich was born in Yugoslavia and had been a resident of the community 21 years. She was a member of the St. Ann’s Altar society and the K.S.K.J. lodge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 Brother of Springs Man Is Killed In Accident In Colorado Mr. and Mrs. Alec C. Davidson, who lived at 1005 Pilot Butte avenue, left Saturday for Trinidad, Colo., where they were called by the death of Mr. Davidson’s brother, John Davidson. They received a telegram Saturday morning stating that John Davison had been killed in an accident, but no details were given. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 Services Held For Henriksen Infant Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Catholic church in Green River for Nina Louise Henriksen, 2½-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Henriksen of Green River. The Rev. H. Schellinger officiated. The infant died in Green River 11 a.m. March 7. Surviving in addition to the parents are the following brothers and sisters, Shirley, Beverley, Robert, John, Carl, Mary, Joe, Rose Alice, Pat and Billy. Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Nicholson of Frontier, and Mrs. Ed Wall of Lyman are grandparents. Rogan mortuary was in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 JURY RETURNS VERDICT IN PIVAC DEATH A coroner’s jury, called to hear testimony in an inquest into the death of Tony Pivac, 52, coal miner who died Friday after injuries received in an accident in the No. 8 mine, found that the deceased has been “very careless” immediately before the accident, and declared that “this accident could have been avoided.” “It is the opinion of the jury that Anton Pivac, placing a rope on an empty trip of eight cars, signaled the motorman to pull. He hit his head on a crossbar, knocking him down under the first car, dragging him about 25 feet,” the verdict read. “It is the belief of the jurors that this was very careless and this accident could have been avoided.” Jurors in the case were Martin Sturman Sr., Mike Begovich and Philip Mihanovich. Coroner J. Warden Opie conducted the inquest. Pivac died about two hours after the accident Friday afternoon after being taken to the Wyoming General hospital. He suffered extensive head and leg injuries. Funeral services were held from the family home, 1245 Tenth street, Sunday afternoon. Burial was in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Pivac had been a resident of the community for 32 years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 Fearn Rites to Be Wednesday; Other Crash Victims Reported Recovering Five persons were recovering Monday from injuries sustained Friday in an accident 13 miles east of Evanston in which Mrs. Lyman Fearn of Green River was fatally injured. Two victims of the accident were brought to Rock Springs Sunday for treatment at the Wyoming General hospital, one woman remained in the Jacoby hospital at Evanston, and two were released. Lyman Fearn, former state coal mine inspector, received less serious injuries than the other passengers in the car he was driving when the machine collided headon with a car driven by Fred Scott of Potlatch, Idaho, on the icy highway. Della June Fearn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fearn, and their son-in-law, Gordon Edwards, were “somewhat improved” at the Wyoming General hospital Monday, both having regained consciousness. Edwards was said to have suffered a brain concussion and possible internal injuries, and Miss Fearn sustained severe facial lacerations and other injuries. Mrs. Fred Scott, passenger in the westbound car, was being treated at Evanston for a fractured jaw and wrist and a leg injury. Her husband was less seriously injured. Funeral services for Mrs. Fearn will be held in Green River at the Social hall, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Bishop Albert Reinsch officiating, and the body will be taken back to Evanston for burial in the family plot at the city cemetery there. Bryan mortuary of Evanston is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Fearn’s body will lie in state at the Fearn home from 11 a.m. Wednesday until time for the services. A coroner’s jury, at an inquest held in Evanston Sunday, found that Mrs. Agnes Gibbs Fearn died as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile collision Friday afternoon on U.S. highway 30, 13 miles east of Evanston. The accident was said to have been unavoidable as the road was icy and the driver of the westbound car lost control of his machine. Jurors included Stanley Ballinger, Scott Taggart and Robert Zemp. Survivors of the deceased include her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Gordon Edwards and Mrs. Charles Pratt Jr., of Rock Springs, and Della June of Green River; two brothers, William and Richard Gibbs of Salt Lake City; and six sisters, Mrs. H.J. Harrington of Rock Springs, Mrs. Charles B. Morgan and Mrs. J.W. Gnam of Cheyenne, Mrs. A.A. Lorenz of Chicago, Mrs. Andrew Faddis of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Feree Marks of San Diego, Calif. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 10, 1942 Soldier Killed In Fire To Be Buried Here Pvt. Vernon H. Killian, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Killian, 822 Center street, was killed early Saturday morning in a fire which swept an army barracks at Corvallis, Ore., where the soldier was stationed, according to information received here by his parents. The body will be returned to Rock Springs for burial and word was being awaited Monday as to when the remains would arrive here. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Wildermuth mortuary will be in charge of arrangements. Killian, who was inducted under selective service last springs, was attached to Company F of the 115th Cavalry. He had been engaged in office work with the company. Before his induction he had been employed by the Union Pacific railroad in Rock Springs and later in Evanston as a freight office foreman. He was a graduate of Rock Springs High school. Cause of the fire which took the lives of three other former Wyoming national guardsmen, was not immediately determined. The building had been converted as an emergency barracks to house soldiers temporarily. According to press reports the fire broke out about 6 a.m. and was engulfed in flames before the fire department arrived. Other who perished in the flames ere Sgt. Harry H. Boles, Douglas, Sgt. Elmore J. Howell, Newcastle, Corp. John W. Williams, Douglas, Wallace A. Wright of Kemmerer was seriously burned and six others received minor burns. Killian is survived by his parents, two brothers, Dale, 9, and Dan Killian Jr., who came to Rock Springs Monday from Foster Field, Victoria, Tex., to attend funeral services for his brother. Dan Killian Jr. volunteered for selective service several months ago and is now employed as an assistant in the flight surgeon’s office at the advanced aviation training station at Foster Field. Surviving aunts and uncles include Mr. and Mrs. William Snyder of Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Highley and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chevalier, all of Rock Springs and Tom Highley of Superior. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 13, 1942 Rites For Soldier Who Died Saving Companion In Fire Will Be Today Funeral services for Pvt. Vernon Killian, 24, who died while trying to save an injured companion in a fire which swept an army barracks at Corvallis, ore., March 7, will be held from the IOOF hall at 2 p.m. Friday, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Graveside services will be in charge of Archie Hay post No. 24, American Legion. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge. Yellowstone Post 2316, Veterans of Foreign Wars, formed a guard at the Union Pacific depot Wednesday night when the body arrived, and accompanied the remains to the mortuary, maintaining a guard of honor there until the body was removed. Glowing praise of Private Killian’s heroic service was contained in a letter received by Mrs. Dan Killian, mother of the deceased, written by her son’s commanding officers. Declaring that Killian “made the supreme sacrifice so that others might live,” the officer commended him as a “fine comrade and soldier.” Mr. and Mrs. Killian had two sons in service, Vernon Killian who was fatally burned in the Corvallis fire, and Dan Killian Jr., who has been stationed at Foster Field, Texas. Another survivor is a younger brother, Dale. The letter to Mrs. Killian read as follows: Dear Mrs. Killian: There seems to little that I can say or do that can ease your sorrow and grievance for your son who has given his life for his country. Vernon served under my command for many months and I am very proud of having had an acquaintance with him, that, over and above our military association, was a fine personal friendship and understanding. Vernon acted as my personal aide for several months and during that time we made many trips together around this part of the country. His passing, of course, has come as a great shock, but we must think of Vernon as he lived, a fine, healthy, upright youth, devoted to his family, God and country. His was the supreme sacrifice, made so that others might live and have a better world to live in. Vernon was overcome by smoke and heat while assisting an injured companion to safety. We can’t share the sorrow in your heart for Vernon, but I want you to know that his comrades and I miss him greatly and deeply grieve for the passing of a fine comrade and soldier. You must bear this tragedy bravely and you can be proud that you gave such a fine son to his God and country. We, his comrades and officers will carry his memory as we try to follow the example he set in giving his life in this great struggle, that has engulfed the entire world and must be settled in bloodshed and loss of life, that America, its democracy and freedom of living, may survive. Everything possible is being done and if at any time I can be of any assistance please call on me, that I may have the honor of serving you. Respectfully yours, HARRY W. POST First Lieutenant, 115 Cav. (HM) Corvallis, Ore. --- Green River Star, Mar 13, 1942 Chrisman Rites Held Sunday At Masonic Hall Funeral services for William Chrisman, 88, pioneer resident of Green River, and the oldest member of the Masonic order in Sweetwater county, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the Masonic Temple in Green River. R. H. McIntosh, worshipful master, of the Blue Lodge, Mount Moriah, A. F. & A. M., No. 6, conducted the Masonic funeral services both at the Temple and at the grave. The Rev. A. L. Jones, of the Episcopal church of the Holy Communion, gave the opening prayer and address at the Temple service. The body was taken from the Wildermuth funeral home, Rock Springs, to the Temple at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Chrisman died at his home in Green River Wednesday afternoon, March 4, at 3 p.m., of complications due to old age. He was a retired newspaperman, having worked on the one-time Rocky Mountain Daily News with Judge Holden. Later he was a storekeeper dealing in drugs, medicine, stationery, toys and tobaccos. Born in Mucscatine, Iowa, he came to Green River in 1868 and since that time has made his home here. He was a brother of the late James Chrisman of Opal. Chrisman is survived by his wife, Albertena, two sons, one of which is James Chrisman, well known Green River businessman, and vice president of the First National Bank, Green River, and another son, Chet F. Chrisman of Evanston. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. L. E. Vickery of Ogden, Utah, who attended the funeral services. Chrisman leaves two grandsons in the U. S. army, Bud Chrisman, son of James Chrisman, in the 115 Cavalry, Salem, Ore., and Joe Chrisman, son of Chet Chrisman, Camp Polk, Louisiana. A granddaughter, daughter of James Chrisman, Mrs. Harold Johnson of Ogden, attended the funeral with her husband, Harold Johnson. Pallbearers for the funeral were William Hutton, Edward Taliaferro M. J. Dankowski, B. W. Taliaferro, T. E. Rogers, A. E. Elder, all of Green River. The honorary pallbearers included: Dr. J. H. Gilligan, George Bullock, S. Dankowski, E. A. Gaensslen, Charles Young, Chris Waechter, William Rogers, Jack Grundell. Out-of-town people attending the Chrisman funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. Lottie Vickery, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. James Chrisman, Opal, Wyo.; Vego Chrisman, Opal, Wyo.; Mr. and Mrs. Pete Petrie, Opal, Wyo.; Miss Harriet Chrisman, Opal, Wyo.; W. A. Johnson, Rawlins, Wyo. --- Green River Star, Mar 13, 1942 Final Rites For Agnes Gibbs Fearn Are Held Here Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Gibbs Fearn, 48, were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 p. m., at the Social hall, Bishop Albert Reinsch of the L.D.S. church officiated. The body was returned to Evanston for burial in the family plot at the city cemetery there. Bryan mortuary, of Evanston, was in charge of the funeral arrangements. Mrs. Fearn died in an Evanston hospital Saturday at 6:35 a. m. of shock caused by head and internal injuries suffered in a head-on auto collision Friday, March 6, 13 miles east of-Evanston on U. S. highway No. 30. It is known that five persons were recovering this week from injuries sustained in the head-on collision that caused the death of Mrs. Fearn. Lyman Fearn, former state coal mine inspector and now town councilman and bishop of the L.D.S. church, and Sinclair Oil company dealer, received less injuries than the other persons in the car that Gordon Edwards, son-in-law of the Fearns', was driving, Fearn is suffering from a broken wrist. Della June Fearn, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fearn, and their son-in-law, Gordon Edwards, 27, were "somewhat improved" at the Wyoming General hospital Monday, both having regained consciousness. Edwards was said to have suffered a brain concussion and possible internal injuries, and Miss Fearn sustained severe facial lacerations, the whole loss of one eye, and other injuries. Mrs. Fred Scott, passenger in the westbound car, was being treated for a fractured jaw and wrist and a leg injury. Her husband was less seriously injured. Mrs. Fearn was born in Almy, Wyo., on February 19, 1894, a daughter of William and Isabel Beveridge Gibbs, and had been a lifelong resident of western Wyoming. After her birth her family moved to Spring Valley, and remained there until Mrs. Fearn was 10, they then moved on to Cumberland, Wyo., where Mrs. Fearn completed her schooling. It was in Cumberland that Mrs. Fearn met her husband, Lyman, and they were married December 24, 1912. They later went through the L. D. S. Temple in Salt Lake City in 1913. The Fearn's resided in Cumberland in 1917 at which time they moved to Superior, and remained there a short while. Fearn was then transferred to Reliance and back to Cumberland in 1919, and in 1927 Fearn was appointed state inspector of coal mines. At that time they moved to Rock Springs. In the year 1935 the Fearn's moved to Green River, and have their home, and family here at the present time. Mrs. Fearn was active in L.D.S. church and civic affairs for all the time spent in Green River. She served in all the auxiliaries of the church, and up to the time of her sudden death she was second councilor in the Relief Society of Green River. Surviving in addition to her daughter, are her husband; two adopted daughters, Mrs. Gordon Edwards of Green River and Mrs. Katherine Pratt of Rock Springs; six sisters, Mrs. A. Loranze of Chicago, Mrs. A. L. Faddis of Salt Lake City, Mrs. H. G. Harrington of Rock Springs, Mrs. F. S. Marks of Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs. C. B. Morgan and Mrs. J. W. Gnam of Cheyenne, Wyo., and two brothers, William Gibbs of Salt Lake City and Richard Gibbs of Bountiful, Utah; and three grandchildren, Gary Lyman Edwards, Green River; Mauri Pratt, Rock Springs; and Peggy Pratt of Rock Springs. Pallbearers for the funeral were composed of the members of the High Council of Twelve, L.D.S. church, and include: J. Leslie Rollins, Lyman; Robert Fletcher, Rock Springs; Clinton Bradshaw, Lyman; J. Marlow Taylor, Green River; James Johnson, Rock Springs; William Sharp, Mountain View. Honorary pallbearers who were also members of the High Council include: Thomas Jones, Rock Springs; Thomas J. Brough, Lyman; Ambrose Davidson, Lyman; Henry Vauss, Lyman; Mont Paughlan, McKinnon. A host of friends, and relatives from out-of-town attended the funeral. The floral decorations were lavish, and the large crowd of Green River townspeople that paid final tribute to the tragic death of Mrs. Fearn was enough to fill the Social hall to much-more than capacity. --- Green River Star, Mar 13, 1942 Hendrickson Infant Succumbs Of Heart Ailment Saturday Nina Louise, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hendrickson of Green River, died suddenly at the family home in Green River Saturday morning, of a heart ailment. Besides her parents, she is survived by 10 brothers and sisters, Shirley, Beverly, Robert, John, Carl, Mary, Joe, Rosealice, Pat and Billy, all of Green River; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Nichols of Lincoln county and Mrs. Ed Wall of Lyman. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 17, 1942 Colored Woman Dies Monday In Local Hospital Jessie B. Mason, 23, colored, died at 8:15 a.m. Monday at the Wyoming General hospital. She had been admitted Sunday night for a major operation. The body will be shipped to Denver Tuesday night for funeral services there where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Jennings, reside. Accompanying the body will be Mrs. Marillo Brown, sister of the deceased, whose home is in Denver. Mrs. Mason was born December 14, 1919, in Denver. She had been a resident of Rock Springs for the past six months. She became ill at the county jail in Green River Sunday and was brought by ambulance to the hospital. She was serving a three months’ jail sentence for assault. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 17, 1942 Casteneda Rites To Be Wednesday Funeral services for Felip Casteneda, about 65, who died at the Wyoming General hospital 6:30 a.m. Monday, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Casteneda, who has no known relatives, lived at 562 South Front street. He had been in this community for about 25 years and had been employed as a sheepherder. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 24, 1942 Groutage Rites Held On Monday Funeral services for Charles M. Groutage, 46, Oak Creek, Colo., resident and brother of W.H. Groutage of Winton, were held from the Rogan mortuary chapel at 10 a.m. Monday, Bishop Cecil James of the L.D.S. church officiating. Burial was in Mountain View cemetery. Groutage, who was born in Almy, Wyo., died at Oak Creek Wednesday night and the body was brought here later. He had been employed as a blacksmith. In addition to his wife and four daughters and one son, all of Oak Creek, the deceased has four brothers, W.H. Groutage of Winton, Harry and Jack Groutage of Kemmerer and Joseph W. of Logan, Utah. Three sisters also survive, including Mrs. H.A. Schrader of Chicago, Mrs. Frank Lynch of Delco, Idaho and Mrs. Albert Johnson of Susie, Wyo. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 26, 1942 L. GRIFFITHS SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL Lewis Griffiths, 55, Rock Springs man who had spent his entire life in this community, died about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Wyoming General hospital after an illness of several days. He had undergone a major operation previously and failed to rally from the effects, it was reported. Born in Rock Springs August 24, 1886, Griffiths attended the Rock Springs schools and after the completion of his schooling was employed by the Union Pacific Coal company and Southern Wyoming Utilities. He had been in the company’s employ for nearly 35 years at the time of his death, and was a member of the U.P. Coal company Old Timers association. He was also affiliated with the Masonic lodge. Griffiths had never married, making his home with several brothers at their residence in Harding court. Survivors include four brothers, William, Morgan, Evan and Emlyn, and one sister, Mrs. W.G. Carr, all of Rock Springs, Mrs. Car’s two daughters and a daughter of Evans Griffiths. Funeral arrangements have not been set definitely, pending the arrival in Rock Springs of Mrs. Carr’s daughters, one of whom is in Washington, D.C., and the other in California. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 28, 1942 Hiawatha Woman Dies At Hospital Mrs. Jeanne Worley of Hiawatha died at the Wyoming General hospital about 3 o’clock Friday afternoon. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Masonic Temple. The Rev. F.E. Hathaway and the officers of the OES will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Worley is survived by her husband, Elijah Worley; a 14 month-old son; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Mann of Superior and a sister, Mrs. Raymond McNiff of Rawlins. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 31, 1942 Rites Are Held For Dearden Baby EVANSTON, March 30 (Special)—Graveside services were held at the Riverview cemetery in Green River Saturday afternoon for the infant daughter of Earle Floyd and June Claire Petre Dearden, who died at the Jacoby hospital in Evanston five hours after birth. Surviving are the parents, both paternal and maternal grandparents of Green River; two aunts, Mrs. Melvin Maher and Joan Petre; and an uncle, Douglas Dearden, all of Green River. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 31, 1942 Mother Of Springs Woman Succumbs Word was received in Rock Springs Monday by E. Wayne Keith that Mrs. Keith’s mother, Mrs. R.A. Crump, died at 11 a.m. Monday at her home in Payette, Idaho. After an illness of several months Mrs. Crump became worse late last week and Mrs. Keith left Saturday to be with her mother in Payette. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Mar 31, 1942 Superior Man Is First 1942 Traffic Fatality In County KILLED WHEN CAR FAILS TO MAKE TURN Sweetwater county counted its first traffic fatality of 1942 Monday. Harry Boam, 28, of Superior was killed almost instantly, and James Smith of Rock Springs was seriously injured early Sunday morning when the car in which they were riding failed to make the turn at the north city limits and overturned into the ditch. Smith was reported in fair condition at the Wyoming General hospital Monday, receiving treatment for severe cuts and bruises and other injuries. Coroner J. Warden Opie said there would be no inquest. E.E. Johnson, justice of the peace, acted as coroner in the absence of Opie at the time of the accident. According to highway patrolmen who investigated the accident occurred about 6:50 a.m. Sunday as the two men were returning from Reliance in a borrowed car. Boam was driving, it was reported. The car left the road on the outside of the curve coming into Rock Springs, a few hundred yards south of the highway department buildings. Boam had been a resident of the Superior community for about eight years, working as a miner. The family formerly lived in Hanna. The body will be shipped to Hanna Tuesday evening from the Rogan mortuary and funeral services will be held there Wednesday. Survivors include his mother, Gertrude Boam of Superior; three sisters, Harriet Kelly of Hanna, Marie Robinson of Superior, Amie While of California; four brothers, Walter of Superior and John Moses and Arthur Boam, all of Hanna. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Apr 1942 Obituary, Benjamin F. Fermon Old Timer Benjamin Franklin Fermon died at his home at 717 Booker Street, Rock Springs, on February 26th, following an illness of ten days. He was born in Andrews, Virginia, February 4, 1877, and had been in the employ of this company since June, 1919, his last work being as Pit Car Loaderman in No. 8 Mine. Mr. Fermon has been active for many years in the affairs of the African Methodist-Episcopal Church in Rock Springs, and at the time of his death was a Trustee of that institution. He is survived by his wife, Jessie; four sons, George, Harold, Benjamin A., and Calvin, all of Rock Springs; and six daughters, Mrs. Jessie Datles and Frances Fermon, of Berkeley, California, Gladys Fermon, of Washington, D. C., Sarah, Bonnie, and Neiomi, of Rock Springs; as well as one brother, three sisters and four grandchildren. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery, following services at the A. M. E. Church at which Rev. W. L. Glasgow, of Ogden, Utah, officiated. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Apr 1942 Obituary, Tony Pivac Old Timer Tony Pivac died at the Wyoming General Hospital on March 6th, of injuries received in a mine accident. Mr. Pivac had lived in Rock Springs 32 years, having been employed by The Union Pacific Coal Company since July, 1911. He was born October 23, 1889, in Jugoslavia, where his parents still live. He was employed as Loader Head Man at the time of his death. Funeral services were held Sunday, March 8th, at the family home at 1245 Tenth Street, with burial in St. Joseph's cemetery. Mr. Pivac is survived by his widow, Mary, and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Mary Welsh and Mrs. Frances Andrich, of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 3, 1942 B.H. GENETTI DIES AT FT. LEAVENWORTH Word was received in Rock Springs Thursday of the sudden death of Bruno H. Genetti, 29, former Rock Springs Junior High school teacher and athletic coach, who left Sunday for induction into the U.S. army. Genetti died about 5:42 a.m. Friday at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., of a heart attack. Genetti, son of Peter Genetti of Superior, had been mathematics instructor and coach at the junior high for the last three years. He was graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1935 and had taken graduate work at New York university. He taught at Eden for four years before joining the Rock Springs teaching staff. Widely known in the community and the personal friend of every youngster in the school, Genetti’s death came as a shock to all who knew him. He left Rock Springs Sunday evening on the train, leading a group of more than 35 Sweetwater county men who were inducted with him at Ft. Leavenworth. The body will probably be shipped from Ft. Leavenworth to Rock Springs Friday, and a soldier will accompany the remains here. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Survivors in addition to his father and stepmother are a half-brother, Paul, both of Superior; aunt and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Genetti of Rock Springs; and two cousins, Mrs. Ole Anselmi and Mrs. Clyde Colleti of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 3, 1942 SERVICES FOR F. O’DONNELL SET SATURDAY Funeral services for Fred O’Donnell, former Rock Springs resident who died Monday at Duncan, Okla., will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the South Side Catholic church, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. The body arrived in Rock Springs Wednesday night. Accompanying the body here were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baker with whom the deceased had been living, and Fred O’Donnell Jr., his son who went to Oklahoma this weekend when advised of his father’s illness. The body will be taken to the O’Donnell home, 208 D street, Friday morning and rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Friday. O’Donnell left Rock Springs 11 years ago for Oklahoma after having lived her for more than 40 years. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H. O’Donnell, born in Rock Springs April 29, 1886. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. A.A. Dona of Laramie, and Mrs. James Knox Jr. of Rock Springs; one son, Fred; five sisters, Mrs. A.J. Wipperman, Moscow, Idaho, Mrs. C. Juel of Ft. Collins, Colo., Mrs. L. Enderud, Portland, Ore., Mrs. S.E. Kellogg of Rock Springs and Mrs. Harry A. Baker of Duncan, Okla. Mrs. J.W. O’Donnell, a sister-in-law, is here from Cheyenne for the funeral services. --- Green River Star, Apr 3, 1942 Dearden Infant Succumbs Friday Graveside services for the infant daughter of Earle and June Clair Petre Dearden of Wasatch, Utah, were conducted in the Riverside [sic] cemetery in Green River, Saturday, noon, by the Rev. H. Schellinger. Burial was under the direction of the Durnford mortuary of Evanston. The infant was born early last Friday morning and lived only a few hours to succumb in the Jacoby hospital in Evanston. Surviving beside the parents, are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Petre and Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Dearden of Green River. Funeral services originated from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Maher. --- Green River Star, Apr 3, 1942 Former Mayor of Vernal Succumbs At Age of Eighty John Kimball Bullock, 80, former mayor of Vernal, Utah, and brother of George A. Bullock of Green River, died Monday at 6 p.m. at his home of a heart ailment. Bullock was a prominent business man and civic leader in Ashley Valley for more than 60 years. He was vice president of the Uintah State bank and the Vernal Milling and Light company. He was born in Provo, Utah, June 9, 1861, a son of Kimball and Martha Bullock and came to Ashley Valley in 1879. For several years he ranched near Jensen and in 1895 moved to Vernal entering the mercantile business. He was the oldest living member of the Storey Lodge, A. F. & M. of Provo, and was a member of Vernal Lodge, I.O.O.F. Funeral services were held in Vernal Thursday afternoon. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 7, 1942 Genetti Rites To Be Held This Morning Military honor will be accorded Bruno H. Genetti, 29, former Rock Springs teacher and coach, at funeral services to be held from the South Side Catholic church at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Genetti died suddenly at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., early Thursday morning, only four days after having left Rock Springs for induction in the U.S. army. All army and navy men who are in Rock Springs on furloughs are asked to be at the Rogan mortuary at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to take part in the military funeral. The Rev. S.A. Welsh will officiate and burial will be in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary will be said at the Rogan chapel at 7 p.m. Monday and at 7:30 p.m. by the Knights of Columbus. Sgt. R.C. Hoppe of Ft. Leavenworth accompanied the body to Rock Springs, arriving here Saturday evening. He reported that Genetti collapsed suddenly while being instructed in bed making at the fort, and died shortly afterward of a heart attack. Pallbearers will be Victor Abram, Elmer Halseth, Waino Korhonen, Victor Magagna, Leno Menghini and Paul Ryan. Honorary pallbearers include: S.M. Boucher, Charles R. Blazek, Kenneth Carmichael, Doyle Medus, Charles Parker, Gus Pandalis, Ben Sheldon, Leonard Stensaas, E.M. Thompson, Lloyd Hess, Lloyd Ling, Joseph Facinelli, Carl Schwarz, Vaughn Brinegar, Leslie Davis, James Ryan and Fabius Harrison. Survivors include his father, Pete Genetti of Superior, his stepmother, a brother, Leno, and a half-brother, Paul, all of Superior; an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Genetti of Rock Springs and two cousins, Mrs. Ole Anselmi and Mrs. Clyde Coletti, both of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 8, 1942 George Maxam Dies Tuesday In Green River George Maxam, 82, a resident of Green River for 45 years, died at his home in Green River Tuesday afternoon. One of the oldest Masons in Green River, Maxam was a member of Mt. Moriah chapter No. 5 and Askalon Commandery No. 5. In addition to his wife, Mary, the deceased is survived by two sons, Robert and Harry, a daughter, Georgia Elliot, and five grandchildren, all of Green River. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Funeral details have not yet been completed. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 8, 1942 Dierden Rites Are Pending Funeral services were pending Tuesday for William Louis Dierden, 62, of Superior, who died at his home about 9 p.m. Monday night. Dierden, who would have been 63 this month, had been a resident of the community for 32 years and had been a coal miner and later justice of the peace at Superior. Dierden was born April 16, 1879, at Murphysboro, Ill. Survivors include his wife, Jenatte B. Dierden of Superior; one brother, George of Louisville, Colo., three sisters, Mrs. John Palmer and Mrs. Hanna VanGallow of Rigby, Idaho, and Mrs. R.H. Fisher of Oakland, Calif. Rogan Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 9, 1942 Maxam Services To Be Thursday Funeral services for George Maxam, 82, of Green River, who died at his home Tuesday afternoon, will be held from the Congregational church in Green River at 2 p.m. Thursday, the Rev. Harry B. Gordon officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. The body will be taken to the church at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and will lie in state until time for the service. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Maxam, an old timer of the Green River area, had been a resident of the community for 45 years. He was an active Mason. Survivors include his wife Mary, two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren, all of Green River. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 10, 1942 Former Green River Youth Lost In Sinking Of Langley GREEN RIVER, April 9 (Special)—Elmer Richie, former Green River resident serving with the United States navy, has been reported lost in action, according to word received by his aunt, Mrs. Jesse Hill. Richie was stationed aboard the aircraft tender Langley which was sunk late in February. He attended high school in Green River for two years, and enlisted in the navy in 1940. He is survived by his wife and two-year-old daughter, who live in Pueblo, Colo. --- Green River Star, Apr 10, 1942 Funeral Services Are Held For George Maxam, G. R. Pioneer Funeral services for George H. Naxam, 82, pioneer resident of Green River, were held Thursday afternoon at the Union Congregational church, the Rev. Harry B. Gordon presiding. Maxam died at his home Tuesday afternoon due to complications caused by old age. He was one of the oldest Masons in Green River and a member of the Mount Moriah Chapter No. 6 of Green River and was past master of that order in 1906. Graveside ceremonies were conducted by the Blue Lodge of the Masonic Order, Green River, of Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 6. The Knight Templars, consisting of J. H. Jacobucci, Soren G. Jensen, William Mortimer, William Hutton, Jr., William Rogers and A. E. Schmidt, conducted an escort of honor to the graveside. Maxam was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1869 [sic]. He first came to Green River some fifty years ago, with his wife Mrs. Mary R. Maxam, in the days of the ox-cart. The couple first came to Wyoming in 1891. Maxam spent all of his active life in Green River with the exception of a period from 1917 to 1925 when he resided in Laramie. He was superintendent of the light company here and electrician for the Union Pacific railroad company until the time of his retirement. Fifteen years ago Maxam built the Green River Cottage Camp, and operated that business for eleven years. Maxam was also a past patron of Mystic Chapter No. 8, Order of Eastern Star and a member of the Knight Templars organization. His body was placed in the Riverview cemetery under the direction of Wildermuth mortuary. Pallbearers for the funeral service were: Karl Moedl, C. E. Jensen, Lyman Fearn, Allen Kemp, James Thomsen, J. A. Chrisman. Honorary pallbearers included: E. E. Peters, C. L. Young, M. J. Dankowski, S. S. Dankowski, E. A. Gaensslen, S. G. Thornhill, Dr. R. C. Stratton and George Bullock. Surviving him besides his wife, Mrs. Mary R. Maxam, are three children, all residents of Green River, five grandchildren, and two nephews. The children are Robert Maxam, Harry Maxam and Mrs. E. A. Elliott. Grandchildren include: Richard Maxam, 24, serving in the U. S. navy, son of Robert Maxam, Mary Ellen Maxam, teacher in Powell, daughter of Robert Maxam, and other son, Daniel. A daughter, Phyllis Ann, of Harry Maxam and Bruce, son of Mrs. E. A. Elliott. The nephews are Bert Maxam, Denver, Colo., and John Dunkle at Aspen Tunnel. Dunkle came from Aspen to attend the funeral, --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 11, 1942 John Jelaco Jr. Dies On Friday John Jelaco Jr., resident of Winton, died at the Wyoming General hospital Friday afternoon, suffering from complications which developed after he had undergone a major surgical operation. The body was taken to the Rogan mortuary and funeral arrangements are pending. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 14, 1942 JELACO RITES TO BE TUESDAY Funeral services for John Jelaco, 31, of Winton, will be held from the South Side Catholic church 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary was said at 7 p.m. Monday at the Rogan chapel. Jelaco died at the Wyoming General hospital April 10 after an illness following a major operation. He was in the hospital six days. He had been a resident of this community all his life and was well known. Survivors include his wife, Olga; one daughter, Rhodda; father, John Jelaco Sr. of Rock Springs, mother, Mrs. Nick Kragovich of Winton; five brothers, Nick, Barkley, Texas, Mike, Rock Springs, Joseph, U.S. navy, Tony, Ogden; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Jane Yelovich of Rock Springs, Mrs. Frances Poulich of New Mexico, Mrs. Ann Bozner of Rock Springs, and Katherine Jelaco of Winton. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 14, 1942 Green River Man Dies Of Auto-Truck Crash Hurts County Counts Second 1942 Highway Death Coroner J. Warden Opie said Monday that an investigation would be continued into the death of Charles R. Watkins, Green River construction worker, who died at the Wyoming General hospital about 10 a.m. Sunday from injuries received early Sunday morning in an auto-truck collision west of the Palisades, a few miles west of Green River. Watkins’ death was the second traffic fatality in Sweetwater county this year. Wendell Buckmeir, said to have been the driver of the car involved in the accident, was reported to be in satisfactory condition at the Wyoming General hospital. He sustained serious injuries in the accident. Buckmeir was from Green River also. The light car apparently swerved from the highway and struck the right hand side of a heavy Interstate Motor Lines truck which was parked about six feet off the oil, headed west, officers said. The Green River car was going east. Both injured men were in the front seat of the light passenger car, it was reported. Watkins’ home was reported to be in Oklahoma and the Wildermuth mortuary was awaiting instructions from relatives concerning funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 14, 1942 Ross Services To Be Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Ross, 78, long time resident of Rock Springs who died Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lott Buxton, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from the Wildermuth chapel, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Ross had been a resident of the community for 60 years, coming here at an early age from Pawnee, Neb., where she was born June 7, 1863. Survivors include one son, Claude Ross of Rosenburg, Ore.; four daughters, Mrs. Lott Buxton of Rock Springs, Mrs. Ralph Featherstone and Mrs. Don Ross of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Frank Forshaw of Casper; a brother, William Adams of Prosser, Neb.; a sister, Louisa Apel of Vernon, Texas; ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 17, 1942 Morris Weiss Dies Suddenly; Rites in SLC Funeral services for Morris Weiss, 57, were held in Salt Lake City Thursday afternoon. Weiss died at the Wyoming General hospital at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Wildermuth mortuary was in charge. Survivors include his wife, Alta, three sons, Samuel, David and Harry, and a daughter, Mrs. Louis Tenebaum, all of Rock Springs. Weiss, whose home was at 814 Connecticut, was engaged in business at the Rock Springs Hide and Fur company. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 17, 1942 SUPERIOR MINER DIES IN ACCIDENT Gus Wesen, 59, of Superior, was killed almost instantly Wednesday night when he was struck by a fall of rock in the Superior “C” mine while engaged in pulling timbers. Wesen was caught beneath the falling rock and was crushed to death about 9 p.m. Wednesday. Wesen’s death was the first fatality in the Superior “C” mine since October 20, 1933. The mine was cited last year for its safety record and received a certificate award from the Joseph A. Holmes Safety association in connection with the awards made to several properties of the company. The accident was the second fatality of the year in the company’s mine, the other one being the fatal injury of Tony Pivic in the Rock Springs No. 8 mine early in March. Justice of the Peace James A. McPhie acted as coroner in the absence of J. Warden Opie, who was attending a mortician’s conference in Denver. Mrs. Emma Wesen, wife of the deceased, is the only survivor living at Superior. Other relatives were not immediately listed. Funeral arrangements are pending at Rogan mortuary. It was not known Thursday whether or not an inquest would be held. Wesen had been an employee of the company for nearly 20 years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 17, 1942 Father of Local Woman Expires Mrs. Leo L. Wildermuth of Rock Springs received word Thursday that her elderly father, Oliver McGowan, died at his home in Jackson Center, Ohio, about 2 p.m. Thursday. McGowan, who was 74 years of age, suffered a stroke on Easter Sunday and had been seriously ill since that time. Mrs. Wildermuth will be unable to go to Ohio for funeral services due to illness of her daughter, Wilma. Five brothers and sisters of Mrs. Wildermuth in Ohio were with their father when he died. Another sister in Utah is expected to go to Ohio for the funeral. McGowan, who was well acquainted in Rock Springs, having spent one summer here and visited here several times, had been retired since the death of his wife, seven years ago. --- Green River Star, Apr 17, 1942 Crash Inquest Plans Pending Man’s Recovery No definite plans have been made for an inquest into the death of Charles R. Watkins, 19, of Green River, who died as the result of injuries sustained in an auto-truck collision early Sunday morning, pending recovery of the driver of the car in which Watkins was riding, County Coroner J. W. Opie said this week. Watkins died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday about 10 a. m., eight hours after the car in which he was a passenger, veered from the highway three miles west of Green River and crashed into a parked Interstate Motor Lines truck. Wendell Buckmeir, 22, also of Green River, driver of the passenger car, was reported in fair condition. According to officers who investigated, the crash occurred when Buckmeir passed a car driven by Jack Butters of Green River, headed east, and lost control of his machine, swerving off the highway and crashing into the front end of the westbound truck which was parked off the edge of the oil. Watkins had been working in Green River but his home was in Morris, Okla. Wildermuth mortuary is awaiting instructions from relatives concerning funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 18, 1942 Last Rites For Morris Weiss Held Thursday Funeral services for Morris Weiss, 57, well known Rock Springs businessman who died suddenly at the Wyoming General hospital about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, were held at 11 a.m. Thursday in Salt Lake City, the Rabbi Oscher Goldman conducting the service. Burial was in the Montefiore cemetery family plot. Weiss was a member of the Montefiore congregation. Pallbearers were Sam Perlman, Provo, Sam Guess, Salt Lake City, Sol Pomerance, Salt Lake City, E. Berman, Minneapolis, Minn., Dr. N.H. Oremland and Harry Hoffmand of Rock Springs. Weiss was a member of the B’Nai B’Rith lodge, national fraternal order, for many years. He had been a resident of this community since 1915, coming to the United States from Russia in 1913. He was born in Russia in 1884. A member of the Chamber of Commerce, Weiss was the owner of the Rock Springs Hide and Fur company here. Survivors include his wife, Alta; three sons, Harry, David and Sam, all of Rock Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Esther Tenenbaum of Rock Springs, daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sam Weiss, son-in-law, L. Tenenbaum, and three grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 18, 1942 Watkins Services To Be Saturday Graveside services for Charles R. Watkins, 19, who died Sunday at the Wyoming General hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident three miles west of Green River early Sunday morning, will be held at Mountain View cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday, the Rev. F.E. Hathaway officiating. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge. Watkins had been employed at Green River but his home was in Oklahoma. No relatives will be here for the service. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 18, 1942 Final Rites For Ellen Lafferty Will Be Monday Funeral services for Ellen Lafferty, 58, who died at her home, 625 Euclid, about 9 a.m. Friday, will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 10 a.m. Monday, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Miss Lafferty died after a lingering illness. With her at the time of her death were several brothers and sisters who reside here. She was born December 7, 1883 in Rock Springs and had spent most of her life here, being the daughter of pioneer residents of this community. Survivors include three sisters, Margaret Lafferty, Mrs. Pat Lepenske and Mrs. Harry Riley, all of Rock Springs; two brothers, Thomas Lafferty of Washington, D.C., and John Lafferty of Rock Springs; three nieces, Mary Pontin, Josephine Hawkins and Mrs. Art Manorgan; a nephew, Thomas Lafferty Jr.; two grandnephews and one grandniece. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 21, 1942 Bullock Rites To Be Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. George Bullock, 70, of Green River who died at her home Saturday afternoon, will be held from the Social hall in Green River 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bishop A.C. Reinsch officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. Mary Jane Bullock was born August 5, 1871, at Provo, Utah, and had been a resident of Sweetwater and Uinta counties for 55 years. She had lived in Green River 24 years. In addition to her husband the deceased is survived by a son, Kimball Bullock, a daughter, Mrs. D.S. Keister of Green River; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Hindmaish and Mrs. Ernest Harding, both of Provo; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The body will be taken to the home of Mrs. Keister in Green River at 9 a.m. Wednesday and friends may call between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., at which time the body will be taken to the social hall. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 21, 1942 Stout Services To Be at Farson Melva Carol Stout, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stout of Farson, died at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at Farson from the community hall 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. A.L. Jones of Rock Springs officiating. Burial will be in the Farson cemetery. Melva Stout was born July 3, 1928, at Hollinger, Neb. In addition to her parents, she is survived by a brother, Gerald, two sisters, Pansy Lee and Lillian Carleen; her grandfathers and one grandmother. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 23, 1942 Mrs. Thomas Cottle Dies Wedneday At Green River Home Mrs. Thomas Cottle, 77, a resident of Green River for the past 35 years, died at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday at her home in Green River. Funeral arrangements are pending. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge. Mary Jane Cottle was born in Wales, England, August 8, 1864. Survivors include two sons, David Cottle of Green River and Roger Cottle of Cheyenne; a daughter, Mrs. Rose Maxam of Green River; two brothers, David Jones of Rock Springs and Roger Jones of Wales, England; 21 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 24, 1942 Cottle Services To Be Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Cottle, 77, pioneer resident of Green River who died at her home Tuesday evening, will be held from the Masonic Temple in Green River at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Wildermuth chapel in Rock Springs Friday afternoon and evening and friends may call at that time. At 9 a.m. Saturday the body will be removed to the Masonic Temple in Green River. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 24, 1942 Rites For Thomas Infant On Friday Funeral services will be held from the Rogan chapel at 10 a.m. Friday for Richard Bruce Thomas, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Thomas of Winton. The child died at the Wyoming General hospital at 7:20 a.m. Thursday. Bishop Cecil James will officiate and burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery. Surviving are the parents; a brother, Claude Ray, a sister, Louise; grandmother, Mrs. Thomas of Idaho, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Moroni Almond, Downey, Idaho. The child was born April 21 at the Wyoming General hospital. --- Green River Star, Apr 24, 1942 Bullock Rites At Social Hall Wednesday 22 Funeral services for Mrs. George Bullock, 70, of Green River who died at her home last Saturday afternoon, were held at Social hall, 2 p.m., Wednesday afternoon. Bishop A. C. Reinsch, bishop of the L. D. S, Ward, John Taylor and Mr. Elsworth officiated. The opening prayer was given by Hal Anderson and closing prayer by Henry Hinner, McKinnon. Pallbearers included: Grant Butters, George Widdop, Sam Murphis, Allan Bahan, Ben Norris and Eldred Toone. Burial was performed at the Riverview cemetery under the direction of the Rogan mortuary. Mary Jane Bullock was born August 5, 1871, at Provo, Utah, and had been a resident of Sweetwater county for 55 years, many of which were spent in the Burntfork area of the Henry's Fork valley. She had lived in Green River for 24 years. In addition to her husband, the deceased is survived by a son, Kimball Bullock, Hot Springs, S.D., a daughter, Mrs. D. S. Keister of Green River; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Hindmaish and Mrs. Ernest Harding both of Provo, Utah; and a niece, Mrs. Lynn B. Pierce of Provo, Utah. Grandchildren surviving are: Mrs. Rex Brady, Green River; Mrs. Bruce Hosack, Cheyenne; Mrs. Lynn Decker, San Diego, Calif.; George Robert Keister, Rock Springs. Great-grandchildren surviving include: Carlyn and Errol Brady, son and daughter of Mrs. Rex Brady. Out-of-town guests included: Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hosack, Cheyenne, and Mrs. A. A. Bullock, Wasatch, Utah. It was further stated that such a great number of friends of the deceased Mrs. Bullock attended the funeral that an approximate count could not be made at this time. --- Green River Star, Apr 24, 1942 Final Rites For Mrs. Mary Cottle To Be Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Cottle, 77, who died Tuesday evening of complications due to old age, will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock p. m. from the Masonic Temple, Rev. A. L. Jones of St. John's Episcopal church officiating. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. The body will lay in state from 9 a. m. until funeral time at the Masonic Temple. Mrs. Cottle was born in Wales, England, August 8, 1864. She first came to Wyoming April 25th, 55 years ago, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Jones. She has been a resident of Green River for the past 35 years, and was married to Thomas Cottle here January 1, 1907. She was a charter member of Mount Lily Chapter No. 10, Order of the Eastern Star, and was a Past Matron of that order. Mrs. Cottle was also a Past Noble Grand of Harmony Rebekah, No. 3. She is survived by two sons, David Cottle, Green River, and Roger Cottle, Cheyenne. A daughter, Mrs. Robert Maxam, Green River; two brothers, David Jones, Rock Springs and Roger Jones Wales, England. Also surviving are twenty grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Pallbearers for the funeral will include: Claude Elias and Albert Walters, Rock Springs; John Riddle, James Chrisman, William Hutton, Jr., and John A. Lenhart. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 28, 1942 DEATH CLAIMS MRS. H. CROFTS ON SATURDAY Death claimed another prominent Rock Springs pioneer Saturday night when Mrs. Herbert Crofts, 90, died at the Wyoming General hospital after an illness of several days. Mrs. Crofts, who remained spry and vitally interested in all that went on in the world until a short time before her death, would have been 91 in October. Coming here as a miner’s wife in 1881 from England, Mrs. Crofts found life “hard and tough” but she found also a great deal of enjoyment in the pioneer existence and she and her family of four children made the most of the comforts afforded by a three-room frame shack at Blairtown. There were only 40 white families in Rock Springs at the time. During the 60 years she spent in the community Mrs. Crofts was an outstanding leader of civic and social affairs and was widely known in this section of Wyoming. On her 89th birthday she held open house at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Florence Smith, and spent the day busily entertaining. She was vitally interested in world affairs and was saddened by the war which ravaged her native England. Although she could not read extensively she listened to the radio regularly and kept well versed in the events of the town and the world. Survivors include three daughters and a number of grandchildren and more than 20 great-grandchildren. Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Funeral arrangements are pending. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 28, 1942 SPRINGS DOCTOR KILLS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN, TAKES OWN LIFE GIVES LETHAL DOES OF NARCOTICS TO FAMILY; SAID ILL HEALTH CAUSE A Rock Springs physician, his wife and two small daughters were dead Monday in what officers termed a triple-homicide and suicide. The victims were Dr. John F. Ryan, about 34, his wife Ruth and their two children, Virginia, 5, and Mary Jane, 3. Dr. Ryan, who had been practicing in this community as a member of the Medical group for the past six months, died at the Wyoming General hospital shortly after 5 a.m. Monday, more than 36 hours after he had given his wife and two small children fatal injections of morphine and barbital. Although Ryan gave ill health as the reason for his acts friends and doctor associates could find no reason for the triple murder which preceded the suicide. Friends said he had been devoted to his wife and children. The tragedy was discovered about 9 p.m. Sunday by Dr. K.E. Krueger and Dr. E.S. Lauzer who went to the Ryan home at 208 M street after Mrs. Ryan’s parents, summoned here from Cambridge, Neb., by Dr. Ryan in a long distance telephone call Saturday afternoon, were unable to get any response to their knocks. Police arrived shortly and Coroner J. Warden Opie began an investigation. Dr. Ryan was half reclining on the bed beside the body of his wife, a tourniquet around his upper left arm and a syringe half filled with a morphine injection held in his right hand. He was taken immediately to the hospital and lived until early Monday morning. The bodies of the children, Virginia and Mary Jane, were lying side by side on their bed in a bedroom across the hall from the parent’s bedroom, a large doll laying beside each. Marks on their arms showed that a needle had been used to inject the poison, said Coroner Opie. Opie pronounced the tragedy homicide and suicide and said no inquest would be held. One of four notes left tacked to the inside of the front door of the living room was addressed to Opie and read: “Dear Opie: Morphine and intravenous barbital are cause of our deaths. Do an autopsy on me and the wife if necessary. Please don’t on the kids. Please bury us here if chief beneficiary so decides. (Mrs. T.T. Ryan, Boulder, Colo.) Thanks.” Mrs. T.T. Ryan is his mother. Below this Ryan had written the times at which his wife and the two children died. He listed the deaths as follows: “Mrs. Ryan died at 4 p.m., Virginia 4:30 p.m., (baby) Mary Jane 12 M. Myself 8:30 a.m.” Opie said Ryan apparently figured he would be dead by 8 a.m. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mousel of Cambridge, Neb., parents of Mrs. Ryan, received a long distance telephone call from Ryan Saturday afternoon stating that Mrs. Ryan and the children were “seriously ill” and asking them to “come at once.” They left at about 6 p.m. Saturday and arrived here Sunday afternoon on the train. Efforts to reach the Ryan residence by phone from North Platte and Cheyenne were futile and when they reached Rock Springs no one answered the door at the Ryan home. A neighbor said the Ryans had been gone for sometime so the parents went to Superior where Dr. Ryan had spent considerable time in his practice. Finding no trace of him there the Mousels returned to Rock Springs and sought the assistance of Ryan’s doctor associates. An investigation led to the discovery of the tragedy. A neighbor of the Ryans was called by the telephone operator early Sunday morning and asked to go next door and hang up the receiver of the Ryan telephone which had apparently been removed and not replaced, Opie said. The youth, whose name was not learned, reported that he went into the bedroom and replaced the phone in the cradle, and though he saw the doctor and his wife lying there he did not believe anything was seriously wrong, it was reported. Stains on the living room sofa indicated that Ryan had injected the first shots into his wife while she lay there. The drug had apparently caused a violent physical reaction which brought blood from Mrs. Ryan’s mouth, staining her clothes and the sofa, an investigation revealed. Ryan then apparently removed his wife’s stained dress and put another dress on her, then carried her to the bed in the bedroom. It was not ascertained whether he injected the drug into his wife before giving the children the drug, but from the time of the deaths it appeared that he may have given his wife the first shot. Chloroform had also been used on one of the children, evidence of the anesthesia being burns on the child’s face, Opie said. Coroner Opie was checking a possibility that the children may have been given bottled soda pop in which poison had been dissolved after they were given the morphine shots. It was said unofficially that Ryan had been giving his family tick fever shots at home prior to the tragedy, and it was thought possible that the doctor may have led his wife and children to believe that he was injecting more of the serum when he administered the injections. Ryan was a graduate of the Denver university medical school and had been practicing in Ely, Nev., before coming here last November to join the Rock Springs Medical Group. He had been employed here as a relief doctor at the camps, working chiefly in Superior and other neighboring towns around Rock Springs. He was born at Cleburn, Texas, in 1908. Luella Ruth Ryan, 33, was born at Cambridge, Neb., in 1909. She is survived by her parents and two sisters and other relatives. Funeral arrangements had not been completed Monday. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 29, 1942 HOMICIDE-SUICIDE VICTIMS TO BE BURIED IN NEBRASKA The bodies of Dr. John F. Ryan, his wife and two daughters will be shipped to Cambridge, Neb., for burial, it was announced by relatives Tuesday. All were victims of a triple homicide and suicide tragedy in which Dr. Ryan took his own life after administering fatal does of narcotics to the three members of his family Saturday evening at their home, 228 M street. The bodies were not discovered until Sunday evening. In a note left for Coroner J. Warden Opie, the doctored requested that burial be made here, “if the chief beneficiary so decides.” The chief beneficiary was Mrs. T.T. Ryan, the doctor’s mother, who lives in Boulder, Colo. Arrangements were made by Mrs. Ryan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Mousel of Cambridge, to have the remains taken there for burial in the Mousel family plot. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements and plans are to ship the bodies Wednesday. Ryan is survived by his mother and two brothers, Thomas and Winfred. He was born February 22, 1908 at Cleburn, Texas, and was a graduate of the University of Denver medical college. He had been practicing here as a member of the Rock Springs Medical group for the past six months. Mrs. Ryan was born in September, 1908 at Cambridge, and is survived by her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Madeline Coder, Wellfleet, Neb., and Mrs. Lucile Haas of California; four brothers, Paul Mousel of Denver, Charles Mousel of Wellfleet and George and Arthur Mousel of Cambridge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Apr 29, 1942 CROFTS RITES HELD TUESDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Crofts, 90-year-old pioneer resident of Rock Springs, were held from the Congregational church 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial was in Mountain View cemetery. Wildermuth mortuary was in charge. Mrs. Crofts died at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday night after an illness of several days. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, May 1942 March Injuries TONY PIVAC, Dalmatian, age 52, married, loading-end man and nipper, Section No. 2, Rock Springs No.8 Mine. FATAL. This accident occurred on a slope parting. The parting served as a landing for trips brought up from below by the 20 Entry hoist as well as for the entry. Trips from the slope hoist and entry consisted of eight cars. The motorman and Pivac brought out eight loads and found eight loads and eight empties on the parting. A short rope was put from the end of the motor's loads to the first car of the empties and the empties were pulled up and blocked and the rope taken off the loads, which were then pushed back against those standing on the parting. Tony went to the high side of the empties and the motorman attached the rope to the motor and started pulling in the empties. He had gone about twenty-five feet when he looked around and noticed that Tony was immediately in front of the empty trip, apparently trying to get over the rope and had fallen down. The motorman stopped the motor immediately but the front end of the car had already run up on Tony. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, May 1942 Lewis Griffiths Born in Rock Springs on August 24, 1886, Lewis Griffiths spent his entire life in the town where he was born. He was the son of Morgan and Elizabeth Griffiths. After leaving the Rock Springs grade school, he started to work for The Union Pacific Coal Company in the material room at Rock Springs No. 1 Mine, subsequently being transferred to the service department of the Green River Water Works Company, now the Southern Wyoming Utilities Company. He was a valued employe, and was greatly liked by the patrons of the company for which he worked, on account of his quiet, friendly demeanor. He was taken seriously ill on March 19th while at work, and was rushed to the Wyoming General Hospital, where a surgical operation failed to bring relief, and he passed away there on March 25th. Lewis was unmarried, making his home with his brothers, William and Morgan. He was prominent in Masonic circles, was a Past Master of Rock Springs Lodge No. 12, A. F. and A. M., and was a Past High Priest of Lawrence Chapter No. 11, Royal Arch Masons. He was also a member of The Union Pacific Coal Company's Old Timers' Association. His funeral, which was a Masonic one, was held from the Lodge Room of the Rock Springs Masonic Temple, and interment was in Mountain View Cemetery. Our sympathy is extended to his relatives, which include his brother, Evan, of the Auditing Department, also William, Morgan, and Emlyn, and a sister, Mrs. William Carr, of Rock Springs. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, May 1942 Winton The community was shocked to learn of the death of John Jelaco, Jr., following an operation for appendicitis. Heartfelt sympathy is extended the bereaved family. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, May 1942 Reliance Mrs. Jane Robertson returned from California, where she attended funeral services for her sister, Mrs. Carver. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 1, 1942 RYAN FAMILY RITES HELD Funeral services for Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Ryan and their two daughters were held at 8:30 a.m. Thursday from the South Side Catholic church, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. After the funeral the bodies were taken by train to Cambridge, Neb., where graveside services will be held and burial made in the Mousel family plot. Relatives of both Dr. Ryan and Mrs. Ryan were here for the funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 5, 1942 SERVICE HELD FOR PLANE CRASH VICTIM Funeral services were held at the North Side Catholic church at 10 a.m. Monday for Joseph Kershisnik, 38, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kershisnik Sr., 425 M street, who was killed Friday night in a United Air Lines plane crash near Salt Lake City. The Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiated. The body was taken to Cheyenne Monday night for burial there. Kershisnik, who had been living in Cheyenne for about eight years, had been employed in California by the Japanese resettlement authority to set up financial records for the agency, and was en route to Cheyenne when the airliner crashed within sight of the Salt Lake airport, carry 14 passengers and three crew members to their deaths. Born in Rock Springs, Kershisnik attended the Rock Springs schools and Ogden high school and was later employed here by the North Side State bank. After working for a time in Cheyenne in the state examiner’s office Kershisnik was appointed director of finance for the Wyoming Works Project Administration. He had been loaned by the WPA to the Japanese resettlement administration in California a few weeks ago. His accounting system was adopted for all the camps and he was appointed director of finances for the entire system a few days before his death. He was en route to Cheyenne to visit his family when the accident occurred. Survivors include his wife, the former Virginia Culver, two children, Joseph Duane and Paul Anthony, all of Cheyenne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kershisnik Sr., and the following brothers and sisters: Frank, Max, John and Cecilia Kershisnik, all of Rock Springs; Mrs. John Godfrey and Mrs. Gerald Kellogg of Cheyenne, and Mrs. Robert Wortham of Madison, Wis. Funeral services for Neva Cantwell, 24, daughter of L.H. Cantwell of Rock Springs, will be held in Sheridan where Miss Cantwell had lived with her mother. She was stewardess on the doomed plane. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 5, 1942 Mrs. D. Fedrizzi Dies on Monday Mrs. David Fedrizzi, 60, died Monday evening at the Wyoming General hospital. She had been a patient there since the first of March. She is survived by her husband, David; five sons, Fred, Mario, Guido, Livio and one daughter, Katherine, all of Rock Springs. Funeral arrangements are pending. The Rogan Mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 6, 1942 Fedrizzi Rites To Be Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Domenica Fedrizzi, 60, who died at the Wyoming General hospital at 5 p.m. May 3 [sic], will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary will be said at the family home 1019 North Front street, at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening. Mrs. Fedrizzi had been ill in the hospital for the past two months. She was a well known resident of the community, having lived here for 30 years. She was born in Tueno, Tyrol, December 9, 1881. Survivors in addition to her husband, David Fedrizzi, include five sons, Fred, Mario, Guido, Livo and Joseph; a daughter, Katherine, two grandsons, David and Fred Jr.; one brother and two sisters living in Europe. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 12, 1942 Floretta Rites To Be Tuesday Funeral services for Emmett Adolph Floretta, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Floretta of Superior, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from the South Side Catholic church, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The youth died at the Wyoming General hospital at 10 a.m. Saturday after an illness of one day. He was born in Rock Springs June 29, 1932 and had lived in Superior since that time. Survivors in addition to his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Pete Menghini, 752 Rugby avenue, Rock Springs, grandparents. The body was taken there Monday night for rosary service at 7 p.m. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 12, 1942 Superior Woman Expires Monday Mrs. Violet Davis, 51, a resident of Superior, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 3:50 p.m. Monday after an illness of two months. Mrs. Davis, who was born at Chandler Creek, Colo., August 25, 1890, had been a resident of the community for 46 years. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Clifford Robinson of Superior and Mrs. John Tennant Jr., of Superior; three sons, William, Joseph and Austin Davis, all of Superior; two sisters, Mrs. Caldwell of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Agnes Saunders of Pueblo, Colo.; three brothers, Pete Lawson of Salt Lake City, John Lawson, Rock Springs and Robert Lawson of Hartford, Conn. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 12, 1942 LEON LEQUERICA SUCCUMBS AT LOCAL HOSPITAL Leon Lequerica, 49, Rock Springs resident for 12 years, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 11:40 a.m. Monday after an illness of several months. He had been at the hospital since Friday but had not been well since January. Lequerica was born in Spain April 11, 1893, and lived at Biscaya, Spaine before coming to the United States. He had been employed in Rock Springs as a bartender. In addition to the bartender’s union Lequerica was a member of the Eagles lodge. Survivors include a brother in Spain, and several cousins, including Julian Savala of Rock Springs. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending the arrival of relatives in Idaho. Rogan mortuary is in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 13, 1942 Lequerica Rites Set Wednesday Funeral services for Leon Lequerica, 49, of Rock Springs will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday from the South Side Catholic church, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Lequerica, a resident of the community 12 years, died at the Wyoming General hospital Monday morning after an extended illness. Survivors include a brother in Spain and several cousins. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 13, 1942 CRASH HURTS FATAL TO COLORED MAN A 47-year-old colored minister, severely injured in an automobile accident at Granger junction last October 8, died at the Wyoming General hospital Tuesday morning, having been a patient in the hospital continuously since that time. Coroner J. Warden Opie said there would be no inquest. The Rev. Granson Shines, whose home was in Poteau, Okla., was en route east with Edward Nobles, 64, of Pocatello, Idaho, at the time of the accident. Both colored men were brought to the Wyoming General hospital here and at the time it was thought that the condition of Nobles was most serious, the man being treated for facial lacerations and possibly internal injuries. Shine was said to have incurred severe back injuries, and was also treated for shock and bruises. The body was at Rogan mortuary awaiting the arrival here of Edward Nobles, who will take charge of the remains. It is believed the body will be taken back to Idaho. Little was known here concerning Shines’ relatives. Patrolmen E. Morgan who investigated the wreck last October reported at the time that the car was traveling east on U.S. highway 30N when it left the road at the Granger “Y”, hurtling across the triangular depression between the roads and skidding across U.S. highway 30S before it overturned on the south side of the highway, rolling over once. There was no other car involved. Highway patrolmen were uncertain as to how the death would be listed by the highway department. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 14, 1942 Wife Of Former U.P. Engineer Dies On Coast Word was received in Rock Springs Tuesday that Mrs. Charles Swann, formerly of Rock Springs, died Monday evening in Long Beach, Calif. Charles Swann was chief engineer for the Union Pacific Coal company for many years until his retirement last June, after which Mr. and Mrs. Swann went to California to make their home. News of Mrs. Swann’s death came as a shock to her many friends here, for although she had not been in good health for several years it was not known that her condition was serious. According to information received in Rock Springs, Charles Swann will take the body to Denver, Colo., for funeral services. Mrs. Swann’s sister lives there and a brother resides in Colorado Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 15, 1942 William Daniels Dies at Home; Services Sunday Williams Daniels, 67, well known Rock Springs man, died suddenly at his home, 128 Walnut street, about 6:30 a.m. Thursday. He was stricken with a heart attack while at the breakfast table, relatives said. Born September 12, 1878, in Wales, England, Daniels came to the United States when he was 12 years old, his parents settling at Evanston in August, 1887. Soon afterward he secured work in the coal mines, working for 15 or 16 years at Spring Valley and Cumberland, and then in Rock Springs for 20 years. Daniels was married August 20, 1907 to Robena Rae of Evanston. In addition to his wife he is survived by a son, William M. Daniels of Winton; a daughter, Mrs. Ronald McPhie of Rock Springs; two grandchildren, Anita Jean and Rhonda McPhie of Rock Springs; five brothers, Samuel Daniels of Chehalis, Wash., David Daniels of Rock Springs, John Daniels of Superior, Elijah Daniels of El Monte, Calif., and Dan Daniels of Rock Springs; and one sister Mrs. Cecelia Smith of Logan, Utah. Funeral services will be held from the L.D.S. chapel in Rock Springs at 2 p.m. Sunday. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 16, 1942 Daniels Rites To Be Sunday Funeral services for William Daniels, 67, Rock Springs resident who died suddenly at his home Thursday morning, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday from the L.D.S. chapel in Rock Springs, Bishop Cecil James officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Daniels, long time resident of the community and a member of one of the community’s best known families, is survived by his wife, one son and one daughter, five brothers and one sister. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 20, 1942 Superior Matron Expires Tuesday Mrs. John Croney, 67, a resident of Superior for more than 20 years, died about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Wyoming General hospital as the result of a stroke. She had been in ill health for about three years. Funeral services will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Croney was born in Austria in 1875 and came to the United States with her husband in 1920. Surviving in addition to her husband, Thomas Croney Sr., are three daughters, Mrs. Henry Nalivka of Superior, Mary Croney of Kemmerer, Susie Croney of Superior; four sons, John, Mike, Joe, all of Superior and Thomas Croney Jr. of Moscow, Idaho. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 21, 1942 Nels Jensen, 67, Dies Wednesday Nels Jensen, 67, a resident of the community for 28 years, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 1 p.m. Wednesday after being in the hospital one day. Funeral arrangements are pending, with Rogan mortuary in charge. Jensen had worked around Ogden and in southern Wyoming for the past 50 years and for the Union Pacific and Southern Wyoming Utilities companies. He had been employed as a pumper at Kanda, coming here in 1914. Only known relative of Jensen is Anna Peterson of Hutchinson, Minn. He was born in Denmark in 1875. He was unmarried. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 22, 1942 Brakeman Dies While On Run H.B. Robinson, passenger train brakeman for the Union Pacific, died suddenly at Bitter Creek Thursday morning while on duty. He had reportedly just stepped down from the train to operate a switch when he fell dead. Robinson’s home was in Cheyenne. The body was taken to Rawlins and Coroner J. Warden Opie went to Rawlins to make an investigation. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 23, 1942 LaCore Services Will Be Sunday John Lee LaCore, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. LaCore, 622 Second street, died at 8:50 a.m. Friday at the Wyoming General hospital after a brief illness. The boy, who was a first grader at Washington school, had been ill with measles and apparently developed meningitis, it was reported. He would have been eight years old Saturday. Funeral services will be held from the Rogan mortuary chapel at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Captain C. Nicolet of the Salvation army officiating. The body will be shipped to Pittsburgh, Kan., for burial. The family formerly resided in Kansas. Survivors include his parents, two brothers, George and Donald, two sisters, Patsy and Barbara. Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Upton McElfish live at Superior. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 23, 1942 Jensen Rites To Be In Minnesota The body of Nels Jensen, 67, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Wednesday, was shipped Friday evening to Hutchinson, Minn., to the home of a sister, where funeral services will be conducted. Jensen had been a resident of the community for about 28 years, working at Kanda as a pumpman. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 26, 1942 Earl Spanogle Dies Monday Earl J. Spanogle, 813 McCarty died late Monday evening at the Wyoming General hospital. He had been in the hospital two days. Spanogle, who was 38, had been a resident of the community for about five years. Survivors include his wife, Mildred, and four children, Garry, Joyce, Darlene and Connie Lee. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 27, 1942 Mother of Springs Woman Succumbs; Services Thursday Mrs. Karen Rasmussen of Casper, mother of Mrs. H.V. Hurst of Rock Springs, died at 9:50 p.m. Sunday in St. Vincent’s hospital, Billings, Mont., it was learned here Tuesday. Mrs. Rasmussen had gone to Billings for medical treatment and was not believed critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst left Rock Springs Saturday night for Billings. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, from the Wildermuth chapel. Survivors, in addition to her husband, R.P. Rasmussen, and her daughter, Mrs. Hurst, are a brother Albert Baye of Casper, a niece Mrs. Lloyd Eldridge of Casper, and grandchildren LaVere and Ben Chastain and Vestal Hurst. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 28, 1942 Spanogle Rites To Be Thursday Funeral services for Earl Joy Spanogle Jr., 38, who died at 9 p.m. Monday at the Wyoming General hospital, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday, the Rev. A.L. Jones officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. Spanogle, who was a coal miner and a member of the Reliance local union, UMWA, had been a resident of the community for about five years. Survivors, in addition to his wife, Mildred, include children, Garry, Joyce, Darlene, Constance; parents, Earl J. Spanogle Sr., Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Edith Stothman, Cody, Wyo.; a brother, Paul Spanogle of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Zuma Farikoff, Helper, Utah and Mrs. Zelma Staley, Bend, Ore. Spanogle was born November 25, 1903 at Cambria, Wyo. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, May 29, 1942 E. Miltnovich Dies Thursday Emil Miltnovich, 49, of Blairtown, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 5:28 a.m. Thursday after being in the hospital five days. He had been a resident of the community for 24 years. Survivors include his wife, Ella, a son Emil Jr., and two daughters, Mary and Ella, all of Blairtown; his mother, Mrs. Emil Miltnovich Sr., of Yugoslavia; a daughter, Mrs. Ella Ratkovich of Yugoslavia; a brother, Nick of Cleveland, Ohio, and three brothers, Dan, Peter and John of Jugoslavia. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday from the North Side Catholic church, the Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Burial will be in the local cemetery. Rosary services will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Rogan chapel. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jun 1942 April Injuries GUST WESEN, Finlander, age 59, married, timber puller, Section No. 2, “C” Mine, Superior. FATAL. Gust and his partner were pulling timber in a room which had just worked out the first skip in the pillar. The room had been crossbarred on approximately six-foot centers with six legs under each bar. Nine props were used as lagging for each set of cross bars. A breaker line consisting of three rows of timber had been set at the edge of the skip. The timber had been pulled from the skip and several crossbars from the room. There were three bars in place in front of the breaker line and Gust was digging under a prop which was under the third bar. Gust's partner said he heard the top crack and ran back. Gust apparently heard it also but was caught under the first bar when the top broke and rolled out three cross bars. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jun 1942 Winton Nick Jelaco was called home from Camp Barkeley, Texas, to attend the funeral of his brother, John Jelaco. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jun 1942 Superior Emmett Floretta, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Floretta, died Saturday, May 9th, at the Wyoming General Hospital after a short illness. He was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Menghini, of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 3, 1942 Bernice Keating, Lou Jean Draney Die in Crash Car Bursts Into Flames After Drop Off Bridge One of the most tragic highway automobile accidents in Wyoming in recent years claimed the lives of two Rock Springs residents 17 miles east of Lander Tuesday afternoon. Bernice Keating, 31, Rock Springs high school home economics teacher, and Loud Jean Draney, 13, daughter of Mrs. Estelle Draney of Rock Springs, perished when the car in which they were riding blew out a front tire and struck a bridge railing on Twin creek east of Lander and burned after dropping into a dry wash 15 feet below the bridge deck. The two were en route to Riverton when the accident occurred, about 5 p.m. Miss Keating and Lou Jean Draney had left Rock Springs about 11 a.m. Tuesday for Riverton, where the little girl was to visit Miss Keating and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Keating. It was first reported that there was a third occupant in the car but this report proved to be false. Sheriff Clayton Danks of Fremont county, the county coroner and deputy coroner, investigated and reported that the car sheared off several posts on the left side of the bridge railing and then caught fire after falling into the wash. Officers said rim marks on the highway indicated that the left front tire of Miss Keating’s car apparently blew out about 75 yards from the bridge, the car swerving into the left bridge railing and crashing through into the wash. The car burst into flames almost immediately and the intense heat from the burning wreckage prevented rescuers from removing the bodies for several hours, Sheriff Danks reported. Sheepshearers from a camp 400 yards away rushed to the car immediately afterward but were unable to extricate the trapped passengers from the burning car. The bridge was so badly damaged, presumably from fire, that traffic was being detoured around it on Tuesday night. Coroner E.E. Davis, called to the scene of the accident, found some papers bearing Miss Keating’s name, in luggage thrown clear of the car, and a telephone call to Rock Springs confirmed the identity of the car and two of the passengers. The license plates were also checked. Although Miss Keating was to have met her father in Rawlins to drive to Riverton, this plan was changed when she decided to wait until Tuesday morning to leave, instead of going Monday night. Her father called Leland Johnson in Rock Springs about 3 p.m. Tuesday to inquire about when Miss Keating had left. The accident occurred two hours later. Miss Keating was one of the most popular members of the younger set in Rock Springs, and was well known throughout the state through her work with the welfare department before coming to Rock Springs three years ago to teach home economics. She had attended Rock Springs High school on year when her parents lived here. Keating was the manager of the Northern Utilities company in Rock Springs for several years before moving to Riverton. Miss Keating is survived by a brother, James Keating in Oskosh, Neb., in addition to her parents. After taking several quarters of work at the University of Wyoming, Miss Keating attended the University of Idaho, Southern Branch, Moscow, Idaho, where she received her degree. She worked at Sheridan and later at Cheyenne with the welfare department before coming here to teach. Lou Jean Draney was the only daughter of Mrs. Draney, who has been bookkeeper for the high school for a number of years. The junior miss had completed the eighth grade this year and was to enter high school in the fall. She was one of the most popular members of her class and was prominent in all girls’ activities. Relatives of the Draney’s left Tuesday for Lander when advised of the tragedy. The girl’s body was being returned to Rock Springs last night. The deaths bring the state highway fatality toll to 19 for the year. On June 1 the total road deaths in Wyoming stood at 17 compared with 31 at the same time in 1941. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 4, 1942 John Eusek Sr. Dies At Home John Eusek Sr., 56, city park night watchman for several years, died at his home 739 Connecticut avenue, Wednesday morning after receiving treatment for some time previously at the Wyoming General hospital. Born December 15, 1885, in Dabovec, Slovenia, Eusek came to the United States about 1915 and to Rock Springs shortly thereafter. He was a member of the Slovenian S.N.P.J. lodge. Surviving are his wife, Ursula and a son, also his mother and two brothers. Funeral services will be held from the North Side Catholic church at 9 a.m. Saturday, burial in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary services will be at the family home at 8 p.m. Friday. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 4, 1942 Joe Gottardi, 51, Dies Wednesday Joe (Casey) Gottardi, 51, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 4:30 Wednesday after a brief illness. He has no surviving relatives in this community, but his mother and father, three brothers and two sisters reside in Italy. Gottardi was born March 19, 1891, in Italy, and came to the United States in the early 1900s, moving to Rock Springs in 1909. Recently he was foreman for the CCC camp at Green River and was later transferred to Big Piney. For the past five months he has been employed as a bartender in Rock Springs. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 4, 1942 RITES ARE SET FOR VICTIMS OF CAR CRASH Funeral services for Bernice Keating, Rock Springs high school teacher who was killed in an automobile accident 17 miles east of Lander Tuesday afternoon, will be held from the Catholic church in Riverton at 10 a.m. Friday, friends in Rock Springs were advised Wednesday. Funeral services for Lou Jean Draney, 13, second victim of the tragic accident, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday from the Congregational church, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. The girl was the daughter of Mrs. Estelle Draney of Rock Springs and Leland Draney of Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Relatives of the girl who returned the body to Rock Springs reported that there were no witnesses to the fatal crash, when the car apparently blew out a front tire and careened into a bridge railing and plunged into the dry wash 14 feet below. Rescue efforts were thwarted by the fact that the blazing car, which caught fire as it came to rest on its side, ignited the wooden bridge, part of which collapsed on the car. It was impossible to removed the bodies for several hours, they reported. Miss Keating was en route to her home in Riverton after completed the school year here, and was taking the Draney girl to visit with friends. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 5, 1942 Gottardi Rites Will Be Sunday Funeral services for Joe (Casey) Gottardi, 51, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Wednesday morning will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday from the South Side Catholic church. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Rosary will be said at the Rogan chapel at 7 p.m. Saturday. Gottardi has been a resident of the community for more than 30 years, and had been employed as a bartender. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 5, 1942 DRANEY RITSE TO BE FRIDAY Funeral services for Lou Jean Draney, 13, daughter of Mrs. Estelle Draney of Rock Springs, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday from the Congregational church, the Rev. Keenan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. Last rites for Bernice Keating, who died with Lou Jean Draney in an automobile crash 17 miles east of Lander Tuesday afternoon, will be held in Riverton at 10 a.m. Friday. Burial will be in the Riverton cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 6, 1942 Wife of Sublette Clerk Succumbs; Rites In Pinedale Mrs. Ida Faler, 34, wife of Faren C. Faler of Pinedale, county clerk and clerk of the court, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 9 a.m. Friday. Arrangements were being made to take the body to Pinedale Friday evening, and funeral services were tentatively set for Sunday in Pinedale. Rogan mortuary was in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 6, 1942 J. KARLICK, 85, DIES FRIDAY AT HOSPITAL Joseph Karlick, 85, for many years a familiar figure in the Rock Springs community, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 11:45 a.m. Friday after an illness of several weeks. The body is at Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. Karlick had not worked for a number of years, but prior to his retirement he was an employee of the Union Pacific Coal company, being one of the oldest employees of the company at the time he retired. No known relatives of Karlick live in this community. He lived at the Park hotel during the last years of his life. Karlick reportedly fled from Russia as a youth, long before the turn of the century, when his wealthy family was massacred in one of the Russian revolutions. In his younger days Karlick was known as somewhat of a “dandy” in the Rock Springs community, regularly donning high silk hat and swallow-tailed coat for the occasions when he appeared socially. Although age deprived him of his usual vigor he maintained his immaculate dress and correct manners with fastidiousness befitting the aristocratic background which he claimed. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 9, 1942 TRUCKER ADMITS HIGHWAY DEATHS Driver of Truck Killing Two Sandy CCC Youths Is Arrested in Granger Ford Dimmick, 34, of Lava, Idaho, driver for the Collett Tank Line of Salt Lake City, late Monday night confessed to Sheriff M.J. Dankowski that he was the driver of the truck which struck two Big Sandy CCC enrollees on the highway two miles south of Farson early Saturday morning. Dimmick was taken into custody by Sheriff Dankowski in Granger late Monday evening, followed three days of investigation of the accident. The Idaho man had reported the accident from Eden shortly after it had happened. The arrest was made after Dankowski and Deputy Sheriff D. Ramsay had talked with a group of Superior men who were present at the Eden store when Dimmick reported the accident. The men, who were on a weekend fishing trip, included H.W. Magee, Elmer Ensee and John Raunio. Sheriff Dankowski and Ramsay talked to the men Monday evening and later went to Granger where Dimmick had been forced to stop a trip with his truck for repairs. Dankowski said that Dimmick confessed that he had struck the youths and early Tuesday morning gave a statement to County Attorney Joseph H. Galicich. Dimmick told the sheriff that the two youths were laying on the oiled mat of the highway and that he came upon them so quickly that he could do nothing to avoid hitting them. The bodies of the dead youths—Roy S. Witt, 18, of Chavies, Ky., son of Mrs. Betty S. Witt of Chavies, and Harold F. Nazelrod, 18, of Coalton, W.Va., son of Mrs. Cecilia Nazelrod—were taken to a Kemmerer mortuary where arrangements are being made. Meantime, County Coroner J. Warden Opie had not yet set a date for the inquest, pending developments in the case. Ed Kessner, Robert Armstrong and Art Hafey were named to the coroner’s jury and investigated the scene of the accident Saturday afternoon. According to investigating officers—Sergeant Dickson and Deputy Sheriff D. Ramsay—the youths were walking south on the highway when they were struck by a car, also going south. The bodies had been dragged considerable distance by the car. From the first bloodstains it was 260 feet to where the first body was found and the second was nearly a half mile from the point of impact. Officers said that apparently the driver had stopped his car after hitting the youths, for a pool of blood was found on the highway. Officers said they believed the accident occurred about midnight Friday for the youths had been seen in the Big Sandy CCC, 11 ½ miles from Farson, camp about 9:30 p.m. They were absent without leave when the accident occurred, officers said. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 10, 1942 Michael Grobon Expires at Home Michael A. Grobon, 5½-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Grobon of Rock Springs, died at the home of his parents, 114 First street, Tuesday morning. He had been ill for some time. Survivors in addition to his parents are, maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Zanoni of Rock Springs; two aunts, Mrs. Nick Duzik and Mrs. M.R. Repasky, both of Rock Springs. Funeral services will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Rogan mortuary is in charge. The body will be taken to the family home Wednesday afternoon. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 10, 1942 Miklaucic Rites Are Thursday Funeral services for Joe Miklaucic, 74, who died at the Wyoming General hospital at 3:55 a.m. June 6 after an extended illness, will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday from the North Side Catholic church, the Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. The body will be taken to the home of Mrs. John Filipovich, 1028 Eighth street, at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Born in Yugoslavia, Miklaucic came to the community in 1908 and had lived here ever since. He had been employed as a miner but had not worked for a number of years. Survivors include two sons, Louis of Rock Springs and Frank of Murray, Utah; and two daughters, Francis in Yugoslavia and Mary in Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 11, 1942 Trucker Absolved In Road Death By Jury; Fined For Not Reporting Fully Ford Dimmick, Lava Hot Springs truck driver, was free Wednesday afternoon after a coroner’s jury had absolved him of blame in the death of two CCC youths last Friday night and a fine of $50 was paid by the driver for failure to make a complete report of the accident. A coroner’s jury meeting at the Rogan mortuary at 9 a.m. Wednesday with Coroner J. warden Opie presiding found that the two youths, Roy S. Witt and Harold E. Nazelrod, both 18, came to their deaths “when struck by a truck driven by Ford Dimmick.” The verdict further stated that “we find that there was no fault of carelessness on the part of Ford Dimmick but that the deaths of said Roy Witt and Harold E. Nazelrod were caused by their own negligence.” Jurors were A.M. Hafey, G.E. Kessner and Robert Armstrong. County Attorney Joseph H. Galicich interrogated the witnesses also. After being absolved of blame in striking the two youths, who were allegedly lying flat in the center of the highway when the truck ran straddle of their bodies, Dimmick was fined $50 before Justice of the Peace E.E. Johnson for failure to make a complete report on the accident. Although he reported finding the body of one of the youths, Sheriff M.J. Dankowski said, the driver did not want to reveal to officers that his truck had struck the youths. Witnesses at the inquest included Dr. K.E. Drueger, who described the injuries sustained by the boys, both of whom died instantaneously from fractured skulls; Art Keeler, Farson farmer who had passed the two boys on the highway a short time before the accident occurred; Deputy Sheriff D. Ramsay, who was the first officer to arrive at the accident; Sgt. Howard Dickson of the highway patrol, who arrived shortly afterward and later inspected the truck. Dimmick testified that when his truck topped the slight rise just north of the accident scene (two miles south of Farson) his headlights revealed a dark object in the center of the highway, which he thought resembled an old coat or article of clothing. Dimmick said he swung his truck and semi-trailer straddle of the object rather than swinging to the should of the highway, believing that all of the wheels would miss the object. He related that after his truck has progressed to a point where he thought the trailer would be clear of the object he stopped and went back to look at the object with a flashlight, discovering that it was the body of a man. Unable to make his flares work, Dimmick said he drove on down to Eden and roused several men who returned wit him to the scene. They came upon the body of the second youth en route back to the point of the accident and Dimmick first believed the body had been moved, until a motorist driving south informed him and the others gathered around the body that another body lay up the highway half a mile. After talking to officers Dimmick asked permission to leave and was allowed to do so, he testified. “I wanted to tell them everything, but I just couldn’t. I was scared,” said Dimmick. “Then when the sheriff talked to me just like my dad, and I told him everything I wanted to tell, and I’m glad I did tell everything.” Dimmick said he could not explain the presence of the boys in the center of the road, lying down, except that they might have been asleep. He said he saw no movement as the truck approached them. The bumper and front axle of the truck apparently cleared the prone bodies, testimony of Howard Dickson revealed, but from seven feet back of the front bumper there was considerable evidence of spattered blood, bits of flesh and bone, and hair. Lowest point under the truck was the spare tire carrier and it was believed that the one youth may have been caught against this and dragged to the point where his body was found. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 12, 1942 John Liddy Dies At Home Thursday John J. Liddy, 60, who lived at 122 South Front street, died at his home Thursday afternoon. The body is at Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. Liddy, who had been a resident of the community for more than 20 years, had been employed as a mechanic. Survivors include Martin Liddy of Cheyenne, brother, Mrs. Lafe Gordon of Wisconsin, sister, and Arthur Liddy of Ft. Sheridan, Ill., brother. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 12, 1942 Todeschi Rites Will Be Sunday Funeral services for Anton Todeschi, 75, who died Wednesday evening, will be held from the South Side Catholic church at 3 p.m. Sunday, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rosary will be said at the Rogan chapel, 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Todeschi had been a resident of the community for 36 years, employed here as a miner before his retirement. He made his home at 1022 Eighth street. Born in Tyrol, Austria, Todeschi came here shortly after the turn of the century. He is survived by six children. Three sons, Celestine and Emanuel of Rock Springs, and Silvio of Homedale, Idaho, survive and three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Butcher of Rock Springs and Mrs. Attilia and Mrs. Paolina of Tyrol. --- Green River Star, Jun 12, 1942 Mrs. Ida Faler Dies Suddenly At Pinedale Mrs. Ida Faler, 34, of Pinedale died suddenly last Friday morning, June 5, at her home. She is survived by her husband, County Clerk Faren Faler, and two sons, Kenneth, 11 and Ray age 8. Other survivors include her mother, Mrs. Agnes Turner of Green River; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Turner, Green River, brother and sister-in-law; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Turner, brother and sister-in-law, of Green River; and Mrs. W. A. Painter, sister. Among those from Green River who attended the funeral of Mrs. Faler were Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Toone, Mrs. James Astle, Bishop Albert Reinsch, Mrs. Sam Faes and son, Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pearson, Mrs. Otis Lee, Lyman Fearn, C. O. Horton, W. A. PaintJer, Ogden, and Mrs. W. R. McLelland and daughter, Nancy, of Salt Lake City. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 16, 1942 Former Resident Dies In Montana Henry William Garrison, 34, died suddenly at 6 o’clock Saturday evening at his home in Circle, Mont. Garrison is a former resident of Rock Springs and until a year and a half ago was co-manager of the Model Service station, 514 Center street. Mr. Garrison is survived by his wife, Viola, two daughters, Jessie, 10, and Lucille, age 4, of Circle; his mother, Mrs. Hannah Keller, sister Barbara; brothers, Charles and Ed. Mrs. Keller and sons left at once for Circle, where funeral arrangements are pending. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 18, 1942 Mrs. J. Genetti Dies After Extended Illness Mrs. James Genetti, 63, a resident of Rock Springs for 40 years, died at Wyoming General hospital at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. She had been in the hospital one week but had been in ill health for the last four years. Erminea Anselmi Genetti was born in Brez, Tyrol, in September, 1878. In 1902 she came to the United States, coming directly to Rock Springs where she had since made her home. She married James Genetti here shortly after her arrival in this city. He preceded her in death almost exactly three years ago today. Mrs. Genetti is survived by three sons, Edward and August of Rock Springs and James of Green River; two daughters, Mrs. Josephine Jensen and Mrs. Andrew Hoskins of Rock Springs and four grandchildren. She also leaves three brothers and two sisters. They are V.A. and Anton Anselmi of Rock Springs, Mrs. Felix Menghini of Superior and a brother and a sister her reside in Tyrol. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m. Friday from the South Side Catholic church and the rosary will be said at 7:15 p.m. Thursday evening at the Rogan chapel. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 18, 1942 Joe Gutierrez Funeral Today Funeral service for Joseph Gutierrez, 65, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the South Side Catholic church. Gutierrez died at Wyoming General hospital at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. He was a native of New Mexico and had lived in Rock Springs for the last 25 years. Recently he was employed on PWA. Gutierrez is survived by a daughter, Mrs. A.W. Smith of Ely, Nev.; a sister, Mrs. F.G. Apodaca of Rawlins; three nephews, P.R. Branch of Laramie, Alfred and Emil Branch of Rock Springs and a niece, Mrs. John Rossetti of Rock Springs. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Apodaca and P.R. Branch are in the city for the funeral this morning. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 18, 1942 James DeBortoli Dies at Hospital James William DeBortoli, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anton DeBortoli of Salt Wells, died at Wyoming General hospital at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. He had been a patient at the hospital since June 12. He is survived by his parents, one brother, John, and one sister, Josephine, all of Salt Wells. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday from the South Side Catholic church, followed by burial in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The rosary will be said at 7:15 p.m. Friday at the Rogan mortuary chapel. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 23, 1942 Sarcletti Rites To Be Wednesday Funeral services for Joseph Sarcletti, about 54, who died Monday morning at the Wyoming General hospital will be held at 9:30 a.m. from the South Side Catholic church, the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Rogan mortuary is in charge. Rosary will be said at the Rogan chapel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Sarcletti is survived by one brother, August, in Rock Springs, a brother, Ernest in Tyrol, Austria, where he was born, and his mother and sister in Scarletti, Austria. He had been a resident of the community for about 30 years. He had been in the hospital 24 days. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 23, 1942 Funeral Services For Mrs. Kovach Held on Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Kovach, 32, wife of John Kovach, of Reliance, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday, were held at 1 p.m. Monday from the L.D.S. church, Bishop Cecil James officiating. Burial was in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Kovach was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Spence of Dines, and granddaughter of Mrs. Ellen Williams of Rock Springs. Surviving in addition to the above are her three children, John Jr., Mary Anne and Diane; two brothers, James of Green River and William who is in the army; and one sister, Audrey Spence. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 23, 1942 Miner Dies At Hospital After Suffering Stroke Michael Yakimovich, 67, who lived at 1207 Eleventh street, died at the Wyoming General hospital about 8:22 p.m. Monday, after suffering a stroke at the Union Pacific Coal company in Rock Springs. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. He is survived by his wife, Mary Yakimovich, four daughters, Mrs. Harry Larson, Rock Springs, Mrs. Steve Kosovich, Dines, Mrs. Robert Colombo, Dines, Mary Yakimovich of Rock Springs and three sons, Michael Jr., John, Rock Springs and Andrew of the U.S. army. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 23, 1942 Liska Funeral This Morning Funeral services for Franklin J. Liska, 6-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Liska of Rock Springs, will be held from the Rogan chapel at 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The infant, first baby born in the new maternity wing of the Wyoming General hospital and winner of the $10 award from Governor Smith, is survived by his parents; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Zelenka of Reliance; and grandmother, Mrs. Emma Liska of Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 27, 1942 Former Resident Of This City Dies In Ogden EVANSTON, June 26 (Special)—Hilda McPHie, 46, wife of Andrew McPhie, Union Pacific railroad engineer, died Friday morning in an Ogden hospital after an extended illness. Born January 16, 1896 in Micklefield, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson, she came to Rock Springs at the age of 14 with her mother, sister and younger brother to join her father and older brothers who were employed in the mines there. Mrs. McPhie attended Rock Springs schools and was married May 10, 1914 in Superior. The family moved to Evanston in 1915. Mrs. McPhie was an associate matron of the Esther chapter No. 9, O.E.S., junior past guardian of Bethel No. 19 Order of Jobs Daughters, a member of the W.B.A., Rocky Mountain division 102 of G.I.A., Round Mountain Circle No. 411 Neighbors of Woodcraft, Union Pacific Old Timers auxiliary. Survivors include her husband, two sons, Ernest and Frank, a daughter, Patricia Ann, all of Evanston; three brothers, Harold W. Hopkinson of Ogden, Abernard Hopkinson of Evanston and Ernest A. Hopkinson of Mountain View. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Masonic temple under the auspices of Esther chapter. Emma Maggard will conduct the service assisted by the Rev. Edward White of the Methodist church. Burial will be in the Masonic cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 30, 1942 SERVICES FOR ARTHUR RAY HELD MONDAY Funeral services for Arthur D. Ray, 42, who died of a heart attack at his home Saturday morning, were held Monday afternoon from the Masonic Temple. The Rev. E.E. Atchinson of the Baptist church officiated and burial was in Mountain View cemetery. Ray, who was born in Thermopolis, Sept. 14, 1899, is survived by his wife, Alice; daughter, Lorraine; and two brothers, Ivan Ray of Rock Springs and Harry O. Ray of Thermopolis. He came to Rock Springs nine years ago and operated a truck line, transporting crude oil from the Hiawatha and Powder Wash fields to Rock Springs for the Mountain Fuel Supply company. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jul 1942 Obituary, Mike Yakimovich, Sr. We regret to announce the death of Old Timer Mike Yakimovich, Sr., of Rock Springs, who passed away at the Wyoming General Hospital on Monday, June 22nd, having suffered a paralytic stroke but twelve hours earlier while at work in Rock Springs No. 4 Mine. Mike was born in Czechoslovakia in December, 1875, and had been in the employ of The Union Pacific Coal Company since 1907, a total of 34 years. He is survived by his wife, Mary, by four daughters, Mrs. Harry Larson, Rock Springs, Mrs. Steve Kosovich, Dines, Mrs. Robert Colombo, Dines, and Mary Yakimovich, Rock Springs, and by three sons, Michael, Jr., and John, of Rock Springs, and Andrew, who is in the U. S. Army. Rosary was said at the family home, 1207 Eleventh Street, on June 24th, and burial was in Mountain View Cemetery, Rock Springs, on the following day, June 25th. Services were held in the North Side Catholic Church, with the Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. We regret the passing of this esteemed member of our Old Timers' Association, and sympathy is extended to his family. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jul 1942 First “Gold Star” Employe, World War No. Two Earl McDonald Gibbs was born at Superior, Wyoming, on August 20, 1916. In 1917, together with his parents, he moved to Cumberland, then to Reliance in 1918, and later to Winton in March, 1932. On August 21, 1934, Mr. Gibbs entered the service of The Union Pacific Coal Company at Winton, remaining until May 24, 1938, at which time he was granted a leave of absence to go to California on account of poor health. He was re-employed on January 10, 1939, and continued in the service of the Company until November 26, 1940, when he was again given a leave of absence to enlist in the United States Air Corps. He was inducted into this branch of military service at Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 4, 1941. Following his induction, Mr. Gibbs was assigned to the 45th Air Squadron at Hamilton Field, California, for schooling and training. On March 12, 1941, Earl was stricken with a rare and incurable disease known as “Aplastic Anemia” from which he died on May 3, 1941, at the Letterman General Hospital, The Presidio, San Francisco. During his illness Earl Gibbs was constantly attended by two Army medical men who were regarded as specialists in diseases of this nature. A renowned professor from the University of California who had done extensive research work in attempting to find a definite cure for the malady, also studied the case. Earl was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gibbs who now reside at Bountiful, Utah, having moved there following Mr. Gibbs' retirement as Master Mechanic at Winton, on September 16, 1941. Mr. Richard Gibbs entered the service of The Union Pacific Coal Company at Scofield on July 2, 1894, and had continuous service up until the time he retired because of poor health. He is a life member of The Union Pacific Coal Company's Old Timers Association. Mr. Gibbs has two remaining sons who are now in our service, William Gibbs, Mine Clerk at Reliance, and Martin Gibbs, Motorman at Reliance. As this is written, 307 employes of the Company have entered the service of the armed forces, and Mr. Earl McDonald Gibbs stands as the first of our employes to rank as a “Gold Star” death in World War II. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Jul 1942 Winton Mrs. Joe Nunes, of Denver, Colorado, passed away after a long illness, and her mother, Mrs. Helen Anderson, and Mrs. Kate Warinner recently returned from Denver, having been called there on account of Mrs. Nunes’ illness. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 1, 1942 ED KIVIAHO DIES TUESDAY Ed Kiviaho, about 37, died at the Wyoming General hospital at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday. He had been a patient at the institution about a month. The body was taken to Rogan Mortuary where funeral arrangements are pending. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 2, 1942 KIVIAHO RITES TO BE SUNDAY Funeral services for Eino Edward Kiviaho, 37, 604 Fourth street, who died Tuesday night at the Wyoming General hospital, will be held at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon from the Rogan Mortuary chapel. The Rev. A.L. Jones, rector of the Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Mr. Kiviaho was born in Rock Springs on Nov. 30, 1904, and was educated in the Rock Springs schools. He was an electrician and made his home in the city all his life. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kiviaho, and two brothers, John F. Kiviaho of Rock Springs and A.A. Kiviaho of Honolulu. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 7, 1942 Son Of Springs Woman Is Drowning Victim Wyoming’s only holiday tragedy on July Fourth was the drowning of an 18-year-old Rawlins youth, the son of a Rock Springs resident. Billy J. Gordon Jr., son of Mrs. James Paul, 843 North Front street, was drowned in a reservoir near Rawlins during a holiday picnic Saturday. Four other youths were unable to rescue him. Funeral services will be held in Rawlins Tuesday afternoon. The youth, a frail boy and a poor swimmer, paddled to the middle of the tank, used for stock, when his strength gave out. A companion swam out to attempt to rescue but Gordon struggled so much the boy could not save him. The boys ran into town for help and city officers, using grappling hooks, brought the body to the surface about an hour later. Attempts by the fire department to revive him with a resuscitator were in vain. Young Gordon was a junior in high school last year. His was the second tragic death in his class since the close of school. His classmate, John Fyksen, committed suicide by shooting himself two weeks ago. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 7, 1942 Brother Of Local Woman Killed In British Air Action Mrs. W.T. Nightingale of Rock Springs received word Monday that her brother, Captain Frank S. Stacher Jr., was killed in action over England on July 1. Captain Stacher, an American bomber pilot, visited his sister in Rock Springs several times, landing his plane at the old Rock Springs airport north of the city. The news of Captain Stacher’s death was received in an official message from the adjutant general of the U.S. army in London, England. No details were contained in the message. Captain Stacher was a graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, N.M., and had studied at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. Early in 1940 he resigned a reserve commission as first lieutenant of the cavalry in the U.S. army in order to become a flying cadet. He received his wings as a flying second lieutenant in 1940 and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1941. He became a captain this year. He has been in England attached to the United States bomber command since last May. In addition to his sister, Mrs. Nightingale, Captain Stacher is survived by his parents, two other sisters and an older brother, all residents of New Mexico, where Captain Stacher’s father, now retired, was for many years superintendent of the East Navajo Indian Agency at Crown Point, N.M. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 9, 1942 Former Springs Resident Dies in Denver Mrs. Anna Davis of Green River left Wednesday night to attend the funeral services of her sister, Mrs. Agnes I. Kessner, 1265 Cherokee street, Denver, which will be held at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Kessner, wife of Ed E. Kessner of Denver, died at her home Monday morning. She is a former resident of Rock Springs. Her survivors are her husband, one son, Archie Smith of Rawlins; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Mackey, Denver, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hood, Superior; her mother, Mrs. E.J. Dykes of Denver; two brothers, John L. Dykes of Rock Springs and Archibald Dykes of Los Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Davis of Green River and Mrs. Lettie Hunt of Salt Lake City; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 10, 1942 Willison Rites Will Be Held Saturday Funeral services for James B. Willison, 78, who died in the Veterans’ hospital at Fort Lyon, Colo., will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Rogan Mortuary chapel. Mr. Willison is survived by one brother, Matthew Willison of Rock Springs. The body will arrive at 6 p.m. Friday. Bishop Cecil James of the LDS church and the American Legion will be in charge of the services. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery under direction of the Rogan Mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 11, 1942 Hathaway Rites To Be Held This Afternoon Funeral services for the Rev. F.E. Hathaway will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Saturday from the Methodist church. The Rev. Mr. Hathaway, pastor of the Rock Springs Methodist church for the last year, died in Wyoming General hospital Thursday evening following an illness of 10 days. The Rev. James Walker of Casper, district superintendent of Methodist churches, and the Rev. Charles E. Hardesty of Casper will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery under the direction of the Wildermuth Mortuary. The Rev. Mr. Hathaway is survived by his wife, a son and daughter, his parents, two sisters and a brother. At the time he was stricken ill, he was filling his first pastorate, having entered the ministry in Rock Springs after teaching and serving as a YMCA boys’ work secretary for many years. He came here with his family from Douglas, Wyo., where he was manual training and social science instructor. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 17, 1942 Colored Woman In Green River Dies Mrs. Emma Garrett, 71-year-old colored resident of Green River died at her home there at 11:57 p.m. Wednesday. She had live din Green River for the last 11 months. Mrs. Garrett is survived by two sons, Felix, of Winnamucca, Nev., and Oliver of Oakland, and three daughters, Mrs. Cassie Lindley of Oakland, and Mrs. Mayme Battee and Mrs. Mable Russell of Laramie. Mrs. Garrett was born in Cleburne, Texas, in 1871. Her body will be shipped there by the Rogan mortuary for burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 18, 1942 Mother of Reliance Man Dies in Illinois Guy Thomas of Reliance received a telegram Friday afternoon stating that his mother, Mrs. Guy Thomas Sr., had died that day at her home in Cutler, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Thomas, accompanied by his daughters, Mrs. Leonard Martin and Helen Thomas left by car for Illinois at 6 o’clock Friday evening and will be joined by another daughter, Harriet, who is attending the university in Laramie. A grandson of Mrs. Thomas, Lyman Kraft, his wife and daughter, Jean, left by car at the same time to attend his grandmother’s funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 18, 1942 Green River Man Dies In Denver Brooks M. Lucas of Green River died Friday morning in Fitzsimmons hospital in Denver. Mr. Lucas is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. William Lucas of Green River. The body will be brought to the Rogan mortuary here where it will await funeral services and interment in Green River. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 21, 1942 Lucas Services Will Be Today Graveside services for Brooks M. Lucas of Green River, a World war veteran who died at Fitzsimmons hospital in Denver late last week, will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Riverview cemetery in Green River. The Green River post of the American Legion will be in charge of the services. The body which arrived in Rock Springs early Tuesday morning will be taken to the home of the deceased’s sister-in-law, Mrs. William Lucas, in Green River where it will lie in state until 4 o’clock. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 21, 1942 Sheepherder Dies At Hospital Sunday Guadalupe Campa, 57, died at Wyoming General hospital at 9:15 a.m. Sunday. He was a sheepherder and resided at 562 South Front street. He was a native of Mexico but had live din the United States for 44 years. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. It is not known if Campa has any relatives living. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 21, 1942 Dolenc Rites To Be Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Dolenc, 62, will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the North Side Catholic church. Rev. Albin Gnidovec will officiate. Mrs. Dolenc died early Saturday at her home at 927 North Front street following a prolonged illness. She had been a resident of Rock Springs for 44 years. Her husband, John Dolence, died here 13 years ago. Mrs. Dolenc was born in Jugoslavia Jan. 21, 1880. Surviving her are two sons, Frank and Fred Dolenc of Rock Springs; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Pivik of Louisville, Colo., Mrs. Lucas Mekloncic and Mrs. John Skubic of Rock Springs; eight grandchildren and four sisters, Mrs. Anton Justin of Rock Springs, Mrs. John Demshar and Mrs. Joe Dorrence of Homedale, Idaho, and Mrs. Jennie Justin, who resides in Jugoslavia. Burial will be in the Dolenc family plot in St. Joseph’s cemetery in charge of the Rogan mortuary. The body was removed to the family home at 11 o’clock Monday morning. Rosary was said by the Knights of Columbus at 7 p.m. Monday and by St. Anne’s and the Sacred Heart altar societies at 7:30. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 24, 1942 VICTOR THEVIL DIES IN WINTON MINE ACCIDENT Victor Thevil, 47, of Rock Springs was killed Thursday morning in Winton Number One mine of the Union Pacific Coal company when a loaded trip got out of control and knocked another car loose which pinned Mr. Thevil against the side of the parting. Coroner J. Warden Opie, whose jury investigated the scene of the accident, said Thursday that the jury believed that a screw nut on a hand brake stripped off suddenly releasing the loaded four-car trip. The trip, they thought, then rolled down the slope and derailed, jarring loose another car. Thevil, who was running rope, then ran to the rib where the car struck him, pinning him to the side. A brother of deceased died June 27, 1939 of injuries suffered in an accident at the Peacock mine of the Colony Coal company. Surviving are four brothers, Charles Thevil of Chicago, and Leo, Gus and Joseph Thevil of Kirksville, MO., and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Davis and Mrs. Edith Van Derbeck, also of Kirksville. The only surviving relative known to be in Rock Springs is a sister-in-law, Mrs. Irene Thevil. The coroner’s jury composed of Pat Murdock, Robert Nesbitt, and Frank Fox will meet Friday night at the Winton mine office for the inquest. Witnesses expected to be called are Stewart Tate, driver of the trip, Ernest McTee, Vance Dernovich, Dave Paton, Jesse Hester and Sylvester Tynsky. --- Green River Star, Jul 24, 1942 Final Rites Held For B. Lucas Brooks M. Lucas of Green River, died Friday morning in Fitzsimmons hospital, Denver, Colo. Mr. Lucas is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. William Lucas, of Green River. Lucas served 12 years as a member of the U. S. army, and spent the last twelve years of his life in veteran's hospitals. The Tom Whitmore Post No. 28, of the American Legion, performed the funeral services at the Riverview cemetery at 3:30 p. m., Tuesday afternoon. Members of Troop I, Wyoming State Guard, acted as the guard of honor, firing the last salute. The body was brought from Denver to the Rogan mortuary, who transported the body here for the funeral service and interment. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 28, 1942 UNIDENTIFIED MAN IS FOUND DEAD COKEVILLE, July 27 (Special)—An unidentified transient, known only by the name of “Alabam,” was found dead about 10 o’clock Friday night at the rear of a bar in Cokeville. Sheriff Earl Ellsworth of Kemmerer and the county coroner were summoned, and after an investigation, officers said the man apparently died of acute alcoholism. He had been employed on a railroad extra gang, officers said. The officers took charge of the body and took it to Kemmerer. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 28, 1942 P. Kontsobeses Expires Monday Paraskevas Kontsobeses, better known to many in Rock Springs as “Pete,” died at Wyoming General hospital at 3:35 a.m. Monday where he had been a patient for two weeks. He was 68 years old and had resided in the Rock Springs community for 18 years. For the last several months he lived at the infirmary at the hospital. “Pete” was born on the Isle of Crete, Greece. After serving in the French army in the first World War he came to the United States. The body is at the Rogan mortuary, pending funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 31, 1942 Kontsobeses Rites Will Be Friday Funeral services for Paraskevas Kontsobeses, 68, will be held at the Rogan mortuary chapel at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. A.L. Jones of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, will officiate, followed by burial in Mountain View cemetery. Kontsobeses was better known in Rock Springs as “Pete.” He was a native of Greece and fought in the French army in the first World war, coming to this country shortly after the close of the war. He had lived in the Rock Springs community for 18 years. Kontsobeses died at Wyoming General hospital early Monday. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jul 31, 1942 Kendall Infant to Be Buried at Steamboat Springs The body of Harvey Clyde Kendall Jr., one-day-old son of Mrs. Harvey C. Kendall, who died at Wyoming General hospital Tuesday shortly after its birth, was shipped to Steamboat Springs, Colo., Thursday for interment. The infant’s father, Harvey C. Kendall, died in February and is buried at Steamboat Springs. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Aug 1942 Rev. F. E. Hathaway Dies The entire community of Rock Springs was deeply shocked to learn of the death of the Rev. F. E. Hathaway, pastor of the Rock Springs Methodist Church for the past year. He was taken ill at his home at the Methodist parsonage early in July, and died at the Wyoming General Hospital on Thursday, July 9th, peritonitis being the immediate cause of death. The Rev. Mr. Hathaway and his family came to Rock Springs a year ago, when he took charge of the Methodist Church here. It was his first pastorate, which he accepted after leaving the teaching profession which he had followed for several years. He had taught manual arts and social science in the Woodward, Iowa, and Douglas, Wyoming, high schools before entering the ministry, and at one time was also engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in Denver, Pueblo, and Grand Junction, Colorado. Although the Hathaways have lived in Rock Springs but a year they have many friends here. The Rev. Mr. Hathaway was regarded by all who knew him as a man well prepared for his chosen work, that of a minister of the gospel. He possessed a pleasing personality and a wide and sympathetic understanding of the problems that confronted him in his work. He was an ardent Scouter, and was active in the Scout work in this locality. He was skilled in leather and beadcraft, bow-and-arrow work, etc., and did much fine work among the younger folks here. He is survived by his wife, one son, Bob, and a daughter, Jean; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hathaway, of Loveland, Colorado; one brother, Darrel, of Casper, Wyoming, and two sisters, Mrs. E. E. Gale, of Casper, and Mrs. Harry Kopp, of Stuart, Nebraska. Burial was in Mountain View cemetery under the direction of Wildermuth mortuary, the funeral services being held Saturday, July 11th, at the Methodist Church, with the Rev. James Walker, of Casper, district superintendent of Methodist Churches, and the Rev. Charles S. Hardesty, pastor of the Casper Methodist Church, officiating. The pallbearers were S. M. Boucher, Thomas Crane, Jerry Joyce, Brooks Rickard, Thomas Smith, and Albert Walters. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Aug 1942 Rock Springs James Smith was called to Ensley, Alabama, by the deatho f his sister, Mrs. Bale Elliott. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Aug 1942 Reliance The Reliance community was shocked by the sudden death of Mrs. John Kovach on June 20. Sincerest sympathy is extended to the family. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 1, 1942 Former Resident Dies On Coast Mrs. Lillian Thomas Doyle, 49, who was born and spent her early life in Rock Springs, died Wednesday in a Hollywood hospital. She was a niece of Mrs. A.H. Anderson, 213 B street, and a daughter of the late Lloyd Thomas and Mrs. Thomas, who at one time lived in this city where Thomas operated a confectionery store. The family left here a number of years ago, going first to Salt Lake City and later to Hollywood. She was born here in June 1893. Mrs. Doyle is survived by a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Bobby. Her mother, Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, Hollywood, and two sisters, Mrs. R.E. Molenrich and Mrs. Allen McLean, both of Los Angeles, also survive her. The funeral will be held Saturday from the Reed mortuary in Los Angeles. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 4, 1942 PROMINENT SHEEPMAN DROWNS IN FORD LAKE NORTH OF BIG SANDY The body of Frank Avanzini, 41, prominent southwest Wyoming sheepman, was recovered Sunday from Ford lake in the Wind River mountains 10 miles north of Big Sandy opening. The party that recovered Avanzini’s body was composed of Avanzini’s brother-in-law, Adolph Magagna; John Anselmi, Deputy Sheriff Alphonse Bertagnolli, Stanley Crouse, Paul Juel, Bob Jack, Freddy Trujillo, a forest ranger, and four youths from Pinedale. Avanzini is said to have left his sheep camp Thursday alone on horseback to return to Big Sandy opening from where he sheep were ranging. The trail crosses Ford lake about 10 miles north of Big Sandy where it goes out into the lake on a ledge of rock that is submerged under shallow water. Water just off the ledge is about 18 feet deep. A herder, Freddy Trujillo, who was to have accompanied Avanzini, stayed on at the sheep camp with the understanding that he would be along in a few days after he had found some sheep that had strayed. Trujillo started Saturday and says that he saw the tracks of Avanzini’s horse and boot tracks where Avanzini had led his horse along a step descent to the ford of Ford lake. Trujillo crossed the lake to find Avanzini’s horse on the far side of the ford with saddle, blanket roll and slicker slipped under him. The horse evidently had gotten tangled up in this equipment and a saddle rope had been unable to move more than enough to graze after getting out of the lake. Investigation of the trail showed no boot marks coming from the ford on toward Big Sandy opening, and the herder concluded that Avanzini’s saddle must have slipped as he crossed the ford, allowing him to be thrown into the icy lake. Trujillo then rode on to Big Sandy and drove to Farson where he phoned to Rock Springs for a searching party. The searching party left Rock Springs late Saturday might and reached the lake Sunday morning. A boat was secured from the Leckie ranch which made it possible for the searchers to explore the deep water of the lake. The body was located, lying in 20 feet of water, by John Anselmi and Bob Jack and recovered with a grappling hood, and brought in to the Big Sandy camp on horseback and then in to Rock Springs. Friends of Avanzini said that he probably was not familiar with the fords and crossings of the area as his grazing rights there were just recently acquired. The Ford lake crossing is said by men familiar with the Wind River mountain trails to be particularly dangerous as the submerged trail is difficult to see in bad light. The trail to the lake descends so steeply that horsemen must dismount to go down it from either side. Horsemen cross the ford mounted but they usually sit with their feet up so as to keep water out of their boots. Searchers said it was possible that the strenuous ride along the steep trails could have loosened the girths of Avanzini’s saddle. The horse may have bucked or stumbled going through the ford, they said, and thrown a lot of strain on the cinch, allowing the saddle to slip beneath the horse in such a manner as to throw its rider into the deep water. Frank W. Avanzini was born in Diamondville, Wyo., January 9, 1901, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Florian Avanzini. At the time of his death he was 41 years, 6 months and 21 days old. His father was killed in an explosion of the Diamondville mine when he was six weeks old and he lost his mother when he was 12 years old. After attending school in Diamondville and Kemmerer he went to Colgate City, Okla., where he attended school, making his home there with an aunt, Mrs. Rachel Flor, between 1914 and 1917. He went to Superior in 1917 to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Rudolph Angeli, until he married Albena Subic of Rock Springs in April, 1931. In 1926 Avanzini went into the sheep business with the late John Bertagnolli. After disposing of his interests in the Bertagnolli firm he and three associates, Angelo Menghini, Louis Genetti and Alfonse Bertagnolli, all of Superior, purchased the John Larson sheep outfit and formed the White Acorn Sheep company in which he was active up until the time of his death. Besides his wife, Albena Subic Avanzini, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Rudolph Angeli of Superior and an aunt, Mrs. Rachel Flor of Colgate City, Okla. The body will be taken to the Avanzini home at 716 D street at 4:30 this afternoon. The rosary will be said there at 7 o’clock tonight by Rev. Albin Gnidovec and again by the Knights of Columbus at 8 o’clock. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the North Side Catholic church with Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Interment will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 4, 1942 Byrd Infant Dies In City Sunday Alfred Woodie Byrd, one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Byrd of Green River, died at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Byrd, 42 Fourth street, Rock Springs. The infant had been ill for several months. He is survived by his parents, one sister, Jeannine; his paternal grandparents and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Garardi of Norwood, Colo. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Rogan mortuary chapel with the Rev. Richard Emerson of the Assembly of God church officiating. Burial will be in Green River cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 5, 1942 McKINNON GIRL DIES TUESDAY AT HOSPITAL Zelma Vondella Brady, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Brady of McKinnon, died at Wyoming General hospital at 2:07 a.m. Tuesday. She had been a patient there since July 22. Besides her parents she is survived by six sisters and two brothers, all of McKinnon. The sisters are Bertha, Martha, Kaleta, Ruby, Venna and Norma Brady and the brothers are Leon and Eccles Brady. The funeral will be held from the McKinnon school house at 2 p.m. Friday. Bishop Aldon D. White of the L.D.S. church will officiate and burial will be in the McKinnon cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 6, 1942 DEATH CLAIMS WOMAN AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Mrs. John M. Creighton, 47, life-long resident of Rock Springs, died at 1:35 a.m. Wednesday at Wyoming General hospital. Mrs. Creighton was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage Monday evening at the home of her sister, Mrs. Grover Martin, 813 Ridge avenue, and was taken to the hospital that night. Within a few hours she lapsed into semi-consciousness and remained in that condition until her death. She had been in failing health for several months. Her daughter, Helen Creighton Edwards, who has been in Olympia, Wash., for a month with her husband, William S. Edwards, who is located there with the U.S. army, was notified late Monday night of her mother’s serous illness and left within a few hours for Rock Springs. She arrived in the city early this morning unaware that her mother had died. Edith Joynson Creighton was born in Rock Springs Aug. 2, 1895. She was a daughter of the late Joseph Joynson and the granddaughter [sic] of the late Mrs. Fannie Morgan, pioneer residents of the city. Twenty-seven years ago she married John M. Creighton, the ceremony taking place in Rock Springs. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Creighton is survived by two brothers, John Joynson of Los Angeles and William Joynson of Boulder, Colo., and two sisters, Mrs. Grover Martin of Rock Springs and Mrs. Anna Parton of Spokane, Wash. John M. Creighton died here Oct. 24, 1939. She was a member of Mountain Lily chapter No. 10, Order of Eastern Star, the Royal Neighbors and the Rebekahs. Funeral arrangements will be made this morning, following arrival of Mrs. Edwards. The body is at the Wildermuth mortuary pending funeral plans. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 6, 1942 John Edmunds Dies At Hospital Here John Edmunds, 74, resident of Rock Springs since 1928, died at Wyoming General hospital Tuesday. Edmunds came here from Pueblo, Colo., where he had been a miner, and worked as an orderly at the hospital until 1933 when he had to give up his work because of failing sight. He had resided in the infirmary for the last several years. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 7, 1942 CORONER HEARS TESTIMONY IN F. AVANZINI DROWNING Francis W. Tanner, coroner of Sublette county, held an investigation Wednesday night into the death of Frank W. Avanzini, Rock Springs sheepman who met death in Ford lake in the Wind River mountains, in Sublette county, Thursday at last week. The investigation was held at the Rogan mortuary in Rock Springs. Coroner Tanner took the sworn statements of men who discovered Avanzini’s body in Ford lake last Sunday, three days after he met his death. These included the depositions of Freddy Trujillo, sheepherder who discovered Avanzini’s horse at the ford of the lake Saturday and who spread the alarm of his disappearance; Alphonse Bertagnolli of Superior, Robert Jack and Adolph Magagna of Rock Springs, members of the posse that discovered Avanzini’s body in Ford lake and assisted in its recovery. Tanner also took depositions of physicians who examined the body after it was brought to Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 7, 1942 CREIGHTON SERVICE TO BE HELD SATURDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services for Mrs. John M. Creighton, well known Rock Springs woman who died Wednesday at Wyoming General hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Congregational church with Reverend Keenan Sheldon in charge. The body will be taken Friday afternoon to the Creighton home at 804 Connecticut avenue where it will remain until the funeral hour. Mrs. Creighton suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Monday night while at the home of her sister, Mrs. Grover Martin at 813 Ridge avenue. She was taken to Wyoming General hospital immediately but remained in a semi-conscious condition until her death at 1:35 a.m. Wednesday. She was born in Rock Springs August 2, 1895 and spent her entire life in this city. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Joynson, pioneer residents of the city, and was married to John M. Creighton here 27 hears ago. Mrs. Creighton is survived by her daughter, Mrs. William S. Edwards, who was in Olympia, Wash., when her mother was taken ill and who arrived here early yesterday. Her husband, William S. Edwards, who is stationed with the U.S. armed forces at Ft. Lewis, Wash., is expected to attend the funeral. Mrs. Creighton’s brothers, John Joynson of Los Angeles and William Joynson of Boulder, Colo., arrived in the city yesterday for the funeral. A sister, Mrs. Anna Parton, of Spokane, Wash., will not attend the services because of illness in her own family. Burial will be in the Creighton family plot in Mountain View cemetery. Mr. Creighton died here Oct. 24, 1939. The Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 11, 1942 SWEETWATER MINER DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED IN CUTTER Operation Fails To Save Life Of Accident Victim Ray Lee Haggerd, 48, an employee of the Gunn-Quealy Coal company, died at the Wyoming General hospital Monday afternoon at 4:20 from injuries received in an accident in the Sweetwater mine of Quealy, according to mine officials, at about 1:45 p.m. Haggerd was shoveling coal on a conveyor and stepped back to avoid being hit by a fall of coal from the mine face. As he stepped back his foot caught in the cutter bar chain of a coal undercutting machine. The chain dragged Haggerd’s foot and leg into the machine in such a manner that he couldn’t be extricated. The surgeon called to assist in getting Haggerd loose from the machine found it necessary to amputate the mangled leg and foot before Haggerd could be freed from the machine. The injured man was rushed to the hospital immediately after the operation but shock and loss of blood brought his death at 4:20 p.m. Mr. Haggerd is survived by his wife and a daughter who are now visiting relatives in Colorado, and a son, who is living in Denver. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 12, 1942 FRED RUSSOLD DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT AT LION COAL MINE Miner Pinned Under Debris Of Rock Fall Fred Russold, 54, died at Wyoming General hospital at ?:45 p.m. Tuesday of injuries incurred in the Lion Coal company’s Blairtown mine at about 10 o’clock that morning. Fall of rock pinned Russold beneath the debris. He suffered a punctured lung and other internal injuries. He was rushed to Wyoming General hospital shortly following the accident. This is the second fatal accident to occur here in the mines in as many days. Monday, Ray L. Haggerd died Monday following injuries received when he stepped too close to the cutting bar of a mining machine. Fredrick Russold had lived in Rock Springs for 38 years, coming here in 1904 from Leoben, Austria, where he was born June 9, 1888. Shortly after his arrival here he started working in the mines and worked for the Union Pacific from 104 to 1928 when he started working for the Lion Coal company, remaining in the employ of the latter company until his death. He was a member of the S.N.P.J. and American Fraternal Lodges, the Knights of Columbus and was a parishioner of the North Side Catholic church. He is survived by his wife, Mary Seiver Russold; four daughters and one son. The daughters are Mrs. John Tarris, Mrs. Ambrose Hamilton, Mrs. John Eusek and Kate Russold, all of Rock Springs. His only son, Fritz Russold, is stationed with the U.S. armed forces at Ft. Russell, Texas. He was advised yesterday of his father’s death and is expected to arrive in the city to attend the funeral. He also is survived by three brothers, Alfred Russold of Rock Springs, Edward of Jackson and John Russold of Benicia, Calif.; two grandsons and one granddaughter. The Russold home is at 1115 Clark street. Funeral plans are pending receipt of word from Fritz Russold but it is expected that they will be made today. Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 14, 1942 HAGGERD RITES TO BE SATURDAY Funeral services for Ray Lee Haggerd, 48, will be held in the Rogan Mortuary chapel at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Mr. Haggerd died at the Wyoming General hospital Monday of injuries received in an accident in the Sweetwater mine of the Gunn-Quealy Coal company. After the funeral ceremonies conducted by the Rev. E.E. Acheson, the body will be shipped to Longmont, Colo. for burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 15, 1942 QUEALY MINER FOUND DEAD FRIDAY IN ABANDONED HOUSE The lifeless body of Frank Tominc, 62, was discovered Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. hanging from the rafters of an abandoned house at Quealy by Dave Medskar, miner, who with other neighbors had joined in a search for Tominc. Tominc had been missing from his home at Quealy since 11 p.m. the evening before. Tominc, who was injured four years ago had been despondent over poor health and it is believed he took his own life. He left his home at about 11 o’clock Thursday night and when his absence was discovered by Mrs. Tominc she began searching for him. Their son, Frank, who returned to Quealy from Rock Springs shortly after he disappeared from the home, also was unable to learn his whereabouts. Several miners, when it became known that he had disappeared, assisted the family in the search, which resulted in Medskar discovering his body. Tominc was born in Austria in 1880 and came to this country in 1903. Four years later he located in Rock Springs and had lived at Quealy for the last 18 years. He is survived by his wife, Frances; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Yenko of Rock Springs, Sophia, who is in Washington, D.C., and Betty Tominc of Quealy; and two sons, Stanley and Frank Tominc of Quealy. Funeral services are pending receipt of word from Tominc’s daughter, Sophia, from Washington. The body is at the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 18, 1942 Month’s Illness Is Fatal to Reliance Woman Mrs. Barton Grosso Sr., 65, of Reliance died at 8:05 a.m. Sunday at Wyoming General hospital where she had been a patient since the previous Tuesday. She was a well known resident of Reliance, having lived in this community for 43 years. She was ill at her home for three weeks before she was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Grosso was born at Pavona, Italy June 9, 1877. She is survived by her husband, five sons and three daughters. The sons are Charles Grosso of Reliance, Andrew Bevola, James and Ernest of Rock Springs; the daughters are Mrs. Jack Korogi, Mrs. Dan Bonichi, and Elizabeth Grosso of Reliance. One sister, Mrs. John Bertolda, resides in Colgate, Okla. The funeral will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday from the South Side Catholic church with Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. The body will be taken to the James Grosso home at 207 Liberty street this afternoon, where the rosary will be said at 7:30 this evening. The Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 18, 1942 FATHER OF R.S. WOMAN DIES IN KEMMERER Frank Colletti, 78, of Kemmerer, father of Mrs. Jim Bertino of Rock Springs, died Sunday at the Kemmerer hospital after a short illness. Colletti, who was born Dec. 16, 1864 in Italy, had been a resident of Wyoming for 50 years and formerly lived in Rock Springs. He is survived by his wife, Mary, of Kemmerer, four sons, John of Kimberly, Nev., Don of Sidney, Neb., Joe of Kemmerer and Pete of Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Bertino of Rock Springs, Mrs. Harry Keller of Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Don Rolando of Helper, Utah. Survivors also include seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday in Kemmerer. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 19, 1942 Coletti Funeral To Be Held Today In Kemmerer KEMMERER, Aug. 18 (Special)—The funeral of Frank Coletti, who died Sunday at the L.C.M. hospital, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Lincoln mortuary chapel. Coletti was born in Italy in 1864 and went to Rock Springs in 1893. The family has resided in Kemmerer since 1900. Survivors are his widow, three daughters, Mrs. James Bertini of Rock Springs, Mrs. Don Rolando of Helper, Utah, and Mrs. Harry Keller of Portland, and four sons, John and Joe of Kemmerer, Dominic of Sydney, Neb., and Pete of Salt Lake City, and eight grandchildren. Coletti has been active and well until recently. Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 21, 1942 Resident Of City 44 Years, Dies At Age Of 85 John Hallingren, 85, died at Wyoming General hospital shortly after midnight Thursday. He had been a patient at the hospital for nearly two years. Mr. Hallingren had lived in Rock Springs for 44 years. At one time he was associated in business here with the late Carl Johnson and later operated a poultry farm that was located in the Hillside addition before that section of the city was built up as it is today. He was born in Sweden March 8, 1859. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. A niece, Mrs. Robert Gottschalk, who lives in Laramie, and a nephew, Arthur Anderson, in Rawlins, have been notified of his death. Funeral arrangements will be made upon receipt of word from Mrs. Gottschalk and Anderson. --- Green River Star, Aug 21, 1942 Mrs. L. Calvert Succumbs In Denver Mrs. Lillie J. Calvert, former resident of Green River, died at her home in Denver, Colo., Sunday, August 16. Mrs. Calvert is survived by a son, James W. Calvert and is a sister of Harry I. Willett of Alton, Ill.; James L. Willett of University City, Mo.; Minnie and Charles I. Willett of Denver, Colo. Burial rites were performed at the Crown Hill cemetery, Wednesday, August 19, at 10 a.m. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 25, 1942 Greeley Man Dies On Train Enroute From California The body of H.B. Fruit of Greeley, Colo. was removed from Union Pacific train No. 38, eastbound Pony Express, due in Rock Springs at 12:06 a.m. Sunday. Fruit died on the train after it pulled out of Evanston Saturday night, presumably of a heart attack. Coroner J. Warden Opie’s office is in contact with Fruit’s relatives in Greeley and it is expected that instructions to ship the body will be received here this morning. The coroner’s office has been advised that Fruit was en route from Los Angeles to Greeley. He was about 50 years old. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 27, 1942 PINEDALE YOUTH TO BE BURIED HERE FRIDAY Funeral services for Edward Donald Parker Jr., five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker of Pinedale, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the home of his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Kelly, at No. Six. The body will be removed from the Rogan mortuary to the Kelly home at 10 a.m. Friday. Rev. E.E. Acheson of the Baptist church will officiate. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery, this city. The child died Tuesday at Wyoming General hospital where he had been a patient since last Saturday. Besides his parents and grandparents he is survived by a brother, Joseph, and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Parker. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 28, 1942 Prominent Green River Resident Dies Thursday E.E. Peters, 81, prominent Sweetwater county pioneer resident, died at 1 p.m. Thursday at his home at 95 East Second North street in Green River. He suffered a paralytic stroke several weeks ago from which he failed to rally. Mr. Peters had lived in Green River for 55 years, going there in 1887 as an employee of the Union Pacific railroad. Later he entered the contracting business which he followed for a number of years. Several years ago he established the Peters Garage which he operated until five or six years ago. He was active in civic and political affairs and served Sweetwater county as commissioner for several terms a number of years ago. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and at the time of his death was the oldest Mason in Sweetwater county and one of the oldest in the state. He belonged to the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templar. Elmer E. Peters was born April 4, 1861 at Arcadia, Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Jane Peters; two sons, Kenneth of Green River and Ernest Peters of Omaha, and one daughter, Edith Peters, a teacher in the Green River high school. Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Masonic temple at Green River. Mrs. Sadie Buckles will read the Christian Science burial service. The body will lie in state in the temple from 10 a.m. Saturday until service time. The services and interment are in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary. --- Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 30, 1942 E. E. Peters GREEN RIVER, Wyo. -- Funeral services for E. E. Peters, 81, political and civic leader in Sweetwater county for a half century, who died in his home here Thursday afternoon, were conducted Saturday in the Masonic temple. Burial was in Riverview cemetery, under direction of Wildermuth mortuary of Rock Springs. He had lived in Green River since 1887, when he came to work for the Union Pacific railroad. In 1890 he established a lumber yard and general contracting business, and in 1913 established the city's first garage, Peters Motor company, operating until recently. During his 55 years here, he served in various public capacities, including 18 years as city councilman eight years as county commissioner, and commissioner one term on the local school board. Deeply interested in the Masonic orders, he held membership in Mount Moriah lodge No. 6, A F & A M, the R A M and Knights Templar, as well as in Mystic chapter No. 8, OES, of which he was past patron. He was born April 4, 1861 a son of Jacob and Jane Peters. In 1894, at Omaha, he married Sarah J. Hutton, who survives, with two sons and a daughter, Ernest Peters of Omaha, and Kenneth and Edith Peters of Green River. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Sep 1942 July Injuries VICTOR THIVAL, American, age 47, married, rope rider, Section 2, Winton No. 1 Mine. FATAL. The motorman, upon instructions of the unit foreman, reported brakes on his locomotive not working properly. On the way to this entry, the repairman had made some repairs to a locomotive and a fan in the entry above. Upon arriving at the face of the entry, the third trip was nearly loaded, two previous trips having been taken to the slope parting with no apparent trouble. The repairman examined the motor and found that the threads on the fixed nut or thread bar were stripped and the locomotive had little braking power. Since the repairman did not have the necessary parts to make repairs, it was decided to take this third trip to the slope parting. A skid was placed under two wheels of one car and a brake set on another one. On the way to the parting the trolley pole came off and the motor gathered more speed than usual. At the parting the trip hit one standing load and pushed it against a standing empty slope trip where it derailed, going against the far side rib of the slope. The two-car trip at the slope was standing against the empties on the high side track and extended past the frog on the slope. The rope rider had been waiting there for coal about twenty-five minutes and just where he was when the trip came out is not known. His body was found pinned between the loaded car and the rib. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Sep 1942 Reliance Mr. and Mrs. Guy Thomas and family left for Illinois upon receiving word of the death of Mr. Thomas’s mother. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 1, 1942 Californian Dies On U.P. Train Near Evanston EVANSTON, Aug. 31 (Special)—Mrs. Jerome Ganoung, 71, of Sacramento, Calif., died on a Union Pacific train Friday night between Ogden and Evanston, en route to St. Louis. She was accompanied by her husband. The remains were shipped to St. Louis for burial by the Ryman mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 1, 1942 Resident of City 57 Years Dies Here Sunday Mrs. Saima Nelson, 74, a resident of Rock Springs for 57 years, died suddenly of a heart attack at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at her home at 826 Goble. She had complained of not feeling well since Thursday but at no time was her condition thought to be serious. Mrs. Nelson’s daughter, Mrs. Paul Karppi, a former resident of this city, came to Rock Springs Saturday when advised of her mother’s illness and was with her at the time of her death. Mrs. Nelson was born in Finland March 25, 1868. She was married there and came to this country, locating in Rock Springs after remaining for a short time in Boston. She was the mother of ten children, eight of whom and her husband preceded her in death. One son, Gus, was killed in the Little Megeath mine here in 1931 and another son, John, was killed at the Kemmerer Coal company’s sawmill, near Kemmerer, in 1916. Her husband was killed in 1907 in the old No. 3 mine here. Those who survive her are one son, Elmer, who lives in San Francisco, and her daughter, Mrs. Karppi; and three grandchildren, William, Betty and Margaret Karppi. Her grandson, William, made his home here with her last winter and attended the Rock Springs high school, and her granddaughter, Betty, had planned to remain with her this term to attend the city high school. Mrs. Nelson spent two months in California this summer, returning to Rock Springs early in August. Funeral arrangements are pending receipt of word from her son in San Francisco, but it is expected that they will be made Tuesday. The body is at the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 2, 1942 Brother Of William Iredale Dies John (Jack) Iredale, 70, former resident of Rock Springs, died Friday in Washington, D.C., where he has lived for over 30 years. He is survived by his wife and several sons and daughters, a brother, William Iredale, of this city and two sisters living in Utah. Jack Iredale was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Iredale Sr., pioneer residents of Rock Springs. His father was resident engineer for the Union Pacific Coal company in the early days. Iredale was employed by the U.S. government in San Francisco, at the time of the earthquake in 1906, and was transferred sometime after that to Washington. William Iredale left Saturday night for Washington, D.C. The funeral arrangements await the arrival of relatives. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 3, 1942 NELSON FUNERAL TO BE HELD AT 9:45 SUNDAY The funeral of Mrs. Saima Nelson, resident of the city for 57 years, who died of a heart attack Sunday night at her home at 826 Gobel street, will be held at 9:45 a.m. Sunday from the Finnish church on Second street. Rev. John E. Lutz of the Evangelical Lutheran church will officiate, followed by interment in Mountain View cemetery. The body will be taken to the church at 9 o’clock that morning where friends of the family may call. Before that hour it will remain at the Rogan mortuary chapel. Mrs. Nelson was 74 years old and was a native of Finland. She and her husband came to Rock Springs shortly following their marriage in Finland. She is survived by a son, Elmer Nelson, of San Francisco and a daughter, Mrs. Paul Karppi, of Provo, Utah. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 3, 1942 William Griffith Dies in Cheyenne Veterans Hospital William Griffiths, 54, of Rock Springs died Tuesday night at the U.S. veterans hospital in Cheyenne. He had been afflicted with heart trouble for several years. Griffiths returned to the Cheyenne hospital two weeks ago after he had spent a month there last fall. At the time of his death he was planning to leave within a short time for Washington, D.C., to make his home with his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Carr, who two weeks ago moved there from Rock Springs. Griffiths was a World War I veteran. As a boy he worked in the old Rock Springs First National bank. After he returned to civilian life following the first World war he worked in the offices of the Union Pacific Coal company until his health failed him and he retired to live with his brothers at the Griffiths residence here. He was born in Rock Springs March 7, 1888. Griffiths is survived by one sister, Mrs. W.G. Carr, and three brothers, Morgan and Evan of Rock Springs and Emlyn who is in the U.S. army. Funeral arrangements are pending word from Mrs. Carr in Washington and Emlyn Griffiths who has been stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indiana but who was transferred from there late last week and with whom contact had not been established late last night. The body will arrive in Rock Springs tonight where it will be received by the Wildermuth mortuary, pending burial arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 3, 1942 FORMER RESIDENT OF CITY DIES IN McCAMMON Mrs. Jessie Riddle Edwards, 61, an early day resident of Rock Springs, died Tuesday at her home in McCammon, Idaho, following a short illness. She was the wife of Walter Edwards of McCammon whom she married here Jan. 6, 1904. Mrs. Edwards was born June 13, 1881 in Newton Grange, Scotland, daughter of Heriot and Mary Duncan Riddle, who came to Rock Springs to live when she was a young woman. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Brixin Price of McCammon and Mrs. Harvey Price of Bountiful, Utah; a brother, A.R. Riddle of McCammon and a sister, Mrs. Matt McCourt of Salt Lake City. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 4, 1942 Mrs. Robert Long Dies Tuesday in Cokeville Mrs. Robert Long of Rock Springs died Tuesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.C. Rentfro, in Cokeville. She had been ill for several months. The Long family had lived here for about three years. The funeral and burial will be in Cokeville. Mrs. Long left Rock Springs ten days ago to go to California in hopes that a lower climate would benefit her. Enroute she stopped in Cokeville and within a few days became unable to continue on the trip. Gladys Rentfro Long was born in Kansas and went with her parents to Cokeville in 1927. She is survived by her husband, two children, Gary and Joyce; her parents; three sisters, Mrs. Lee Smith and Mrs. Ed. Brown, whose homes are in Nevada, and Mrs. Pete Lindsey of Ebbingham, Kans., all of whom went to Cokeville when advised of her illness; and two brothers, George Rentfro of Cokeville and James of Washington, D.C. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 4, 1942 Griffiths Rites To Be Held Here Sunday The funeral of William Griffiths, Rock Springs man who died at the U.S. Veteran’s hospital in Cheyenne Tuesday night, will be held from the Masonic Temple at 2 p.m. Sunday. The body arrived in Rock Springs last night where it was received by the Wildermuth mortuary which will be in charge of funeral directions. Griffith’s sister, Mrs. W.G. Carr, who left Rock Springs to reside in Washington, D.C. two weeks ago will arrive early Saturday to attend the funeral. A brother, Emlyn Griffiths, who is in an army camp in the east, is expected to arrive about the same time for the service. Griffiths was born and reared in Rock Springs. He was 54 years old and had served in World War I. A heart condition with which he had been afflicted for several years caused his death. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Griffiths, pioneer residents of Rock Springs. --- Green River Star, Sep 4, 1942 Funeral Rites Held For E. E. Peters Funeral services were held last Saturday, September 29, 2 p. m. at the Masonic Temple, for Elmer E. Peters, 81, prominent Green River resident and pioneer of Sweetwater county, who died at his home at 1 p. m., Thursday, August 25. Mr. Peters became ill over three weeks ago and death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. Pallbearers at the funeral were: C. E. Jensen, James Thomsen, Thomas Rogers, James Chrisman, Thomas Jones and Earl Hall. The Knight Templar escort was composed of John Riddle, J. L. Smith, Joe Desmond, William Mortimer, Hans Larsen and William Rogers. The body was laid to rest in the Riverview cemetery. Funeral services and arrangements were under the direction of the Wildermuth mortuary. Mr. Peters figured prominently in connection with public affairs in Green River and Sweetwater county, having served for 18 years on the town council and as county commissioner for Sweetwater county for eight years. He also served one term on the Green River school board. Mr. Peters had lived in Green River since 1887, a period of 55 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Hutton Peters; his two sons, Ernest of Omaha, and Kenneth of Green River; and his daughter, Miss Edith Peters of Green River; and three grandchildren. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 Winton Resident For 21 Years Dies Wednesday Louis Ruiz, 50, of Winton died at 1:23 p.m. Wednesday at Wyoming General hospital. He had been ill for the last 18 months at his home at Superior and was brought to the hospital Tuesday. Ruiz went to Winton in 1921 and was employed by the Union Pacific Coal company there continuously until he was taken ill. He was born in Lapaz, Mexico June 15, 1892 and is survived by his wife and nine children. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 FUNERAL RITES FOR BOULDER RESIDENT TODAY Thomas King, 82, pioneer rancher of the Boulder section, died at his home there early Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at the Boulder schoolhouse this afternoon followed by interment in the Boulder cemetery. He is survived by his wife, five daughters and one son. The daughters are Mrs. Ruth McLaughlin of Durango, Colo., Mrs. Ethel McKee of Challis, Idaho, Mrs. Florence Bertram of Big Piney, Mrs. Edith Jensen and Mrs. Frances Sheldon of Boulder. His son is James King of Boulder. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 Wife of John L. Lewis Succumbs United Mine Workers of America were shocked yesterday to receive word of the death of Mrs. John L. Lewis, wife of UMWA President Lewis. Alfred Carey, district 22 president, and Tony Radalj, international board member of UMWA, left Rock Springs Wednesday night to attend the funeral in Springfield, Ill., Saturday. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 Joe Hickerson Dies Suddenly Early Wednesday Joseph Hickerson, 60, well known Rock Springs resident for 42 years, died at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Wyoming General hospital. He underwent an operation at the hospital Tuesday morning and 16 hours later suffered a heart attack. William Joseph Hickerson was born in Silex. Mo., March 29, 1882. As a young man he located in Rock Springs and was active in civil affairs of the community for many years, serving the city as a council member and the county as assessor several years ago. For the last four months he has been employed by the city as a trickster. Prior tot hat time he was employed by the Guy Rife ranching interests for several months. He is survived by his wife Lydia Hickerson; two sons, Samuel and Richard Hickerson, and two daughters, Mrs. Guy Scott and Mrs. William Welsh, all of Rock Springs. Three sisters, Mrs. Pete Purman, of Laramie, Mrs. Carl Nelson of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Mrs. Ella Krone, who resides in Texas, and one brother, Lafe Hickerson of Burlingame, Kans., also survive. He had four grandsons and five granddaughters. Hickerson was a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles, aerie 151 and B.P.O. Elks No. 624. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 Father of R.S. Man Dies Tuesday In Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. John J. Brueggermann were called to Mount Vernon, Ind., Tuesday night because of the death of Brueggemann’s father, George J. Brueggemann, 83, that day in Oklahoma City, Okla. His body will be shipped to Mount Vernon, old home of the Brueggemann family, for burial Friday. The senior Brueggemann was making his home with his daughter, Mrs. William Lynn, at Lindsey, Okla., near Oklahoma City. He had been in failing health for several months. Besides Mrs. Lynn and his son here, he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. John Brown of Lorraine, Ohio. John J. Brueggemann visited his father last spring. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 10, 1942 Funeral Services For Former R.S. Woman Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Woods, 45, of Casper, former Rock Springs resident, were held in Casper Tuesday. Mrs. Woods died at Memorial hospital in Casper Saturday night following a long illness. She and her family left Rock Springs for Casper five years ago after residing here for several years where Woods was a carpenter. She is survived by her husband, one son, Frank Jr.; one daughter, Emma; one sister, Mrs. Rose Gilmore of Sheridan; two brothers, Charles Hoff of Sheridan and Joseph A. Hoff of Rock Springs. Her mother, Mrs. Catherine Hoff of Casper, also survives. One son, George, died while the family lived in Rock Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff of this city attended the funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 11, 1942 Ruiz Funeral To Be Held Sunday The funeral of Louis L. Ruiz, 50, of Winton, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday from the South Side Catholic church with Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery. The rosary will be said at the Rogan mortuary chapel at 8 p.m. Saturday. Ruiz died at Wyoming General hospital shortly after noon Wednesday following an 18 months illness. He was taken to the hospital Tuesday. He had lived at Winton since 1921 where he was employed by the Union Pacific Coal company. Surviving are his wife, Mary; four sons, Louis Jr., Frank, Ralph and Tony, of Winton; six daughters, Mrs. John Mullix of Green River, Liza, Adela, Gloria, Mary and Trinidad Ruiz, all of Winton. Ruiz was a native of Las Pas, Lower California. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 11, 1942 Prominent Green River Woman Dies Yesterday Mrs. Marie Hedwig Evers, 79, widow of Charles Evers, died at 4:15 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the home of her son William Evers in Green River. She had been in poor health for several months. She was born in Uphusem, Germany, November 9, 1862 and had made her home at 486 Blake street in Green River for many years. Survivors are four sons, August, William, John and Carl Evers of Green River; two brothers, Fred Peterson and Broder Boysen of Dennison, Iowa. The body, accompanied by August Evers, will be taken to her old home in Dennison and funeral services will be held there. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dennison cemetery. Other members of the family will drive to Iowa for the funeral. --- Green River Star, Sep 11, 1942 Maria Evers Passes Away Here Marie Hedwig Evers, 80, died at her home here at approximately 1 p. m. Thursday afternoon, September 10, 1942. Her death was due to natural causes, it was reported. Marie Evers was born in Germany on November 9, 1862. She came to America some sixty years ago and settled in Dennison, Iowa. There she met and married Charles Evers, who died in 1937. She is survived by five sons who were born and raised in Dennison, Iowa. The sons are: August, William, Jack and Carl Evers, who now reside in Green River. Mrs. Evers is also survived by two brothers, Fred Petersen and Broden Boysen of Dennison, Iowa, and a number of grandchildren. Last year Mrs. Evers' sons built her a home in Green River and she came here to live near her family, November 1, 1941. She took ill about ten days previous to her passing and was under the constant care of her family until the time of her death. Funeral rites will be held in Dennison, Iowa, and as yet no definite dates or plans have been made concerning interment and funeral services. The body is in charge of the Rogan Mortuary, Rock Springs. It was learned that August Evers will accompany the body of his mother to Iowa by train, leaving here some time Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William Evers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Evers will drive to Dennison, Iowa, to attend the funeral services there. They will also leave some time Saturday. --- Green River Star, Sep 11, 1942 Green River Woman Found Dead Ruth Marie Dudley, wife of N. F. Dudley of Green River, was found dead at the wheel of her car on the Big Island road about five miles from here at approximately 8 a. m. Thursday morning, it was disclosed by members of her family. No statement as to the direct cause of Mrs. Dudley's death has been issued at the present time, and the body is being held at the Rogan Mortuary, Rock Springs, pending an inquest. Ruth Marie Dudley was born in Axtell, Kan., April 20, 1901, and she came to Green River in 1920. It was learned that she had been ill for the past three years following a nervous breakdown. Mrs. Dudley is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McCleary of Green River. She married N. F. Dudley in June of 1940. It was further learned that Ruth Dudley I was a talented musician, and her popularity in musical and social circles here was great. Survivors include: her husband, N. F. Dudley; and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John MeCleary; two brothers, Roy McCleary of Oregon and-Ralph "Mickey" McCleary of Green River. She is also survived by her daughter of a former marriage, Miss Connie McDonald. Funeral services will be held at the Congregational church, Sunday, September 13, at 9 a. m., with Rev. James B. Allen officiating. The funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogan Mortuary, Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 15, 1942 Eden Valley Man Dies Monday of Shock and Burns Wayne Fiscus, 32, of Farson, Eden Valley farmer and employee of the Woodward Construction company died about 8 o’clock Monday evening from severe burns and other injuries received when the truck in which he was riding ran off the road, rolled over a 150 foot embankment and caught fire. The drive and occupants of a car came upon the scene of the accident immediately and dragged Mr. Fiscus from the blazing truck and took him at once to the hospital. Fiscus, who was greatly worried over a sick child in the hospital here, was returning from his farm in Farson where he drove earlier in the evening to do the chores. It is reported that his worry over the child combined with the loss of sleep caused such extreme fatigue that he became drowsy for a moment and lost control of the car. Upon reaching the hospital at midnight Sunday, he jumped out of the car, in spite of his severe injuries and rushed into the hospital to see how the child was getting along. Fiscus was at once put to bed and treated for shock, bruises and burns. He is survived by his wife, Clarabelle, several children, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Fiscus of Farson; three sisters and a brother. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 16, 1942 Fiscus Funeral To Be Held at Farson Wednesday Funeral services for Wayne Harold Fiscus, 31, of Farson, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Farson Community Hall. Burial will be in the Farson cemetery. Fiscus died Monday, 6:35 p.m. at the Wyoming General hospital of burns he incurred at midnight on Sunday when the truck which he was driving rolled over a 150-foot embankment and caught fire. The accident occurred 22 miles north of Rock Springs. Fiscus was brought to Wyoming General hospital for treatment but died there 24 hours later. Wayne Harold Fiscus was born March 7, 1911 at Alma, Nebraska. He had lived in Farson all his life. He is survived by his wife, Clarabelle, one son, Kenneth Lloyd, and two daughters, Sharon Ann and Beth Lynn; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Fiscus; three sisters, Mrs. Zeb Stout, Mrs. Roe Pennock, both of Farson and Mrs. George Smith of Rock Springs, and two brothers, Sheldon and Lloyd, both of Farson. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 17, 1942 Pioneer Sheepman Dies Wednesday At Hospital Here David Smail, 69, brother of Andrew Smail of Eden and an early day sheepman of Seetwater county, died at Wyoming General hospital at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday where he had been a patient since Aug. 7. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Garden Church of Eden with Rev. Keenan Sheldon of the Rock Springs Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in the Farson cemetery. Smail was born June 6, 1873 in Pechles, Scotland. He first came to Wyoming in 1894 and was employed by the Kinney Sheep company that had its headquarters in Rock Springs. Later he was employed by the Jim Dickie Sheep company. In 1901 he was severely burned in an explosion at Big Sandy and remained a patient at Wyoming General hospital for seven months. After he was able to travel he returned to Scotland for two years, returning to Sweetwater county in 1903 when he went into the sheep business with his brother, Andrew. In 1906 he sold his interest and returned to Scotland where he lived until 1920. In that year he accepted employment with the Dickie Sheep company which had located in Hot Springs county, near Thermopolis. He remained in Hot Springs county until last May when, because of illness, he went to Eden to make his home with his brother. Besides his brother he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Fannie Wood, who resides in Haddington, Scotland. The body is at the Wildermuth Funeral home until Saturday when it will be taken to Eden. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Missing Casper Children Found Dead In Water CASPER, Sept. 18 (UP)-- The search for seven-year-old Patty Adcock and her brother, Jimmy, nine, has come to a tragic end with discovery of the children's bodies in a deep pit of water near the Platte river in Casper. Police authorities had expressed fear the children had been kidnapped and a statewide search for them was underway when a party of townspeople, equipped with grappling hooks, pulled the bodies of the brother and sister from the deep water. The father and 12-year-old brother of the children were members of the party which found them. Patty was fully clothed except that her shoes were missing. Police deducted that she fell in the pit while wading, and that Jimmy, who also was fully clothed, had jumped in to save her. Relatives said the two children had been inseparable companions. An intensive search of northern Wyoming and eastern Montana had been started after police linked the disappearance of the two children with the robbery of a filling station and theft of a car within two blocks of the Adcock home. Both crimes occurred last Tuesday afternoon the last time the children had been seen as they left for school. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Child Is Killed By Train East Of Rock Springs Vera Bell Davin, 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Davin, was struck and instantly killed by Union Pacific local mixed passenger and mail train No. 67, westbound, about 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, near the Davin house, at Red Desert, where Davin, section worker for the Union Pacific railroad, lives. Mr. and Mrs. Davin were preparing to take a trip to Wamsutter and the little girl was playing in the yard. The horrified mother looked out of the window just in time to see the child on or near the track and saw the little body tossed into the air and light about five feet from the point of impact. The injury was on the side of the child's head. The mother is prostrate from the shock of seeing the child killed and is under medical care. Vera Bell was born in Wauneeta, Kan., March 21, 1941, and when her own mother died shortly after her birth, she was adopted by the Davins. The body will be taken to Rawlins and shipped to Wauneeta, Kan., for burial. No inquest of the accident was held. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Funeral services for Betty Rae Sims, who died at the family home Wednesday following an extended illness, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday instead of 2 p.m. as was formerly announced. The service will be conducted from the Evanston first L. D. S. chapel by Bishop Wilford M. Price of the Evanston second ward. Interment will be in the City cemetery with the Durnford mortuary in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Ernest John Butterfield, two-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Butterfield of Sacramento and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewer of Evanston, died Wednesday in Sacramento, according to word received here. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Resident Here 14 Months Dies Friday Edward A. Goyette, 31, an employee of the Union Pacifc Coal company at Reliance for the last 14 months, died at Wyoming General hospital at 5:17 a.m. Friday. He had been a patient there for ten days. He was born in Aurora, Kan., and before coming to Rock Springs he was employed as a truck driver at Thermopolis. Goyette is survived by his wife and three sons, Duane Edward, Donald Dean and Darald Gene. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Goyette, and eight sisters and six brothers also survive. The body will be shipped to Aurora, Kan., where his parents reside, for interment. The rosary will be said at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Rogan mortuary chapel. The family resided at 1008 McCarty street, Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 19, 1942 Father Of R.S. Woman Dies Here Friday Henry Luther Durst, 77, father of Mrs. W. E. Martin of 90 Pine street, died Friday at Wyoming General hospital where he had been a patient for ten days. He had lived in Rock Springs for the last two years. Durst was a retired railroad man and was a native of Osawatomic, Kan. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Martin; three grandchildren, Mrs. Joe Stulky, Tacoma, Wash,; W. E. Martin Jr., Rawlins, and Betty Martin, Rock Springs. He also is survived by three great grandchildren. The body, accompanied by members of the Martin family, will be shipped Sunday by the Rogan mortuary to Rawlins for burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 22, 1942 NEWS OF EDEN VALLEY Funeral services for Wayne Fiscus, who died Monday at Wyoming General hospital, were held at the community hall Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. Mrs. H. E. Buckles of Reliance, conducted the service. Pallbearers were Clifford Sims, Vern VanMatre, Floyd Heary, Albert McMurry, Louis McNalley and Mr. Greene. Burial was in the Farson cemetery. --- Green River Star, Sep 23, 1942 Howard Simpson Passes Away Here Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon, September 25, at the Congregational church, 2 p. m., for Howard B. Simpson, 66, retired railroad man who was found dead at his home early Wednesday morning of this week. Rev. James B. Allan officiated at the service. It is believed that Mr. Simpson's death was caused by a heart attack in his sleep sometime in the night following a fainting spell that occurred while he was attending the rodeo Sunday. He had been under the care of Salt Lake doctors for the past year, it was learned. Mr. Simpson, a retired painter for the Union Pacific, was born in Albany, Ill., in 1876. He came to Green River in 1923 and was well known here. His wife having died in 1938, leaving him a widower during his last years. Mr. Simpson was at one time a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, and was a veteran gardener having a hobby for growing different varieties of flowers. He was also a fish and game enthusiast, going with his rod or gun on every opportunity since his retirement from active duty. He is survived by one son, Herbert, B. Simpson of Salt Lake City, Utah, who has lived there for the past 12 years and who now is the executive director of the Utah Traffic council. Also surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. Harry L. Rowland of Erie, III., and Mrs. Frank Brown of Morrison, Ill. The sister of his wife, Mrs. Pearle Boyd, who is well known in Green River, arrived here Thursday night from Omaha. Following the funeral services his son, Herbert, accompanied the body to Albany, Ill., for burial. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Wildermuth mortuary, Rock Springs --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 24, 1942 McKinnon Rancher Dies; Funeral To Be Saturday Eli Slagowski, 62, a rancher of the McKinnon district, died at Wyoming General hospital late Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at McKinnon at 2 p.m. Saturday. The body will be taken there early Saturday by the Rogan mortuary. Slagowski is survived by six sons and daughters. The sons are James, who is at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Eugene, who is at Pope Field, N.C.; Doyle of Manila, Floyd of Palice, Nev. and Vivan and Leo of McKinnon. The daughters are Lea of Green River, Mrs. Della Harris of McKinnon and Mrs. Christina Behunin of Burtfork. Two brothers, Ben Slagowski of Mountain View and John of Lyman, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Brough of Lyman also survive. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 25, 1942 Mrs. Giovale Dies Here Suddenly Mrs. John Giovale, 62, well known Rock Springs resident, died suddenly early Thursday evening at her home, 107 Noble Drive. She had been downtown during the day on a shopping trip. Her death came as a shock to members of her family and friends. Mrs. Luigia Giovale was born in March 1880 in Selvaggio, Giaveno, Italy, and came to the United States in 1912. She has lived in Rock Springs for 30 years. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Joseph Giovale of Rock Springs; Captain Silvo Giovale, former Reliance physician, who is stationed with the army in New York; a daughter, Mrs. Pierina Morrow of Lake Arrowhead, California; four grandchildren, William and John Morrow, Joseph GIovale Jr., and Judith Ann Giovale. Funeral arrangements are awaiting word from Capt. Giovale and Mrs. Morrow. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 25, 1942 Green River Man Die Wednesday Of Heart Attack Howard S. Simpson, 66, resident of Green River for 20 years, was found dead in bed at his home there Wednesday. His body was discovered by Bob O’Melia, a roomer at the Simpson home, about 9:30 a.m. Simpson was last seen Tuesday night when he was in the downtown section of Green River. Investigation revealed that he had died of a heart attack. He had suffered from a bad heart condition for several years which caused his retirement from active work a year ago. He had been a painter for the Union Pacific railroad. Simpson is survived by a son, Herb Simpson of Salt Lake City, who went to Green River when advised of his death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Congregational church in Green River with Rev. James B. Allen officiating. The Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 25, 1942 Colored Woman Dies At Hanna HANNA, Sept. 25 (Special)—Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Johnson, 58, wife of Eli Johnson, colored residents of Hanna for 38 years, were held at St. John’s church Tuesday with Rev. Henry H. Heard officiating. Mrs. Johnson died Saturday. She was born in Shelbendy, Mo., May 11, 1884. She went to Hanna a number of years ago where she met and married Johnson June 18, 1906. She had been in ill health for several months and was taken to the hospital Thursday of last week. Mrs. Johnson was a woman highly respected by all who knew her and Hanna received the report of her death with regrets. Pallbearers at the funeral were James Anderson, Emmett Baine, Richard Hunt, Oscar Owens, Royal Robinson and Amos Rumer. She was buried in the Hanna cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 29, 1942 Giovale Services To Be Held Today Funeral services for Mrs. John Giovale will be held at 9:30 this morning at the South Side Catholic church. The Rev. S.A. Welsh will officiate. Mrs. Giovale, a resident of Rock Springs for 30 years, died suddenly Thursday evening at her home, 107 Dewar drive. Pallbearers will be Frank Bergamo, C. Salvatico, James Silva, Oreste Frazzini, Ettore Allias and August Sarcletti. The Rogan mortuary is in charge of the funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 29, 1942 Body of Mining Accident Victim Sent to Illinois The body of John Albert Burnett, 21, who died at 4:30 Saturday morning from injuries received in a mine accident at the Reliance mine on September 4, was shipped Saturday evening to Marissa, Ill., for burial. The wife and the father accompanied the body to Illinois. Burnett was born in Pinckneyville, Ill., April 5, 1921. He had lived in Rock Springs for the last five months. Besides his wife and father Burnett is survived by several brothers. The Wildermuth mortuary was in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 29, 1942 Funeral Services For Meeks Infant At Mountain View Funeral services for baby Louise Meeks, 2 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Meeks of Green River, who died Monday at the Wyoming General hospital, will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at Mountain View. The body will be taken there by the Rogan Mortuary. Baby Louse was born July 16, 1942. She had been ill for two weeks with pneumonia. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Sep 29, 1942 Funeral Services For Boulder Child To Be Held Today Funeral services for Lee Andrew Priebe, seven month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Priebe of Boulder, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday evening after a two months illness, will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Boulder school house. The Rev. Keenan Sheldon will officiate. Lee Andrew, who was born February 5, 1942, is survived by his parents, a sister, Patsy, and a brother, Kenneth. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Tanner mortuary in Pinedale. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 1, 1942 Traveler Dies In General Hospital Kenneth Ray Keens, 25, Alahambra, Calif., died Wednesday evening at the Wyoming General hospital where he underwent an operation from which he failed to recover. Keens was taken off of the east bound train Saturday evening suffering from a ruptured appendix and taken to the hospital where an emergency operation was performed. Kenneth Ray Keens was born in Elizabeth, Ind., on May 14, 1917 and was employed by the Harlow Aircraft at Alahambra. He and his wife were en route to Grand Island, Neb., to spend a vacation with relatives. His wife, Mrs. Agnes Keens will accompany the body to Grand Island for burial. The Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. --- Green River Star, Oct 2, 1942 Funeral Held For William Coutts Victim Of Hunting Trip Funeral services for William D. Coutts, 37, cashier for the Union Pacific railroad here, were held Wednesday afternoon at 1 p. m. from the Masonic Temple. Following the funeral the body was taken to Evanston for burial and graveside services conducted there by the Evanston Masonic lodge at 4 p. m. on Wednesday. William Coutts was fatally wounded by an accidental rifle discharge while preparing to return home from an antelope hunt on the Red desert northwest of Wamsutter at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. Coutts was accompanied by George Robinson, Alex J. Lowham and Orlando Mills, all of Evanston. He died about 3 p. m. while being taken from the desert country to medical aid. He was shot in the pit of the stomach with la 30-40 calibre rifle. Coroner J. Warden Opie said no inquest would be held. It was stated that the man's companions told him the four had killed their antelope and were loading up preparing to return to Green River. The guns were stacked in the back seat of the car and the butt of one had slipped under the back of the driver's seat. Coutts was rearranging the guns so they would ride more safely, and the lever action of the one jammed under the front seat, discharging into his stomach as he attempted to dislodge it. William Coutts, son of William and Agnes Anderson Coutts, was born July 30, 1905, in Evanston. He was educated in the schools there and was employed by the Union Pacific railroad in Evanston before his transfer to Green River. He was a Past Master of the Blue Lodge of the Masonic Order, Mount Moriah Lodge No. 6 of Green River. Survivors are his wife and child who reside in Green River, a son by a former marriage and his mother, Mrs. William Coutts, Sr., of Evanston; a sister, Mrs. Robert Burns of Chicago; a brother, Andrew Coutts of Evanston, cashier of the Evanston National bank. The active list of pallbearers included Thomas A. Wilson, R. J. Thomas, Foster A. Jones, Edwin Sylvester, Grant White, and W. H. McAllister, all of Green River. The honorary pallbearers included William Haines, George Robinson, Orlando Mills, Alex Lowham, George Cluff and Mr. Cue, all of Evanston. This is the first hunting fatality in Sweetwater county in several years, and the first one since the antelope hunting season became general. The area in which the death occurred is 35 miles northwest of Wamsutter in the far eastern end of Sweetwater county. Arrangements for the funeral here were in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary, Rock Springs. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 6, 1942 Mrs. Gavin Young Dies Here Sunday Mrs. Gavin Young, 63, resident of Rock Springs for 60 years, died at 6:40 Sunday evening at her home, 801 Rhode Island avenue following a lingering illness. She was the wife of the late Gavin Young, who died in April 1935. Born in England, April 19, 1879, as Eliza Barrass, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barrass, she came with her parents to Rock Springs at the age of 3 years and was reared and educated here. She was married to the late Gavin Young in 1899 at Lander, and lived nearly all of her married life in this city. Mrs. Young was widely known for her gracious manner and her hospitality. She was active in the Congregational church here and a prominent member of the Easter Star lodge. Surviving are three sons, Lester and Alfred of Rock Springs; and Howard Young, who is stationed at Camp Kimore, N.J.; four daughters, Mrs. Joseph Fearn and Mrs. Elmer Likes of Rock Springs; Mrs. N.H. Pearson of Green River and Mrs. James Crawford of Laramie; two sisters, Mrs. Lon Poston of Lander and Bernice Barrass of Seattle, Wash.; five grandchildren, Rosella and Gilbert Young; Norma and Mary Jo Fearn and Nadine Likes. All will be here for the services with the exception of one son, Howard and Miss Barrass who visited her sister a month ago. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Congregational church by the Rev. Keenan Sheldon. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. The Wildermuth mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. The body will be taken to the family home at 7:30 Tuesday evening. --- Green River Star, Oct 9, 1942 Funeral Rites For Soldier Held In Manila Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Manila ward chapel of the L. D. S. church, Manila, Utah for Corporal Lafayette LaMar (Bud) Potter, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Potter, who was killed September 26 in an automobile accident in Oregon. Bishop Clifford Christensen of Manila officiated. Green River and Rock Springs members of Troop I, third squadron, Wyoming state guard, participated in the services as a firing squad and military escort. The group, under command of Sergeant Adrian Reynolds, consisted of Corporals James Crosson of Green River and Robert Vehar of Rock Springs; and Privates John Williams of Green River and M. Grosso, Ralph Weick, John Walker, Thomas Hearn and Andy Pandalis, all of Rock Springs. Potter, who enlisted in the army February 17, 1940, was stationed with Bt. F 249, Coast Artillery, at Fort Stevens, Ore. Promoted to a corporal last May, he was soon to have been advanced to the rank of sergeant. Corporal Potter was killed when the car in which he and four other soldiers were riding either skidded on the wet road or had a blowout and plunged from the highway. Also fatally injured in the accident was Staff Sgt. Grover Rice, while Sgt. Carl Sandbaum, Sgt. Bruce Hall and Sgt. Tec. Rex Gaslin were sent to the station hospital for treatment of injuries. Potter's body was accompanied home from Fort Stevens by Corp. John Bulbright, who also bore a letter from the commanding officer in which he commented on the "excellent character of Potter, and the "pleasant and efficient manner" in which he performed the duties of a soldier. "The officers and men who served with," the commanding officer wrote in regard to Potter, "will always be proud they knew him." Born November 2, 1915, in Manila, Potter attended grade school in Washam and high school in Manila. In addition to his parents, he is survived by the following brothers Burl, Everette, Von, Dee, Dave, Louis and Vern; and sisters, Mrs. Doyle Slagowski, Mrs. Ray Blackham of Kennelworth, Utah, Reva and Rena. --- Green River Star, Oct 16, 1942 Ground Crews Clear Wreckage Of Plane In Which Pilot Met Death Ground crews today had cleared away the last remaining wreckage of a speedy U. S. army fighter plane which crashed October 6 in rugged country 12 miles south and east of Granger, carrying its pilot, Captain William Edwin Davis, to his death. Charred wreckage of the single-motored pursuit ship was sighted from the air about 3p. m. Sunday by army airmen from the Romulus air base at Detroit, Mich., who had gained permission to aid in the search for Captain Davis. The fliers, friends of Davis at the Romulus base, were Captain Edward R. Crooks, Captain K. G. Catine and Pvt. Donald Metzenbaur. Captain Davis had left the Rock Springs airport about 10 a.m. October 6 after refueling and had been in the air only about 10 of the 40-minute scheduled flight to Salt Lake City when the crash occurred, according to information gained by investigators from a watch worn by the former United Air Lines pilot. After sighting the downed plane, the three fliers returned to the Rock Springs airport from where they contacted Deputy Sheriff James Overy, who was operating the highway patrol broadcasting station. Overy in turn notified Sheriff M. J. Dankowski and then, acting on instructions from Dankowski, brought the three fliers to Green River from where they started out to the scene of the accident. Metzenbauer alone of the five searchers actually reached the wrecked plane Sunday, determining that the pilot was dead, but darkness compelled him to rejoin other members of the party and they returned to Green River. A call for guards, an ambulance and other personnel and equipment was placed with army air officials at Salt Lake City and, together with Sheriff Dankowski, and county and sstate highway patrol officials, went to the scene of the accident early Monday morning. Wreckage of the plane was scattered for more than 150 yards from the point where the machine first struck the ground. Capt. Davis' body was found lying about 10 feet from the fuselage, still strapped in the cockpit seat which had been catapulted from the plane by force of the impact. Davis' body was removed to Salt Lake City and later taken to Las Angeles, Calif., for burial. His wife resides in Los Angeles. Scene of the Davis crash is about four miles east of the location where five army men lost their lives in May, 1911, when an army bomber crashed to earth. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 17, 1942 Mrs. Thos. Sneddon Dies At Her Home Friday Mrs. Thomas Sneddon, 69, resident of Rock Springs since 1925, died at her home at 39 First street at 11:15 a.m. Friday. She had been ill for five months. Mrs. Sneddon was born February 1, 1873 at Dunfermline, Scotland. She came with her family to the United States in July, 1923, locating first at Glencoe, near Kemmerer. Two years later the family moved to Rock Springs where they have since resided. She is survived by her husband, three sons, Robert Sneddon, who is serving with the U.S. navy at Oceanside, Calif.; Thomas of Lake Forest, Ill., and William Sneddon of Rock Springs, and one daughter, Mrs. William Herrell of San Jose, Calif. All her children and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Sneddon, are in the city, having been called here because of her serious illness. Funeral arrangements will be made today with the Wildermuth mortuary in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 17, 1942 Springs Woman Dies In Colorado Mrs. Cyrus J. Randolph, 1408 Tenth street, received word yesterday that her cousin, Mrs. Viola Lee, who has been making her home with the Cyrus Randolphs in Rock Springs, died suddenly Friday morning immediately after boarding a train at Pueblo, Colo., enroute to Rock Springs. Mrs. Lee went to Pueblo about a month ago to visit a lifelong friend. Mrs. Randolph left immediately for Pueblo upon receipt of her cousin’s sudden passing. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 23, 1942 MINE ACCIDENT INJURIES ARE FATAL TO ROCK SPRINGS MAN Peter Edwards, 31, died at Wyoming General hospital at 8:30 a.m. Thursday of injuries incurred at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Pacific Coal company’s No. 7 ½ mine at Winton. Edwards was struck by face coal incurring internal chest injuries. He was brought to Wyoming General hospital at once. It was evident from the first that he was suffering from extreme shock but it was not until several hours later that his condition was known to be critical. His wife, Vivian Moon Edwards, was summoned immediately from their home at 1144 Vermont street to the hospital where she remained until his death. Edwards was born in Rock Springs Jan. 3, 1911. He received his education in the city schools and then went to work for the Union Pacific Coal company. He was married to Vivian Moon here in June 1931. Besides his wife he is survived by two daughters, Ila Mae, 10, and Darhl, 8; his mother, Mrs. William Batters of 1107 Pilot Butte avenue; two brothers, Gordon Edwards of Rock Springs, and Billy Edwards who is stationed with the armed forces at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Edwards was an active member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion and had served for several years as a member of the vestry. Funeral arrangements will not be made until word is received from Edward’s brother at Ft. Lewis, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Harlin at Taft, Ore., and his brother-in-law, Clarence (Budd) Harlin, who is stationed at a camp in Louisiana. The body is at the Wildermuth Funeral home awaiting arrangements. County Coroner J. Warden Opie and officials of the Union Pacific Coal company Wednesday night and yesterday investigated the accident that cost Pete Edwards his life. A coroner’s inquest will be conducted within the next day or two. Edwards was unit foreman of the No. 7 ½ mine. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 24, 1942 Manila Resident Dies In Springs James Henry Warby, 76, of Manila, Utah, died at the Wyoming General hospital Friday at 3:30 p.m., after an illness of a week. Warby was well known in this vicinity and Manila where he had lived for about 45 years. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Edwin Boynton of Green River, and four grandchildren. Tentative arrangements have been made for funeral services to be held Monday from the LDS church in Manila. Rogan’s mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 24, 1942 Edwards’ Death Found Accidental County Coroner J. Warden Opie conducted an inquest Friday at Winton into the death of Peter Edwards, Union Pacific Coal company employee, who was fatally injured in the company’s No. 7 ½ mine at Winton Wednesday night. The jurors were Harry Armstrong, James Doak and Ray Smith. Their verdict follows: “We, the jury, find that the death of Pete Edwards was caused by the accidental fall of coal after being cut.” --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 27, 1942 Two-Day Old Son Of Superior Couple Dies Sunday John Albert Lenzi, two-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lenzi of Superior, died at Wyoming General hospital Sunday. Graveside service were held in Mountain View cemetery at 1 p.m. Monday with Rev. Walter Cobb of the Methodist church officiating. The Rogan mortuary was in charge of the interment. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Oct 27, 1942 Mrs. Henkel Dies At Daughter’s Home in Evanston Mrs. Louise Henkel, 79, resident of Rock Springs for 48 years died at 7:30 a.m. Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Earl Bradbury, in Evanston. Mrs. Henkel was taken to Evanston last week by Mrs. Bradbury, after remaining a patient at Wyoming General hospital here since August 31 when she suffered a paralytic stroke. Mrs. Henkel’s home was a 119 Thomas street, this city. She came to Rock Springs in 1894 after residing at Green River for six years. She was born in Germany August 11, 1863 and came to this country in 1888, arriving at Baltimore where she was married to Louis Henkel with whom she went to Green River later that year. Mrs. Henkel is survived by two sons and two daughters, Oscar of Rock Springs and Arthur G. Henkel of San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Helen Whitman of Riverton and Mrs. Bradbury of Evanston. She is also survived by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Her husband died here in October, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Henkel left for Evanston yesterday shortly after being advised of her death. The body will be brought to Rock Springs and will be at the Oscar Henkel home from Wednesday noon until 2 p.m. Thursday and funeral arrangements will be in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral home. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Congregational church here with Rev. Kennan Sheldon officiating. Burial will be at Mountain View cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 3, 1942 BODY OF AGED RAILROAD MAN IS FOUND IN OLD LIME SUMP The body of George Pete Checos, 61, railroad laborer, was found in a drainage ditch near the stockyards in Green River about 12:20 p.m. Sunday by Sheriff M.J. Dankowski and Pete Argeras. He had been missing for 10 days and his disappearance had been reported to authorities. Checos, who was last seen on the night of October 22, had lived in Green River about 36 years. He was a railroad section worker and was one of a group of men called out on an extra gang to sand stock cars on the evening of October 22. He arrived with the other men between 6 and 6:30 p.m. and a few minutes after 6:30, he put his shovel in a sand bank and said something about not feeling like working and left. He was noticed around Green River about 8 o’clock and again at 8:30 that evening when he talked to some acquaintances. This was the last time he is reported to have been seen. It is thought that Checos walked back to the stock yards and accidentally fell into the ditch which drains the water softener plant of the U.P. and contains a mass of loose lime and water, resembling quick sand. Coroner J. Warden Opie said yesterday that there will be no inquest. Checos lived alone in a small shack. He is survived by one cousin, Christ Kolin Tsas, of Indian Harbor, Ind. He was godfather to George Pulos of Green River. Funeral arrangements have not been made. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 4, 1942 Checos Funeral Is 2 P.M. Thursday In Green River Funeral services will be held in Green River on Thursday at 2 p.m. from the social hall for George Pete Checos, 61, who was found dead in a drainage ditch on Sunday. The Rev. P.A. Pappacastas of Pocatello, Idaho, will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Riverview cemetery in Green River. Pallbearers will be Pete Curtis, John Apaspotopulas, Gust Kacaralis, John Scarpos, John Kalivas and Tom Kallas. Rogan mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 4, 1942 TWO TRAVELERS ARE CRUSHED TO DEATH SOUTH OF GREEN RIVER AS THEY CHANGE TIRE Two men were killed instantly at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday when an eastbound car, driven by Eugene Pelkowski of Milwaukee, Wis., crashed headon into a westbound parked car on the Lincoln highway five miles west of Green River. The dead men are Oliver Norby, 26, and LeRoy Anderson, 21, both of Bristol, S.D. Norby and Anderson had parked their car on the right hand side of the road and were changing the front left tire when the east bound car plowed into them. The two men were crushed between the two cars. Norby’s body was picked up at the rear of the parked car but Anderson’s body was dragged for 50 feet down the road. Traveling with Norby and Anderson, were their wives and Anderson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Anderson of Bristol, S.D. They were driving at 1939 Buick. When a flat tire forced them to stop they parked on the pavement but on their own side of the yellow line, highway officials said last night. Traveling with Pelkowski in a 1935 Plymouth were Ray Kuras and Rudy Vrana of Cudahy, Wis., and Harry Keishian of South Milwaukee. The four were returning to their homes from the west coast. State Highway Patrolman Neil Boyd and County Coroner J. Warden Opie were notified of the tragedy by telephone from the Covered Wagon camp and reached the scene of the accident shortly after 6 a.m. The bodies of the dead men were brought into Rock Springs immediately and an investigation into the accident was started at once. Coroner Opie named William Evers, John J. Grundel and E.A. Gaensslen, all of Green River, to act as a coroner’s jury that will hear evidence of the accident at 7 o’clock tonight at the courthouse in Green River. The jurors, Patrolman Boyd and Opie visited the scene of the accident again yesterday afternoon. The Anderson and Norby families were en route to San Diego where the father, son and Norby were to have been employed. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 6, 1942 Dines Man Dies At Hospital Thursday Charles Meyer Creed, cook at the boarding house at Dines, died at Wyoming General hospital early Thursday morning. He had been a patient at the hospital for two days. Creed was about 53 years old and had lived in this community for 14 years. He is survived by a brother residing in Maryland and a cousin living in Salt Lake City. The body is at the Rogan mortuary pending receipt of word from these relatives. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 6, 1942 Death of Mother Calls Three Of SW Wyoming Mrs. W.J. Johnson of this city, Mrs. L.P. Keihm of Bitter Creek and William Nellen of Calpet, left last night for Chappel, Neb., where they were called because of the death of their mother, Mrs. Jacob Nellen. Mrs. Nellen, 79, who was widely known in this vicinity where she has lived for many years, died Wednesday night at the home of her son, Fred Nellen at Chappel, after several weeks’ illness. Born Carolina Mahr in Wintersberg, Alsace, Loraine on January 24, 1863, she decided at the age of 20 to come to the United States and arrived in Maryville, Kan., on August 4, 1883. She was married to Jacob Nellen, January 22, 1887 and the following March left with her husband for Freeport, Neb., where they made their home for 14 years. In 1901 the Nellen family moved to Bitter Creek where Mr. Nellen worked for the Union Pacific railroad company, they lived there for a number of years. After Mr. Nellen’s retirement, the couple made their home in Rock Springs. Mr. Nellen died August 9, 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Nellen were the parents of 12 children, eight of whom are living. They are, Mrs. Anna Madden of Grants Pass, Ore., Nick Nellen, North Platte, Neb., William Nellen, Calpet, Mrs. Keihm of Bitter Creek, Mrs. Johnson, Rock Springs and Fred Nellen of Chappel, Neb., and Mrs. Kate Lavon of Denver. Funeral arrangements will be made awaiting the arrival of her sons and daughters. Burial will be at Sidney, Neb. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 6, 1942 Former Superior Residents Lose Son In Fray Sgt. Earl Purdy, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Purdy who formerly lived at Superior and who now reside in Salt Lake City, was killed in action in the British Isles Oct. 29, the war department notified his parents Wednesday. He was a rear gunner in the U.S. air corps and left for foreign service in September. Sgt. Purdy was born in Kemmerer Sept. 8, 1918. --- Green River Star, Nov 6, 1942 Funeral Services Held Thursday For Aged Railroad Laborer Funeral services for George Pete Checos, 61, of Green River whose lifeless body was found Sunday noon in a drainage ditch near the stockyards, were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Social hall. Pallbearers were Pete Curtis, John Apostulapos, Gust Kacaralis, John Scarpos, John_Kalivas and Tom Kallas. The Rev. P. A. Papacostos of the Greek Orthodox church in Pocatello, Idaho, officiated. Discovery by Sheriff M. J. Dankowski of Checos' body ended a search for the aged railroad section worker who had been missing for 10 days. Sheriff Dankowski was being aided in his search by Peter Argeres, local grocer, at the time the body was found. Checos last was seen alive the night of October 22 when he was called out with an extra gang to help sand stock cars. He arrived with the other men shortly after 6 p. m. and after working but a few minutes laid down his shovel and departed. He was seen later that evening in town, about 8 o'clock, and again at 8:30 p. m., talking with friends, and then disappeared. It is believed that he had started to walk back to the stockyards and accidentally fell into the ditch, which carries to the river waters used to clean lime and other sediment from boilers of engines serviced in the local railroad yard. Checos' body was lying face down in the ditch when found. It is evident that he had struggled to regain solid footing but was unable to do so in the lime-soaked muck, resembling quick sand, which covers bottom of the ditch. --- Green River Star, Nov 6, 1942 Jury Exonerates Driver of Blame In Highway Deaths Near Here Eugene Pelkowski of Milwaukee, Wis., driver of an automobile which struck and killed two men early Tuesday morning on the Lincoln highway five miles west of Green River, was exonerated of all blame in connection with the accident by an inquest jury convened here Wednesday night at request of County Coroner J. Warden Opie. Serving on the jury were William Evers, John J. Grundell and Emil Gaensslen, all of Green River. The victims, Oliver Norby, 26, and LeRoy Anderson, 21, both of Bristol, S. D. were struck and killed while engaged in changing the left front tire on their automobile, which was parked on the right side of the highway, headed west. Traveling with Norby and Anderson, who were en route to the west coast in search of employment, were their wives and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Anderson of Bristol, S. D., parents of Anderson and Mrs. Norby. In the Pelkowski car were Rudy Vrana, owner of the machine, and Ray Kuras, both of Cudahy, Wis., and Harry Kleishian of South Milwaukee, all of whom were returning to their homes from the west coast. Sheriff M. J. Dankowski and State Highway Patrolman Neal Boyd, who investigated the accident, said that the Anderson car, pulling a heavy trailer, had stopped on the hill a short distance west of the Covered Wagon camp while the two men prepared to change the left front tire, which had gone flat. The senior Andersons and the wives of the accident victims were all in the car when the Vrana machine, driven by Pelkowski, allegedly came across the middle of the road and crashed into the left front side of the Anderson automobile. Both Anderson and Norby were crushed against their own car, then dragged and thrown beyond the automobile onto the paving, life crushed out of them. The front end of the Vrana car was so badly smashed that it was unable to proceed while the front end of the Anderson car also was badly wrecked. Occupants of both machines, however, escaped without injury. Occupants of the Vrana car reportedly told Sheriff Dankowski that they had been blinded by the headlights of the Anderson car. The accident marked the first fatalities on the new "gun barrel" federal highway which has just been completed west of Green River and accounted for the eighth and ninth highway deaths in Sweetwater county this year. The two deaths also gave Sweetwater county the unenviable position of leading the state in the number of highway fatalities for 1942. Sheriff Dankowski said Thursday, The accident occurred on a straight-away stretch of wide paving less than a mile west of a curve on the old highway route that had been regarded as a death trap and had been eliminated by the new road. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 7, 1942 Funeral for C.M. Creed To Be Sunday Funeral services for Charles Meyer Creed, 51, who died early Thursday morning at the Wyoming General hospital after a two days’ illness, will be held at the Rogan chapel at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. E.E. Acheson of the First Baptist church will officiate. Mr. Creed, who was a cook at the boarding house at Dines and had lived in this community for 14 years, is survived by his father, Robert Creed of Mt. Airy, N.C.; three brothers, Quealy of Edmonton, Md.; George W. and James S.; three sisters, Mrs. Flora Bodin, Mrs. Ida Robinson and Miss Cora Creed, all of Mt. Airy, and a cousin, G.G. Smith of Salt Lake City. The body may be viewed by friends at the Rogan mortuary from 9 a.m. Sunday until time for the services. The body will be shipped to his old home in Mt. Airy, N.C. for burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 10, 1942 Mother of Springs Woman Dies in Rawlins Hospital Mrs. Serafino Paoli of 843 North Front street returned Sunday from Rawlins where she was called ten days ago because of the death of her mother, Mrs. Anna Denora Thompson, who died at Carbon County Memorial hospital there Oct. 30. Mrs. Thompson was born in Clay Center, Kans., March 6, 1877, and besides Mrs. Paoli is survived by three sons, Francis M. Thompson of Petaluma, Cal., Sidney Thompson who is serving in the U.S. air corps at Casper, and Ole M. Thompson who is serving in the coast guard in California; one granddaughter, Evelyn Gordon, and one brother, Fred Erickso of Oklahoma City. The funeral was held in Rawlins Tuesday of last week and the body was shipped to Paxton, Neb., for burial beside the grave of her husband, Seibert Thompson, who died a few years ago. Mrs. Thompson had lived in Rawlins for the last four years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 10, 1942 LEE FUNERAL RITES TO BE WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Norton Lee, 45, Rock Springs business man who died suddenly at the Wyoming General hospital Saturday, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Episcopal church of the Holy Communion. The Rev. A.L. Jones will officiate. The pallbearers will be James Davis, Cecil K. Haines, Orlo C. Hetts, Paul Juel, Wayne Keith and H.C. Livingston. Interment will be made in the Mountain View cemetery with military honors accorded by the Archie Hay post No. 24, American Legion with color guard and firing squad in uniform. The ritualistic graveside service of the Legion will be conducted by George Johns, past department commander, in the absence of W.T. Nightingale, post commander, assisted by Carl Schwarz, post chaplain. The body will lie in state at the Wildermuth Funeral Home between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday. Norton Lee was a native of Rock Springs, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Lee, pioneer residents of the city. He was born Feb. 20, 1897 and spent his life here with exception of a few years that the Lee family lived in Cheyenne. A World War I veteran he was a member of the Archie Hay post of the American Legion. He also was a member of the Rock Springs Masonic lodge. Lee’s son-in-law and daughter, Lieutenant and Mrs. Howard Knudsen, will arrive in Rock Springs by plane early Wednesday morning from Tampa, Fla., where Lieut. Knudsen is stationed with the U.S. air corps. Other members of the family who were called to the city because of his death were his son, John Lee, a student at Colorado School of Mines at Golden; Mrs. Lee’s mother, Mrs. Edward Bryant, and her sister, Mrs. William Pelltier, both of Denver. Besides his wife and Mrs. Knudsen and John Lee, he is survived by two other daughters, Carolyn and Jean; one brother, James Lee of Reliance and two sisters, Mrs. Ralph Harns, Rock Springs and Mrs. J.E. Gilmer, Athens, Ga. Friends and business associates who will be in the city for the services include Mr. and Mrs. Harold McKay of Rawlins, LeRoy Snow and W.G. Lyser of Casper and E.D. Axe of Laramie. Lyster and Axe are representatives of the Texas Oil company with which Lee was associated at its Rock Springs distributing point for 20 years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 10, 1942 MRAK FUNERAL TO BE AT 10 A.M. THURSDAY The funeral of Mrs. Frank Mrak will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday from the North Side Catholic church with Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. The body will be taken to the Mrak home at 2 p.m. Wednesday where rosaries will be said that night. The North Side parishioners will say the rosary at 7 o’clock, the Knights of Columbus at 7:30 and the Holy Name Society immediately following. Funeral arrangements were made yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Mrak’s brother, John Demshar, who is serving with the armed forces in Florida, advised the family that he would arrive in Rock Springs Wednesday. Mrs. Mrak died of pneumonia at Wyoming General hospital Saturday following a two-day illness. She was the former Albena Demshar, daughter of John Demshar of 202 Gale street and is survived by her husband, Frank Mrak; three sisters, Mrs. Valentine Homec, Mrs. John Wompey and Anne Demshar, and two brothers, Carl Demshar of Rock Springs and John Demshar. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery in charge of the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 12, 1942 W.S. Holmes, 82, Pioneer Rancher, Dies Wednesday W.S. Holmes, 82, a resident of Sweetwater county for the last 35 years, died at Wyoming General hospital Wednesday afternoon. He had been a patient there since Oct. 27 and had been in failing health for several months prior to that time. Mr. Holmes owned and operated the Holmes ranch, situated 28 miles south of Green River where he operated a ferry across the Green River. During his residence in this county he took an active interest in politics, maintaining his political allegiance with the Democratic party. He was born in Burton-on-Trent in Devonshire, England, Oct. 27, 1860. He came to the United States at the age of seven years and before coming to Sweetwater county lived first in New York and later in Texas. Mr. Holmes is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Holmes; one sister, Mrs. Peter J. Huth of Sacramento, Calif., who arrived in Rock Springs last night and one brother, Will J. Holmes, also of Sacramento. Funeral arrangements have not been made other than that the funeral ervice will be held at the Episcopal church in Green River. The Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 12, 1942 Funeral Rites for Green River Man Set for Saturday Sidney Duane Joy, 44, of Green River, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Green River. He was yard engineer for the Union Pacific and had lived there for 40 years. He was born in Hanna Sept. 11, 1898. Surviving him are his wife and a daughter, Iris Carol; two brothers, Theodore K. Joy of Los Angeles and Albert L. Joy of Green River, and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Humphries of Nampa, Idaho, Mrs. Alice Ashton and Mrs. Evelyn Richens of Los Angeles. He was a World War I veteran and was a member of the Green River post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Congregational church in Green River with Rev. James Allen officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery there in charge of the Rogan mortuary. The body will be taken to the Joy family home in Green River at 2 p.m. Friday where it will remain until the funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 12, 1942 Infant Dies Here While Family Is Enroute to Boise The body of Norma Jean, one-year and nine-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Roark of Rawlins, who died in Rock Springs Tuesday, was shipped from here last night to Grand Valley, Colo., for burial The Roark family was en route from Rawlins to Boise, Idaho when the child was taken ill. She died shortly after their arrival in Rock Springs. The body was shipped from the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 12, 1942 Griffin Funeral to Be Held in Chandler, Oklahoma The body of Clarence M. Griffin, 45, of Green River who died suddenly of a heart attack at the Oxford club there Monday night, was shipped last night to Chandler, Okla. for burial. Mrs. Griffin accompanied the body. The Griffins had lived in Green River for the last six months. Besides his wife, Griffin is survived by his mother, Mrs. Edward Griffin, and four brothers, of Chandler. The Rogan mortuary was in charge of arrangements here. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 12, 1942 Railroad Fireman Dies Suddenly In Green River George E. McEvers of Rawlins, a Union Pacific fireman running between Rawlins and Green River, died suddenly at 11:30 a.m. yesterday in Green River. McEvers was taken ill in the cab of his engine and was rushed to a Green River doctor for aid. He died a few seconds after entering the doctor’s office. Coroner J. Warden Opie said last night that an autopsy would be performed to determine the cause of McEver’s death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 13, 1942 Holmes Funeral Is Set For 2 P.M. Sunday Funeral services for W.S. Holmes, pioneer Sweetwater county resident who died at Wyoming General hospital Wednesday, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Episcopal church in Green River. Rev. A.L. Jones, rector of the Church of the Holy Communion of Rock Springs, will officiate and burial will be in Riverview cemetery at Green River. Mr. Holmes lived on the Holmes Ranch 28 miles south of Green River and was well known throughout the county. He had been ill for several weeks. He was a native of England. Mr. Holmes’ sister, Mrs. Peter J. Huth of Sacramento, Calif., is in Rock Springs to attend the funeral. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Holmes, his sister and a brother, Will J. Holmes of Sacramento. The body will be taken to the church in Green River at noon Sunday to remain until the funeral hour. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 13, 1942 Mrs. John Kudar, Resident of City 39 Years, Dies Mrs. John Kudar, 66, of 1209 Clark street, died at Wyoming General hospital shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday. Cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death. Mrs. Kudar was taken ill as she arose at 6 o’clock Wednesday morning. She succeeded in getting into the livingroom of her home after notifying members of her family that she was ill. Shortly afterwards she lapsed into unconsciousness. She was taken to the hospital but died without regaining consciousness. Prior to her fatal illness she was in apparent good health. Mrs. Kudar had lived in Rock Springs since 1903. She was born in St. Janz, what was then Austria, but what later became Yugoslavia, April 15, 1876. She was a parishioner of the North Side Catholic church and was a member of the Rock Springs branch of the S.N.P.J. lodge. Mrs. Kudar is survived by her husband, four sons and two daughters. They are Joe and Max Kudar of Jackson, John Jr. and Alfred Kudar of Rock Springs. She had eight grandchildren. So far as she knew she had a brother in Yugoslavia but of whom she had heard nothing for many months. Funeral arrangements are pending receipt of word from relatives but will be made today. The body is at the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 13, 1942 Hawkins Services To Be Held Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for Earl R. Hawkins, 49, who died at 4:15 Monday morning at the Wyoming General hospital after a two days illness, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Congregational church in Green River. The Rev. James Allen will officiate. Hawkins, who was employed as car man for the U.P. railroad, had been a resident of the Green River community for four years. He was born March 24, 1893, at Aurora, Neb. His only survivor is a niece living in Fremont, Neb., and the body will be shipped to the Bader Funeral home there for burial. Rogan mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. --- Green River Star, Nov 13, 1942 Griffin Body Sent To Oklahoma For Burial Rites The body of Clarence M. Griffin, 45, who died suddenly Monday night in the Oxford club of a heart attack was shipped Wednesday night to Chandler, Okla., for burial. Griffin had lived in Green River for the past six months. He is survived by his wife, who accompanied the body to Chandler, his mother, Mrs. Edward Griffin, and four brothers, all of Chandler. Rogan Mortuary was in charge of local funeral arrangements. --- Green River Star, Nov 13, 1942 Funeral Services For Earl Hawkins Set For Saturday Funeral services will be held at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the Union Congregational church in Green River for Earl R. Hawkins, 49, who died Monday morning in Wyoming General hospital after a two-day illness. The Rev. James B. Allan will officiate. Employed as a carman by the Union Pacific railroad in Green River, Hawkins had been a resident of this community for four years. He was born March 24, 1893, in Aurora, Nebr. His only surviving relative is a niece living in Fremont, Nebr., and his body will be shipped there by Rogan Mortuary for burial. --- Green River Star, Nov 13, 1942 Holmes Funeral Services To Be Held Sunday Funeral services for W. S. Holmes, 82, well-known Wyoming livestockman and a pioneer Sweetwater county resident, will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Episcopal church in Green River with the Rev. Alfred Lee Jones officiating. Holmes died Wednesday afternoon in Wyoming General hospital in Rock Springs where he had been confined since a few days before election. A native of England, Holmes had operated a small cattle ranch on the Green river, at Holmes' Ferry, 35 miles south of here, since 1908, when he homesteaded at the mouth of Currant creek. During the intervening time, he had taken an active part in the affairs of cattlemen's associations, both state and county, and had held offices in both organizations. He had, in the early days of the Taylor Grazing act district, also taken an active part in the affairs of the district's advisory board. Holmes' ranch was known to every river traveler who has attempted the perilous river journey from Green River down the Green and Colorado rivers to the lower end of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and it was the pride of himself and Mrs. Holmes that every expedition of the past 34 years to successfully complete the trip had stopped at the ranch. His crossing of the river is the only ferry between Green River and the Brinegar ferry near the Utah line. Holmes was born in England, in October in 1860 and with his parents came to this country as a small boy. His younger days were spent in Texas where he became identified with railroads, and as a railroader he came west. When the Colorado Midland was built through the depths of Colorado's mountains almost a half century ago, he went to western Colorado as a mechanical superintendent for that railroad, which was wrecked for junk during World War I. In 1907, he retired from active participation in the railroad business after acquiring an interest in cattle raising. He and Mrs. Holmes came here in 1908 after spending several months in the Riverton and Casper vicinities looking for a ranch location. Surviving are his wife; one sister, Mrs. Peter Huth of: Sacramento, Calif.; a brother, William Holmes, of California; one nephew, two nieces and a grandson, Edward Stevens, and a great-grandson, all in California. The body will be taken to the Episcopal church at 12 o'clock noon and burial will be in Riverview cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogan Mortuary. --- Green River Star, Nov 13, 1942 Funeral Rites For S. D. Joy To Be Saturday Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Union Congregational church for Sidney Duane Joy, 44, Green River railroad worker who died Tuesday afternoon at his home here of a cerebral hemorrhage. The Rev. James B. Allan is to officiate. Pallbearers will be John Simpson, Reed Thomas, B. V. Thomas, Albert Moerke, Lawrence Humphries and Albert Joy. Employed as a yard engineer by the Union Pacific railroad, Joy had lived in Green River for the past 40 years, coming here from Hanna where he was born September 11, 1898. A veteran of World War I, Joy was a member of Pilot Butte post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Green River. Members of the post will serve as honorary pallbearers. Surviving Joy are his wife, Mae, a daughter, Iris Carol; two brothers, Theodore K. Joy of Los Angeles and Albert L. Joy of Green River; and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Humphries of Nampa, Idaho, Mrs. Alice Ashton and Mrs. Evelyn Richens of Los Angeles. The body will be taken to the family home in Green River at 2 o'clock this afternoon where it will remain until time of the funeral. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery, under direction of Rogan Mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 14, 1942 Kudar Funeral To Be Monday At 10 A.M. Funeral services for Mrs. John Kudar, resident of the city since 1903, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the North Side Catholic church, with Rev. Albin Gnidovec officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. The rosary will be said at the Kudar home at 1209 Clark street at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Kudar died at Wyoming General hospital Thursday following a two-day illness. Death was due to cerebral hemorrhage. She is survived by her husband, four sons, Joe and Max Kudar of Jackson, John Jr. and Alfred of Rock Springs, and two daughters, Mrs. John Pernich and Anne Kudar of Rock Springs. Mrs. Kudar was born in what is now Yugoslavia April 15, 1876. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 17, 1942 Tagnolli Rites To Be Thursday Funeral services for Leo L. Tangolli of Superior, 63, who died at 11:30 a.m. Saturday will be held at 9:30 o’clock Thursday at the South Side Catholic church. The Rev. S.A. Welsh will officiate. The rosary will be said at the Rogan chapel on Wednesday evening at 7:30. Tagnolli, who had been a patient at the hospital since September 30, had lived in Superior for 32 years. He is survived by his wife, Ernesta, two sons, Theodore of Superior and Raymond, who is serving with the U.S. armed forces, one daughter, Mrs. Jelinda Martin of Ogden, and a brother, David, residing in Italy. The Rogan mortuary is in charge of arrangements and burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 17, 1942 Miner Killed by Fall of Rock at Reliance Mine Mike Semis of Rock Springs, 50, was instantly killed at 7:15 Monday evening by a fall of rock at Reliance mine. Frank Hopkins, also of Rock springs, was reported to be slightly injured in the same accident. Semis, who was recently married, lives on No. 1 hill. He is survived by his wife. Coroner’s inquest for Semis will be held at 11 o’clock this morning. Jay Walker, Frank Ellis and Gus Pretti will act on the coroner’s jury for the inquest. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 19, 1942 Mike Semos Killed By Falling Coal Arrangements for funeral services for Mike Semos, coal miner who was killed Monday night in the No. 1 entry of the No. 7 mine at Reliance, will be made this morning following the arrival of a brother last night from California. Coroner J. Warden Opie yesterday conducted an inquest into Semos’ death and the jury found that he was killed “accidentally by falling rock.” Members of the jury hearing the evidence were Frank Ellis, foreman; Gus Pretti and Jay Walker. Frank Hopkins, miner who was injured in the same accident, continues a patient at Wyoming General hospital. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 20, 1942 Semos Funeral To Be Saturday Funeral services for Mike Semos, 50, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Greek Orthodox church on N street. A Greek priest will be brought to Rock Springs to conduct the service. Burial will take place in the Mountain View cemetery. The body will be moved to the Semos home, 227 Eighth street, Saturday morning at 9 o’clock. Semos, a Union Pacific coal miner, was killed by falling coal Monday night in the No. 7 mine at Reliance. He had lived in Rock Springs for 15 years. He is survived by his wife, Anna, of Rock Springs; his mother, Mrs. Mary Simvoulakis, of Crete, Greece; a brother, George Simovoulakis, of Modesto, Calif. who is in Rock Springs for the funeral, and a brother and a sister, Manos Simvoulakis and Mrs. Argie Boutous, who reside in Crete, Greece. Semos was born in Crete in 1892. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 21, 1942 Killed in Actoin JACK S. WOOD Pfc. Jack S. Wood, who enlisted with the U.S. marines last February, has been killed in action in the south Pacific area, the war department has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wood, 808 D street. The parents received a telegram at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon from T. Holcomb, lieutenant-general of the U.S. marines, reading, “Deeply regret to advise you that your son, Pfc. Jack S. Wood of the U.S. marines was killed in action in performance of his duty and in the service of his country. Letter will follow.” Wood finished his marine training at San Diego in June. He sailed from this country for foreign service in July. Private First Class Wood was graduated from the Rock Springs high school and before his enlistment was employed by the local post office. Friends in the city were saddened by the news of his death, and expressions of sympathy were extended to the bereaved family. Another son, Captain Clayton Wood, is also stationed with the U.S. armed forces on one of the global battlefronts. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 24, 1942 Alexander Rites To Be Held at 2 P.M. Today The funeral of Steve Alexander Sr., 45, of Reliance will be held at 2 p.m. today form the Rogan mortuary chapel. Rev. E.E. Acheson of the First Baptist church will officiate followed by burial in Mountain View cemetery. Alexander died Saturday at Wyoming General hospital. He was employed by the Union Pacific Coal company at Reliance. He is survived by his wife, Ida; two sons, Steve Jr., who is stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, and Paul Edward; five daughters, Mrs. Florence Boatright and Mrs. Pauline Hereford of Rock Springs, Mrs. Leona Rosa of Haileyville, Okla., and Betty Jo and Shirley Anne, at home. Alexander was a native of Hartshorne, Okla. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 24, 1942 Services for Dines Infant Are Monday Funeral services for Gilbert, three and one-half months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Espinoza of Dines, were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the South Side Catholic church, Rev. S.A. Welsh officiated and burial was in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The child died at Wyoming General hospital Saturday. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Leo and Alonzo and two sisters, Rebecca and Fidelia. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 24, 1942 Mrs. Louis Biro Dies Sunday At Hospital Here Mrs. Louis Biro, 64, died at Wyoming General hospital Sunday where she had been a patient for three months. Mrs. Biro was born in Hungary Aug. 18, 1878. She and her husband have lived in Rock Springs for 35 years. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Rose Tout of Superior. A sister resides in Hungary. Funeral services are pending with the Rogan mortuary in charge. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 24, 1942 Andrew Smail Sr. Dies Monday At Eden Home Andrew Smail Sr. died at 8 a.m. Monday at his home in Eden Valley. He was 72 years old and had lived in the Eden area for a number of years where he and his family were well known. Mr. Smail was born in Scotland Dec. 23, 1870. He is survived by three sons, James of Cheyenne, Andrew Jr. and David of Eden; and four daughters, Mrs. Clifford Sims, Mrs. George Kalinger and Jean Smail of Eden and Mrs. Glenn Moffatt of Neola, Iowa. He also has a sister residing in Scotland. Funeral arrangements will be made today and will be in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary. Burial will be in the cemetery at Farson. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 24, 1942 Funeral Rites For Green River Pioneer Today William Robert Malonek, 82, died at his home in Green River at 9 o’clock Saturday night. He had lived in the Green River area between 55 and 60 years and in the early days was one of the first star route mail carriers in the Green river valley section. Later he went into the ranching business. Mr. Malonek was born in Dacing, Germany, May 25, 1860. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Congregational church in Green River with Rev. James Allen officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview cemetery in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home. The body will be taken to the church at 1 p.m. today. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 25, 1942 Smail Funeral To Be Held At Eden Today Funeral services for Andrew Smail Sr., 72, will beheld at the Eden valley church at 2 p.m. today. Rev. Kennan Sheldon will officiate and burial will be in the Farson cemetery. Mr. Smail, longtime resident of the Eden area, died early Monday at his home there. He is survived by his wife, three sons, James of Cheyenne, Andrew Jr. and David of Eden; and four daughters, Mrs. Clifford Sims, Mrs. George Kannger and Jean Smail of Eden and Mrs. Glenn Moffatt of Neola, Iowa. Smail was born in Scotland Dec. 23, 1870, and has a sister residing there. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 25, 1942 Biro Services To Be Held Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Louis Biro, 64, will be held Friday morning at the South Side Catholic church at 9:30 o’clock. The Rev. S.A. Welsh will have charge of the services. Rosary will be said at 7 o’clock Thursday evening at the Rogan chapel. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Mrs. Biro, who died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday after a three months’ illness, was born in Hungary August 18, 1878. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Rose Tout of Superior and a sister who lives in Hungary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 26, 1942 Six-Year Illness Claims Life Of J.W. Rees John William Rees, 41, died at 7 a.m. Wednesday at his home at 415 Railroad avenue. Death resulted from a heart affliction with which he had suffered for the last six years. Ten days ago his illness became acute and he became bedfast. Billy Rees, as he was known, was born in Erie, Colo., Feb. 25, 1901. In 1911 he came to Rock Springs and since had made this city his home. On Aug. 18, 1920 he was married to Rebecca Alice Webster, daughter of Mrs. M.L. Webster of Rock Springs, the ceremony taking place in this city. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Albert Hesketh, Rebecca Alice and Lois LaVerne Rees, and one son, James Richard Rees, and two grandchildren. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rees, of 1104 Elk street and two sisters, Mrs. G. Van Valkenberg and Mrs. William Burdess, who reside at No. Six, also survive him. Rees was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie No. 151, and the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. and Mrs. Martt L. Brown of Salt Lake City, an uncle and aunt of Rees, arrived in the city before his death and are remaining here until after the funeral service. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon at the Congregational church. The Rev. Keenan Sheldon will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. The body will be taken to the family home, 415 Railroad avenue, Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Rogan Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 26, 1942 Manila Teacher Dies in Springs Miss Geneva Marriott died at 3 o’clock Wednesday morning at the Wyoming General hospital. Miss Marriott, who had taught school at Manila, Utah, for the last three years was brought to the hospital Tuesday. The body will be shipped from the Rogan Mortuary to Ogden, Utah this morning, accompanied by Perry Marriott, her brother, who came to Rock Springs from Ogden when notified of Miss Marriott’s death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 27, 1942 Mrs. Fenton Dies Wednesday Night In Green River Mrs. L.B. Fenton died Wednesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bennett Anderson, in Green River. The Fentons lived at Green River several years ago but recently have resided in Utah. She is survived by several toher children including a son, Charles Fenton, who resides in San Francisco. Funeral arrangements will be made today with the Wildermuth mortuary in charge. --- Green River Star, Nov 27, 1942 Fenton Funeral To Be Held Here On Sunday Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Social hail for Mrs. Alice Fenton, who died at 5:45 p. m. Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bennett Anderson, in Green River, following a lingering illness. Mrs. Fenton, widow of Charles H. Fenton, was born December 29, 1879, in Salt Lake City, the daughter of Isabel and Alfred Boyd. She was married to Charles H. Fenton on November 3, 1902, in Montana. She is survived by two sons, Lee B. Fenton, and Charles F. Fenton of San Francisco; two daughters, Mrs. George Beebe and Mrs. Bennett Anderson, both of Green River; four brothers, Lee, Edward and James Boyd, of Salt Lake City, and George Boyd of Montana; and three sisters, Mrs. August Steiner of Sheridan, Mont., Mrs. Eliza Schowe of Alder, Mont., Mrs. Priscilla Dixon of Las Vegas, Nev. Twelve grandchildren also survive. The body will be taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anderson, at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon where it will remain until shortly before time of funeral services. Wildermuth Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 28, 1942 Fenton Funeral Rites To Be Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Fenton, 62, of Green River, will be held at the social hall there at 2 p.m. Sunday with Bishop John Taylor of the L.D.S. church officiating. Mrs. Fenton, resident of Green River for 22 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bennett Anderson, in Green River Wednesday evening. Besides Mrs. Anderson she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Clara Beebe of Green River; two sons, Lee B. of Green River and Charles F. of San Francisco; and 12 grandchildren. She also has four brothers and three sisters, George Boyd of Alder, Mont., James, Edward and Lee Boyd of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Pricilla Dixon of Las Vegas, Nev., Mrs. Sue Steiner of Sheridan, Mont., and Mrs. Eliza Schowe of Alder, Mont. Her husband, Charles Fenton, died in Green River Aug. 13, 1931. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 28, 1942 Utah Man Dies At Home Of Brother Here George F. Bell, 53, of Morgan, Utah, died at the home of his brother, D.E. Bell, 106 Center, Rock Springs, at 8:30 a.m. Friday. He had been ill for the last four months and came to Rock Springs ten days ago from Utah. He had been employed at the cement plant at Devil’s Slide, Utah. He was a native of Almy, Wyo., and had lived in this community at one time while employed by the Gunn-Quealy Coal company. The body will be shipped from the Wildermuth Funeral Home to Henefer, Utah, for burial. Besides his brother residing here, he is survived by a brother, L.F. Bell, of Morgan, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Vail, of Seattle. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Dec 1942 October Injuries PETER EDWARDS, American, age 31, married, unit foreman, Section No. 3, Winton No. 7½ Mine. FATAL. This crew was working in a room pillar place. The first cut was being made in a pillar pocket, the place being cut from the high to the low side. The machine man in this crew had never run the type of mining machine being used and Pete was instructing him. The cut had been completed and Pete was pulling the machine out from under the cut and up the hill. The controller is on the left side of the machine, which places the operator between the under-cut face and the machine. The end of the cutter bar was just out from under the cut and the controller about seven feet from the face when a piece of coal broke off the face and struck Pete. --- Union Pacific Coal Company Employes’ Magazine, Dec 1942 Death of Norton Lee The sudden death of Norton Lee, the son of the former Purchasing Agent of The Union Pacific Coal Company, W. K. Lee, now deceased, was a great shock to his many friends here. Mr. Lee entered the Wyoming General Hospital Saturday morning November 7th, to undergo an emergency appendectomy, death resulting from embolism at 11:20 the same morning. Mr. Lee was a widely known and popular Rock Springs business man, and for twenty years had been agent for the Texaco Company here. Mr. Lee was born in Rock Springs, February 20, 1897. He moved to Cheyenne with his parents, and attended the Cheyenne schools, and was a student at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden at the outbreak of World War I. He enlisted in May, 1918, and served ten months overseas, seeing combat in many major battles, including Chateau Thierry. At the close of the war he located in Rock Springs. He was an active member of the American Legion, Archie Hay Post No. 24, and of Rock Springs Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M. He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Howard Knudsen, Carolyn and Jean Lee; and one son, John; as well as by two sisters and one brother. The sympathy of The Union Pacific Coal Company employes is extended to the family. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 1, 1942 Man’s Skeleton Is Found Near Creston The skeleton of a man was found north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks three miles east of Creston Friday and reported Sunday to Coroner J. Warden Opie of Sweetwater county. John Gonzales and Andrew Sondoval, herders for the A. Murray Sheep company, made the discovery. The skeleton may be that of John Smith, a herder who disappeared a year ago while herding sheep on the range between Rawlins and Wamsutter, Opie said yesterday. There were no identifying marks on the skeleton, but an investigation will be made in an attempt to establish identification, the coroner’s office states. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 1, 1942 Funeral Services For Ernest Kruse To Be Wednesday Funeral services for Ernest Kruse, 59, Sweetwater county resident for 36 years, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wildermuth mortuary chapel. Rev. A.L. Jones of the Episcopal church of the Holy Communion, will officiate. Interment will be made in Mountain View cemetery. Kruse died suddenly of a heart attack Saturday noon as he was going to dinner at his residence at the Rock Springs Butchering company’s packing house a mile west of the city. He was employed at the packing house by his brother-in-law, Otto Schnauber. Mrs. B.C. Cook, daughter of Mrs. Kruse, arrived in the city last night from her home in Oakland to attend the services. The Schnauber packing house will remain closed all day Wednesday, Otto Schnauber said yesterday in announcing plans for the funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 1, 1942 BODY OF PROMINENT SPRINGS YOUTH RETURNED FOR BURIAL The body of Method Blasko, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blasko, 902 Sixth street, who died at 7 p.m. Saturday in a Rochester, Minn., hospital, arrived on an early train this morning, accompanied by a sister, Regina Blasko and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Ben Blasko. Other members of the family who were in Rochester are returning by car. Mr. and Mrs. Blasko, accompanied by their daughter, Regina; their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Blasko, and Cyril Blasko of Cheyenne, left Friday afternoon when advised that Blasko had suffered a relapse from an operation performed several weeks ago and that his condition was serious. The party reached Rochester at 7 a.m. Sunday. Blasko was thought to be recovering satisfactorily, and had written of his plans to return this week to Rock Springs. Method Blasko was born March 16, 1917, in Rock Springs. He was graduated from the local high school and attended college at Pullman, Wash. Shortly after the United States declared war he enlisted with the aviation cadets and passed his examinations with high honors. He was accepted and placed on the reserve list. Blasko worked at the Union Pacific railroad freight depot for several months until he was called to report for active duty on August 18, at the aviation cadet training school near San Antonio, Texas. He was honorably discharged from the army air corps when it was found that a growth in his nose prevented continuation of his flight training. Method was advised that an operation would correct this condition and, with his heart set on being a flier, he went immediately to Rochester to undergo the operation that later resulted in his death. Blasko was popular in the younger social set and in church circles. He was prominent in athletic activities, taking part in the Twilight league softball games played here several years ago. He and his twin brother were named for the patron saints of the North Side church, St. Cyril and St. Methodius. Survivors include his parents, his twin brother, Cyril; two other brothers, Ben and Charles Jr., and two sisters, Regina and Louise. Tentative funeral services have been set for 9:30 Thursday morning and will be held from the North Side Catholic church. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 3, 1942 SPRINGS BARBER DIES WEDNESDAY Phil Norgren, 58, a barber in Rock Springs for several years, was found dead in his living quarters adjoining his barber shop at 538 North Front street, shortly after noon Wednesday. He had been dead several hours when his body was discovered. Norgren was last seen alive shortly before midnight Tuesday. Coroner J. Warden Opie was notified and took charge of the body. Investigation revealed that death was due to natural causes. Norgren is survived by a brother, C.A. Norgren, of Denver who has instructed Coroner Opie to ship the body to Centerville, S.D., birthplace of the dead man, and where a sister, Mrs. A.J. Struble, resides. Besides at least one brother and one sister, it is understood that Norgren is survived by a daughter. Norgren had lived in Rock Springs for at least seven or eight years. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 3, 1942 LADORE CANYON PIONEER WOMAN DIES TUESDAY Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, 94, a resident of the Ladore canyon country 90 miles south of Rock Springs, died at the Wilson cabin on the Stanley Crouse ranch near Greystone, Colo. at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. She was the mother of Mrs. Florence Wilson, whose husband is a rancher in the Ladore country. The Wilson family, including Mrs. Graham, had gone from their ranch home to the Crouse ranch where their children could attend the Ladore school this winter and where they owned a cabin for the purpose of accommodating the family during the school months. During previous winters Mrs. Graham, herself, had taken care of the Wilson children at the cabin while they attended school, but because of failing health was unable to do so this year. Mrs. Graham died while eating her breakfast. She was born in Scotland July 12, 1848. Besides Mrs. Wilson she is survived by three other daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Bross of McAllester, Okla.; Mrs. Anna Morgan of Atoka, Okla. and Mrs. Mary Raey of Long Beach. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Ladore school house followed by burial in the Ladore cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 4, 1942 Skeleton Thought That Of Herder Missing For Year The skeleton of a man which answers to the description of John Smith, 60, sheepherder who disappeared June 15, 1941 from his sheep outfit owned by the Savage Sheep company, was found at 10 a.m. November 27, by Andrew Sandoval and John Gonzales, herders who work for the A. Murray sheep outfit of Rawlins. The skeleton was found near Woods Cut, about 3 miles east of Creston and 700 yards north of the railroad track. Clothes included a gray and blue checked shirt with pearl buttons, Levi-Strauss overalls over blue serge pants and a sun-faded dark grey hat with small brim. The man had no teeth, but an upper plate was found in the shirt pocket. The clothing answers to the description of those worn by Smith when he disappeared from his outfit, at that time located several miles from the West Piker Filling Station and about twenty miles from the Carbon and Sweetwater county line. After Smith’s disappearance 200 men searched in this vicinity for two days but could find no trace of the missing herder. After the report of the finding of the skeleton, Sheriff M.J. Dankowski and Warden Opie, coroner, both of Sweetwater county left Sunday for the scene of the discovery and after an examination reported that death was due to natural causes. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 4, 1942 Mrs. John Fister Dies Thursday Mrs. Ella Fister, 47, 406 Walnut street, died Thursday night at the Wyoming General hospital. Mrs. Fister, who has suffered for many years with a heart ailment, is survived by her husband, John. Funeral arrangements have not been made. The body is at Wildermuth mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 5, 1942 Rock Fall Kills 2 Reliance Men John J. Vase, 41, prop puller, and Mike Krpan, 32, machine runner, were killed instantly by a fall of rock in the Union Pacific Coal company’s No. 7 mine at Reliance about 11:15 a.m. Friday morning. The men were moving a pan line back in the seventh south entry when the rock fell. Other miners, who were working near Krpan and Vase, escaped the falling rock. The accident was investigated by officials of the safety department of the U.P. Coal company and by Coroner Warden J. Opie. Opie said that an inquest would be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Rogan mortuary by a jury composed of Raymond Essry, Alfred Sherwood and Earl Wyant. Vase, who resided at 102 Blair avenue, is survived by a wife and several children. He started to work for the Union Pacific Coal company in 1915, later moving with his family to Superior where he was employed by the Rock Springs Fuel company for a number of years. He returned to work for the U.P. Coal company in 1935. Krpan worked for the U.P. company for 15 years prior to last July, when he quit for four months, returning to its service on Nov. 25. He is survived by his wife and a son, 8, and a daughter, 6. Krpan, who is a nephew of Steve Krpan, 117 L street, and his family resided at Number Three camp. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 5, 1942 Early Day Resident Of Hannie Dies In Pasadena HANNA, Dec 4 (Special)—Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Millie While, 74, of Pasadena, who died there Wednesday of this week. She had been in ill health for many years and in June of this year she fell and broke her leg. Since then she has been confined to her bed, never fully recovering from the accident. Mrs. While will be remembered by her many friends here, having made Hanna her home for more than 30 years, leaving here with her two sons to make her home in California about 20 years ago. Her husband, the late Job While, was a victim of the 1903 Hanna mine explosion. She leaves two sons, John and Job While and two granddaughters, all of Pasadena, besides numerous other relatives and many friends. She is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Louise While of this city. Funeral services and burial will be in Pasadena. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 5, 1942 Wyoming Sailer Dies When His Boat Turns Turtle BOSTON, Dec. 4 (UP)—A sailor from Cody was listed as missing Friday after a navy Liberty boat capsized in Narrangansett bay of New Port, R.I. The tragedy occurred Tuesday night but details were not revealed by the first naval district until Friday. The missing Wyoming youth is Fireman First Class W.E. Martin of Cody. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 8, 1942 Accident Victims’ Funerals Today and Wednesday Funeral services for Mike Krpan, 32, Union Pacific Coal company miner who was killed by a fall of rock in the Reliance No. 7 mine Friday, will be held at 11 a.m. this morning at the Congregational church. The Rev. Keenan Sheldon will officiate. The body will be shipped from the Rogan mortuary tonight to Longmont, Colo., for burial. The funeral of John J. Vase, 48, the second victim of the accident, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Greek Orthodox church with Rev. P. Pappas of Pocatello, officiating. Burial will be in the city cemetery. The body of Vase will be taken to the family home at 102 Blair avenue at 10 a.m. Wednesday, to remain until the funeral hour. The accident that claimed the lives of the two men was investigated Saturday night before a coroner’s jury that brought in a verdict of “accidental.” The jury was comprised of Raymond Essry, Alfred Sherwood and Earl Wynant. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 8, 1942 ANSELMI RITES ARE SET FOR WEDNESDAY A.M. Funeral services for Max Anselmi, resident of the city for 40 years, who died Saturday evening at Wyoming General hospital, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday from the South Side Catholic church with the Rev. S.A. Welsh officiating. The rosary will be said at 7 o’clock tonight at the Wildermuth mortuary chapel. The funeral procession will leave the mortuary for the church shortly before the funeral hour Wednesday morning. Born in Brez, Tyrol, Austria, Nov. 6, 1875, Anselmi came to Rock Springs at the age of 17 years. He is survived by a son, Albert Anselmi of 721 N street. His wife and daughter preceded him in death. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 9, 1942 Superior Man Dies At His Home Tuesday William E. Ferrell, 61, of Superior, died suddenly at his home there yesterday morning. He had reported as usual for work, but shortly afterwards returned to his home, complaining that he was not feeling well. A heart attack caused his death shortly afterwards. Ferrell had been in the employ of the Union Pacific Coal company since November, 1922. He is survived by his wife and three stepchildren, Nick Moser and Mrs. William Edwards of Superior and Catherine Moser, a teacher in the Casper schools. He also had several brothers and sisters but none of them resided in the Rock Springs area. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 9, 1942 Victor Smith To Be Buried Here This Afternoon Victor Smith, 80, of Kemmerer, pioneer resident of southwestern Wyoming, will be buried in the Smith family plot in Mountain View cemetery here this afternoon following funeral services in Kemmerer this morning. Smith came to Wyoming in 1886, pioneering in the building of Rock Springs, Hanna, Cumberland and Kemmerer. In the early days he was associated with Thomas A. Jones of Rock Springs in the lumber business in Rock Springs, Green River and Superior. He left Rock Springs 24 years ago and since then resided in Kemmerer. Several years ago he turned over his business in the Smith Brothers Furniture store and a Kemmerer garage to his sons, who now operate the two businesses. Smith was a charter member of the Kemmerer lodge of Odd Fellows and was one of the oldest members of the order in Wyoming. At one time he was a member of the Rock Springs lodge. He was born in Sweden Aug. 28, 1862. Smith is survived by his widow, two sons, Arthur and Clarence of Kemmerer, and two daughters, Mrs. James Middleton of Kemmerer and Mrs. Mike Murphy of Pinedale. He died Saturday at his home in Kemmerer following a prolonged illness. Short services will be held at the graveside this afternoon. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 10, 1942 Ferrell Services To Be Held Friday Morning Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Rogan chapel for William E. Ferrell, 61, who died suddenly Tuesday at his home in Superior. E.L. Gordon, bishop of the Superior L.D.S. church will conduct the services. The body will be taken to Salt Lake City Friday for burial there in the Mill Creek cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday. Mr. Ferrell had resided in Superior for 24 years and he was employed there by the Union Pacific Coal company. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a stepson, Nicholas of Superior and by two stepdaughters, Kathryn Moser of Casper and Mrs. Louise Edwards of Superior. Other survivors include grandchildren Nicholas Moser and Billy Jean and Patricia Edwards and five sisters, Mrs. Matilda Sheppard, England; Mrs. Minnie Bridger, San Diego; Mrs. May Handley, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Lucy Kunkel, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Bessie McCabe of Alhambra, Calif. Mr. Ferrell was a member of the Odd Fellows and of the W.O.W. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 11, 1942 SUPERIOR CHILD KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED WHEN HIT BY AN AUTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT Eleven year old William Glen Cunningham of Superior was killed shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday and Robert Clark suffered a broken leg and head lacerations when they were struck on a dark Superior road by a car driven by Mrs. Lawrence Zelinski of Superior. William and Robert were with their sisters Mary Clark and Betty Cunningham walking from the home of the Donald Shaws, the parents of the Clark children, to the Cunningham home when they were struck. The girls were not injured. The Clark children were accompanying William and Betty part of the way home. In the auto with Mrs. Zelinski were her husband Lawerence and Mike Legerski. The trio was apparently driving slowly, officers say, as it stopped immediately after the accident with its right wheels over the side of a steep ditch. Children and car were going in the same direction and the children’s backs were to the auto, according to testimony of Mary Clark. Mrs. Zelinski immediately summoned Dr. Frank Bertoncelj to treat the children and Deputy Sheriff Dillwyn Ramsay was called to Superior to investigate the accident. Coroner J. Warden Opie conducted a preliminary investigation Wednesday night and Thursday morning and announced that a jury composed of Dan Prentiss, Andrew Menghini and Gus Sturholm will hold an inquest at a later date. William Glen Cunningham was born June 1, 1931, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cunningham of Superior. He is survived by two sisters, Betty and June and his parents. Services will be conducted at the Rogan chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday and interment will be in the Mountain View cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 11, 1942 INFANT SON OF CHESTER ROBERTS DIES THURSDAY Benny Hugh, four-and-one-half months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Roberts, died at 2:15 p.m. Thursday at the Roberts home at 1037 Arapahoe street. The infant had been ill for several weeks. Besides his parents he is survived by a sister, Mary Ann, 4. He was a great-grandson of Mrs. Jane McCourt, Rock Springs pioneer woman who is now at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Jones, in Green River. Benny Hugh was born in Rock Springs July 21, 1942. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Wildermuth mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 12, 1942 Superior Girl, 19, Dies Friday In Salt Lake City Word was received in Rock Springs Friday of the death of Rosalind Battisti, 19-year-old Superior girl, who died in a Salt Lake City hospital that morning. The body will be brought to Rock Springs for interment. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 12, 1942 Roberts Funeral To Be At 3:30 Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Benny Hugh Roberts, four-and-one-half months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Roberts, will be held at 3:30 Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church, with Rev. E.E. Acheson officiating. The body will be taken to the Roberts home at 1037 Arapahoe street Sunday morning. Benny Hugh died at the family home Thursday afternoon following an illness of several weeks. The burial will be charge of the Wildermuth mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 12, 1942 Testimony Closes In Cheyenne Wife Murder Case CHEYENNE, Dec. 11 (UP)—Testimony was closed Friday in the trail of Sergt. Carlton Rufenact of Lodgepole, Neb., and a Laramie county jury Saturday begins deliberations to determine if the soldier is guilty of first degree murder in connection with the death of his young wife, Evelyn. The 23-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by her husband after a wild chase around their Cheyenne rooming house last July 25. Testifying in his own defense Friday, Rufenacht said he had been drinking on the day of the slaying. He said that while he was chaning the clothes of his wife’s baby, he looked up to see her coming toward him with “Something in her hand, maybe a bottle.” He said she hit him on the head. Said Rufenacht: “From then on I remember nothing until I came to two days later in jail.” Rufenacht’s parents came to Cheyenne for the trial. They testified their son had been subject to “spells” all his life when “his mind became unconscious, although he continued to function physically.” Defense Attorney Cludy Zackman contended the soldier was undergoing one of his “spells” during the slaying and that, therefore, he “did not kill willfully, knowingly or with premeditated malice.” --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 12, 1942 Funeral Rites For Accident Victim To Be Sunday Funeral services for William Glen Cunningham, 11, of Superior, will be held at 2:30 Sunday at the Rogan mortuary chapel. Rev. E.E. Acheson of the Baptist church will officiate and burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. William was killed at 9 p.m. Wednesday on a Superior road when he was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Lawrence Zelinski of Superior. Robert Clark, another Superior boy, suffered a broken leg and head lacerations in the same accident. The two boys with their sisters, Mary Clark and Betty Cunningham, were walking along the roadside from the home of the Donald Shaws, parentsof the Clark children, to the Cunningham home, at the time they were struck. An inquest will be held into the accident. William was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cunningham and besides his parents is survived by two sisters, Betty and June. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 15, 1942 Funeral Services For Local Woman Will Be Thursday Funeral services for Rosalie Battisti, 19, daughter of Candido and Josephine Battisti of Superior, who died at 6:35 a.m. Friday in Salt Lake City, will be held at 9:30 Thursday morning at the South Side Catholic Church. The Rev. S.A. Welsh will officiate. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Rogan chapel. Rosalie Battisti was born in Livingston, Ill., July 20, 1923. She later moved to Superior with her parents and attended the local schools there. Fifteen months ago she accepted the position of bookkeeper with the Bamberger railroad in Salt Lake City. Survivors include her parents and a brother Charles Battisti of Superior. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Rogan mortuary. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 15, 1942 Resident of City 58 Years Is Claimed by Death Mrs. Sena Wiggen, 75, died at 8:40 p.m. Sunday at Wyoming General hospital. She had been a resident of Rock Springs for more than 58 years. Mrs. Wiggen was taken ill three months ago and shortly afterwards was taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peter Muir, 35 First street where she remained until the Monday before her death when she was removed to the hospital. Jensine Jensen Wiggen was born July 31, 1867 in West Brondershew, Denmark. She came to Rock Springs, arriving here Oct. 19, 1884, when she was 17 years old. She came to Rock Springs because a cousin, Barney McCabe, after whom McCabe street was named, lived here. On June 12, 1887, Jensine Jensen was married to Sievert Wiggen, the ceremony taking place here. She is survived by two sons, Louis Wiggen of Greystone, Colo. and William Wiggen of Rock Springs; four daughters, Mrs. Muir and Mrs. Matthew Bunten of Rock Springs and Mrs. Chris Jessen and Mrs. Ernest Blunk of Green River. All her children were with her at the time of her death. Her husband died here March 3, 1921. She had a sister in Denmark. She also had 11 grandchildren, four of whom, Louis, Pete and Dave Muir and John Wiggen, who are serving in the armed forces of the country. Mrs. Wiggen often remarked that “wars followed my path in life.” Her father and brothers fought for Denmark, her sons in wars for this country and now her grandsons are in World War II. The Wiggen home was at 108 Thomas street where Mrs. Wiggen resided for 43 years. The funeral will be held from there at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with Rev. Keenan Sheldon of the Congregational church in charge. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery in charge of the Rogan mortuary. Mrs. Wiggen was a member of the Women’s Benefit association of this city. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 16, 1942 Negligence Seen As Causing Cunningham Death A coroner’s jury found last night that Mrs. Kate Zelinski, Superior, was driving negligently when she ran into a group of four children Wednesday night in Superior, causing the death of William Glen Cunningham, 11, and injuring Robert Clark. The jury, composed of Gus Sturhold, foreman; Andrew Menghini and Dan Prentice, established its findings as follows: “As a result of negligence, Mrs. Kate Zelinski was driving a 1942 Chrysler automobile in such a manner as to indicate causing the automobile to strike several children and causing the death of William Glen Cunningham.” No announcement was made after the inquest as to whether any civil or other action would be taken in view of the coroner’s jury findings. William and Robert were walking with their sisters, Betty Cunningham and Mary Clark on a dark Superior street, when the quartet was struck. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 16, 1942 MINE ACCIDENT CLAIMS 3 LIVES 10 OTHERS SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN MAN TRIP FALLS FROM TRESTLE The most serious coal mine accident of several years in the Rock Springs area brought death to three miners and serious injury to 10 others, three of whom are in critical condition, Tuesday afternoon when the out-coming, day shift, man-trip of the Peacock mine failed to stop at the mine portal. Mike Karamonas and C.D. Masters were killed almost instantly by the freak accident and William Miteff died a short time later at Wyoming General hospital. All of the men injured were seriously hurt. John Demshar suffered a badly fractured leg and possible other injuries, George Sprunot, chest and possible internal injuries and August Picinilo suffered a fractured pelvis. All of the other injured, Joe Survis, John Asikainen, Nick Megas and Anthony Pavloff, suffered broken bones with the exception of K. McCormick and Joe Naglich who, upon preliminary examination, appeared to be suffering only from bad sprains, lacerations and shock. The accident occurred at 3:30 p.m. when the loaded man-trip returning with approximately 100 men of the day shift failed to stop at the entrance of the mine and rolled up onto the switching trestle where it crashed into the stop blocks. When the trip struck the blocks it had sufficient momentum to tear away about 50 feet of the trestle allowing the first six cars of the trip to crash 40 feet to the ground. Two cars hung on the edge of the broken trestle. Eye-witnesses and men riding the trip said that they noticed as the trip neared the surface that it wasn’t slowing for its usual stop and a number of the men began climbing and jumping off as soon as it was possible after the trip reached the open. Jumping off became more and more dangerous as the trip went further up the inclined trestle and the last two men to jump, Demshar and Sprunot were critically injured when they struck a concrete base block about 33 feet below that section of the trestle. The other injured men were unable to climb off in time and rode with the trip on its careening plunge over the end of the trestle. Timbers, rails, men and pit cars hit the ground almost simultaneously. Uninjured miners and outside workers gave first aid and took the injured into nearby buildings as quickly as possible and every doctor, ambulance and first aid squad available were called to attend the disaster victims. Louis La Salle, mine superintendent; J.W. Vittitow, federal mine inspector and J.M. Sampson, state coal mine inspector, were upon the scene immediately and assisted in the rescue work before they began conducting their preliminary investigations of the possible causes of the accident. Henry (Pat) Patton, who was running the giant electric hoist on its fatal trip, told authorities that the manual control of his machine became stuck and that the trip had hit the stop blocks before he could pull the switch to shut off the electric current to the engines. Ed Hansen, one of the eyewitnesses of the tragedy, was riding on the trip as it approached the mine portal and joined with a group of men who, he said, clambered and fell off the trip as soon as it had reached the open. Others, he said, were handicapped in jumping by a waist-high guard rail on either side of the trestle and one of the men killed in the fall rode over the end of the crashing trestle perched on the forward edge of the leading pit car where he absorbed the full impact of the two crashes—when the cars struck the stop blocks and when the entire edifice and the cars fell to the ground. J. Warden Opie, coroner, said an inquest would be held and State Mine Inspector J.M. Sampson and J.W. Vittitow, federal coal mine inspector, stated that a complete investigation would be launched immediately. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 18, 1942 Coroner Conducts Autopsy On Sailor Off Train County Coroner J. Warden Opie Thursday night supervised an autopsy on the body of Alfred A. Mann, about 35, of Marion, Ohio, after he had been called to Green River to removed the body from Union Pacific train No. 22. Mann was found dead Wednesday night shortly after the train left Granger junction. Mann was traveling in company with about 40 young sailors from the U.S.S. San Francisco. A Rock Springs soldier on board the train with the group said that Mann had been drinking heavily during the day and that it is possible that that fact may have had something to do with the sailor’s death. Mann, a newly recruited sailor, was en route to Marion, Ohio, to spend a furlough. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 18, 1942 Joe Jackovich Dies Thursday Joe Jackovich, 67, of 334 M street, died at 12:15 a.m. yesterday at the Wyoming General hospital. He had been ill for more than 22 months. Born in Jugoslavia in 1875, Jackovich came to Rock Springs 39 years ago. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; one son, Pvt. Steve jackovich, who is stationed with the U.S. armed forces in San Francisco, and five daughters, Mrs. Verne Sather, Mrs. George Marushack, Mrs. Aldo Bertagnolli, Mrs. William Shalata, all of Rock Springs, and Frances Jackovich of Denver. He had six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements, in charge of the Rogan mortuary, will be made today. --- Green River Star, Dec 18, 1942 Mother Of Local Woman Dies In Kemmerer Hospital Mrs. Lon Purdy, mother of Mrs. George Ryan of Green River, died Monday morning in the Kemmerer hospital following an operation. Mrs. Purdy has visited in Green River many times with her daughter and has many friends here who learn of her death with sorrow. Mrs. Ryan has been with her mother during her illness. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 19, 1942 Jackovich Funeral To Be Held At 9:30 Monday Funeral services for Joseph Jackovich, 67, will be held at the North Side Catholic church at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Rev. Albin Gnidovec will officiate. The rosary will be said at the Jackovich home at 334 M street at 6:30 Sunday evening and again at 8:30. Jackovich, who had been a resident of Rock Springs for 39 years, died early Thursday at Wyoming General hospital. He had been ill for 22 months. He will be buried in St. Joseph’s cemetery. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 19, 1942 Fire In Kitchen Sends Girl To Springs Hospital Gladys James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry James, 1009 Pilot Butte avenue, is in the Wyoming General hospital suffering from severe burns which she received last night in a fire which started from a kitchen stove in the James home. Her father, Harry James, who has been ill for several weeks and her nephew, Joe Robertson Jr., six months old son of Mrs. Alice James Robertson, were burned slightly. When the fire started, Gladys was making a batch of candy and in a panic for fear something would happen to the baby she raised a kitchen window, fanning the flames to a greater volume. Some passerby seeing the flames turned in the alarm and the city fire department soon was on the scene and extinguished the fire but not before the kitchen was damaged badly. Mrs. James and Mrs. Robertson were working at the Union Pacific Coal company building where they are employed to clean the offices, when the fire occurred. Joe Robertson Jr. is the son of Sgt. Joe Robertson who is reported missing after the fall of the Philippines. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 22, 1942 Mrs. Alfred Leslie Dies Saturday; Funeral Thursday Mrs. Bertha Leslie, 42, wife of Alfred D. Leslie, of Reliance, died at Wyoming General hospital Saturday night. Mrs. Leslie was well known in Rock Springs and Superior where the Leslie family previously lived. She was born Sept. 14, 1900 in Elberfield, Ind. She and her husband and son moved to Superior July 4, 1929 and came to Rock Springs in December 1936. They lived here until two months ago when the moved to Reliance. Besides her husband she is survived by a son, Alfred of LeMoore, Calif., one grandson, her father, Leonard Baily of Salt Lake City and two brothers, John and Cecil Bailey of Rock Springs. Her father is in the city and her son is en route here for the funeral. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the First Baptist church with Rev. E.E. Acheson officiating. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 22, 1942 Coletti Services Will Be Held On Wednesday Funeral services for Louis Coletti, 70, prominent Lincoln county rancher, who died Sunday morning at the home of his son here will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic church in Kemmerer. Rosary will be said at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening at the Lincoln county mortuary. Mr. Coletti, who had been in ill health for several years, had lived in the Sublette area west of Kemmerer, for forty years. Other survivors besides his widow are three sons, James of Kemmerer, Joe and Louie of Sublette; three daughters, Mrs. Matt Bertagnolli of Kemmerer, Mrs. Matt Feloni of Nugget and Mrs. Max Creaer of Ogden, Utah; three sisters and five brothers. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 22, 1942 Marian Ann Sharp, 4-Year-Old Child, Dies Sunday P.M. Marian Ann Sharp, four and one-half-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp, died at Wyoming General hospital at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Death was caused by leukemia. The child had been ill for two months. Marian Ann was born in Rock Springs in April, 1939. She is survived by her parents, two brothers, John and Robert, and two sisters, Joyce and Janice. Her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lawson and Mrs. John Sharp, also survive. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 22, 1942 McCrann Funeral Will Be Held at 11 A.M. Wednesday Funeral services for Bessie Hunter McCrann, 42, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the L.D.S. church. Bishop Cecil James will officiate and burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. McCrann died suddenly on Saturday morning at her home at 804 Walnut street. She had lived in Rock Springs since 1930. Her father, John Hunter Sr., made his home with her. Two of Mrs. McCrann’s brothers, George Hunter of Lander and Stephen Hunter of Ogden, arrived in the city over the weekend, after they had been notified of her death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 23, 1942 Edward Mackey Dies Suddenly Tuesday Morning Edward E. Mackey, 56, died suddenly of a heart attack at about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at his home at 516 Dewar drive. Mackey was a miner for the Lion Coal company and had gone to work yesterday morning but returned to his home shortly after 11:30 when he felt ill. He had complained of not feeling well Monday night when Mrs. Mackey doctored him for a cold. When he reached his home yesterday morning he went directly to the basement to change his work clothes. When he did not appear upstairs in a few minutes, Mrs. Mackey went to the basement and found him dead. She summoned medical assistance, but it was determined that he had died only a few minutes after entering the basement. Mackey had lived in Rock Springs for 28 years. He was born May 11, 1886, in Harma, Finland. He is survived by his wife, Hilda, and a son, Arvo Mackey; one brother, Charles and a sister, Mrs. Elyer Hahpo of San Pedro, Calif. Two sisters reside in Finland. Funeral services are in charge of the Rogan mortuary. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 23, 1942 Pneumonia Takes Life Of Miner Frank Pelto, employee of the Colony Coal company, died early Tuesday morning at the Wyoming General hospital. Death was attributed to double pneumonia by his physician. Pelto was said to have lost several days’ work recently because of a severe cold and was admitted to the hospital Saturday night. Nothing had been learned late Tuesday regarding Pelto’s relatives, and county officials were attempting to contact them. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 24, 1942 Pinedale Man Dies at Hospital Here Allen Penton, 60, of Pinedale, died at 7:40 a.m. Wednesday at Wyoming General hospital. He has been in the hospital since Oct. 20. Penton had been a resident of Pinedale for the last three and one-half years where he was employed in the garage business. He was born Nov. 5, 1882 in Forstburg, Cook county, Texas. Surviving are his wife, Rose; one daughter, Mrs. Nan Anderson, and one son, John, all of Pinedale. His mother, Mrs. John Penton; four brothers and one sister, all residing in Texas, also survive him. The body will be taken today to Pinedale for interment. The Rogan mortuary was in charge of arrangements here. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 24, 1942 Bridger Valley Man Dies Here Sunday Henry Stahley, well known resident of Bridger valley, died at Wyoming General hospital Sunday where he had been a patient since the preceding day. Stahley maintained his headquarters at Lyman and was well known throughout the entire valley. He was 67 years old. He was brought to the hospital Saturday by Mrs. Raymond Hooten and Mrs. Joe Powers, of Lyman, accompanied by Mrs. Hooten’s daughter, Mrs. Ralph Daniels of Oakland. The body has been taken to Lyman for funeral and burial. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 25, 1942 Funeral Services For Frank Pelto Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Frank Victor Pelto, 57, who died of pneumonia early Tuesday morning at Wyoming General hospital, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Rogan mortuary chapel. Ivar Hiibacka will officiate and interment will be in Mountain View cemetery. Pelto’s son, Arvo Frank Pelto, of Mullin, Ida., is in the city for the funeral. Another son, George Victor Pelto, is serving in Alaska with the U.S. armed forces. They are the only survivors. Pelto was born in Finland Dec. 17, 1885, and had lived in Rock Springs for the last 23 years. He was employed by the Colony Coal company at the time of his death. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 25, 1942 Mackey Funeral To Be Sunday At 2 P.M. The funeral of Edward Mackey, 56, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Rogan mortuary chapel. Mackey died of a heart attack Tuesday at his home at 516 Dewar drive. Although he had complained of not feeling well for several hours previous to his death, he reported for work as usual that morning at the Peacock mine of the Colony Coal company but returned to his home shortly after 11:30 a.m. He was in the basement of his home changing his clothes when he suffered the heart attack. Mackey was born May 11, 1886 in Harma, Finland. He had lived in Rock Springs for 28 years. He is survived by his wife, Hilda; one son, Arvo; three sisters and a brother. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 25, 1942 Miner Injured at Sweetwater Dies in Hospital George Bartsulas, an employee of the Gunn-Quealy Coal company for the past ten years, died about 9:30 o’clock Thursday night at the Wyoming General hospital from injuries sustained last Saturday morning at the company’s Sweetwater mine. He was unmarried and up to a late hour last night nothing could be learned by The Rocket regarding the man’s living relatives. Bartsulas’ duties at the Sweetwater mine were to care for the maintenance of machinery. While oiling some of the mine equipment at 7:45 a.m. last Saturday, his shirt sleeve was caught in one of the gears dragging his right arm into the machinery. Taken to the hospital immediately after the accident, physicians found it necessary to amputate the arm and Bartsulas’ condition has been serious since the operation. County Coroner J. Warden Opie said an inquest probably would be held in a few days. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 29, 1942 Bartsulas Rites To Be Wednesday At Greek Church The funeral of George Bartsulas, 47, will be held from the Greek church at N street and Pilot Butte avenue at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Rev. P. Pappas, Greek priest of the Pocatello church, will officiate and burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Bartsulas died at Wyoming General hospital Christmas eve of injuries incurred in a mine accident a the Gunn-Quealy Coal company’s Sweetwater mine Saturday, Dec. 19, when his arm was caught in a tipple machinery that he was oiling. His arm was amputated a few hours after the accident. Bartsulas was born about 1895 in Pyrgns, Greece. A brother, Emanuel Bartsulas, his only relative in this country, arrived in Rock Springs Sunday from Milwaukee and will remain here until after the funeral. --- Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Dec 29, 1942 Gust Maki Dies Sunday; Funeral To Be Wednesday Gust Maki, 58, died at the Wyoming General hospital Sunday where he had been a patient for one day. He had been in failing health for nearly four years and resided at the home of his brother, Eli Maki, at 721 O’Donnell street. Maki was born in Kuortana, Finland, in 1884. Before coming to Rock Springs four years ago he was employed by the Standard Timber company’s tie camp west of Big Piney and later near Evanston. He was unmarried. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 Wednesday at the Rogan mortuary chapel and burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. ---