Obituaries

A Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held at the Desert Lakes Golf Course in Fernley on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Arrangements by Neptune Society.

Nevada State Journal
Sunday, September 2, 1973
"Colorful Dayton Deputy Chester Barton Is Dead"

DAYTON, Nev. - George Chester (Monk) Barton, 80, one of the most colorful characters in this part of Nevada, died Saturday at a Carson rest home after a long illness.

During his career he had been a miner, prison guard, garage operator, deputy sheriff and wild animal collector.

He was born July 20, 1893 in Yerington, son of Thomas Barton, a barber who died when Chester was three years old. His mother, Mrs. Emma Nevada Loftus, married Jack Loftus and the family moved to Dayton.

Chester Barton attended school in Dayton and spent his early life working in mining camps, such as Fairview in Churchill County, and in White Pine. He was employed at the Nevada State Prison for several years, then established a garage in Dayton.

He also served as a Lyon County deputy sheriff for 37 years, retiring in August 1966. He was an avid outdoorsman, as a hunter and fisherman, and also collected wild animals for his home-made zoo in his garage. Barton was noted for catching rattlesnakes with his bare hands. He was the prototype for the snake-collecting Dayton garageman featured in author Robert Laxalt's "Man in a Wheat Field."

"Barton was everything to everyone in Dayton," remarked an old-time resident, "amateur doctor, interpreter, protector, benefactor." He had no children of his own, but at Christmas he treated large numbers of youngsters. Barton spoke Italian and Paiute fluently. He was regarded as an adviser and friend of the Indians."

He is survived by his wife, Helen F. Barton of Dayton; nieces Mrs. Thomas (Sparky) Allingham of Reno, Mrs. Don J. Cadwallader, Toledo, Oregon; nephew Rober W. Hankhammer of Phoenix, Ariz.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Capital City Mortuary, Carson City, and internment will be in the family plot in Yerington.

Nevada State Journal
1965-12-27
page 12

Excerpt from "Aunt Minnie's 1885 Dayton Autograph Album, Inscriptions Stir Memories"
by Doris Cavanagh
Special to the Journal

My aunt was born Wilhelmina Gruber. Reared in Dayton, she lived most of her life at Union Hotel until her death in December, 1944.

In August, 1964, her album came to me from Lyon Deputy Sheriff Chester (Monk) Barton son of Mrs. Toots Loftus. During the 20th century, Chester also attended the little stone school house built in 1865.

Chester loved the outdoor and became virtually the town zoo with his accumulation of bottled insects, bird wings, eggs and mounted specimens, snakes wildcats and a red fox. The fox he kept on a chain close to a little den in the ground opposite his home near the entrance to Gold Canyon.

About the size of a composition book, Aunt Minnie's rediscovered "Golden Floral Album' on the first page carries the inscription: "Minnie Gruber, Dayton, Nev., Christmas 1885."

Shortly afterward, her father, J. C. Gruber, died in March 1886. He had owned and operated Union Hotel, established in 1870 with his wife, Caroline Gruber. Charlie Gruber migrated from Missouri to California in 1852 and was attracted in 1860 to what became Nevada by silver in Gold Canyon.

Nevada State Journal
Sunday, Sept. 27, 1925

excerpts from "DAYTON BRIEFS"
G. Chester Barton, proprietor of the Quick Service Garage, returned last week end from a hunting trip spent in Plumas and Lassen counties, Calif. Mr. Barton was successful in killing one deer while on his vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. Cheater Barton, in company with Mrs. A. J. Loftus and Miss Lillie Tailleur were Reno visitors Wednesday.

Among the Daytonites who took in the Pet Parade in Carson City were the Mesdames Eva, Cowdrey, Neils W. Schmidt. James Regan, Jr., and children, Dolly King, the Misses Mary K. L. Scott and Julia Thein. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Scott, Zenas Walmsley, and pet brown bear belonging to Chester Barton, the latter heading the parade.

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Reno Evening Gazette - February 9, 1902
p.3

COL. E. D. BOYLE

DEATH OF COL. BOYLE
A Prominent Comstocker Through With His Task and Gone
The sad news of the death of Colonel E. D. Boyle was received in Reno last night.

Colonel Boyle dies at his home in Dayton of pneumonia. It will be remembered that he was badly hurt in a runaway accident on the road between Como and Dayton a few weeks ago, and his companion was killed in the same accident. For several days it was thought that Colonel Boyle was fatally injured, but he recovered only to be called a little later.

He was sitting with his family a few nights ago in Dayton when he was taken with a severe chill which was followed by pneumonia. He solved the mystery that sooner or later all of us must confront.

Colonel Boyle was, perhaps, as well known as any of the old Comstockers and has been an active man of affairs in western Nevada for over thirty years. He was a mining superintendent and an all round miner of ability. He was operating a mine in Como district at the time of his death.

Colonel Boyle leaves a wife, one son, Emmitt Boyle, and a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was about sixty years of age.

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Reno Evening Gazette - April 5, 1943

MR. FRANCIS E. BUGBEE

Frank Bugbee Dies In Lyon County
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Illness Fatal To Mining Man
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YERINGTON, April 5. -- Francis (Frank) Eugene Bugbee, long-time Nevada resident, mining man and legislator, died at the hospital here Sunday night after an illness of several months.

Born in Ohio seventy-five years ago, he grew up in Kansas and Colorado and came to Nevada during his youth, locating in Mason valley and Dayton where he followed mining for many years. He served as a deputy sheriff at Dayton for a time and was an assemblyman in the Nevada legislature during the sessions of 1931, 1933 and 1937. In the legislative session which closed just a few weeks ago, he served as assistant sergeant-at-arms although he was ill at the time.

In addition to his widow, the former Mabel Lord, whom he married in 1927, Mr. Bugee[sic] is survived by a son, Lyle, a government employee in Texas; a sister, Jesse Callahan of Abilene, Kas.; a brother, William Munden of Abilene and an uncle, Charles Osborn, of Winnemucca. Funeral services will be announced later.

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Reno Evening Gazette
Monday, 1921-02-21
page 8

CAPT. HERMAN DAVIS
Dies Suddenly of Pneumonia

Capt. Herman Davis, one of the men who built modern Nevada, died this morning of pneumonia after an illness of only a few days. He returned from Mina last week and immediately took to his bed. News of his sudden passing came as a severe shook to his friends, only one or two of whom knew how serious his illness was.

As a metallurgist and mining engineer he was known throughout Nevada and in Arizona and New Mexico. He came to this state in 1893 and settled at Dayton, where he bought the Nevada reduction works, which he conducted for years. But he also took a hand in the production of minerals from the ground and was an active worker in Virginia City and other parts of the state. He was in the midst of things at Tonopah and Goldfield, was one of the earliest to engage in the development of Rochester and more recently has held interests at Packard and also at Mina.

The captain had attained to the highest rank in the Masonic fraternity, to which he gave his utmost thought and of the work of which he was a deep student. He was made a Mason soon after he passed his twenty-first birthday, receiving: his degree of Master Mason in Rio Vista lodge, Solano county, California on June 14, 1886. On coming to Nevada he affiliated with Valley lodge at Dayton, of which he subsequently became master. On coming to Reno he joined Reno lodge. He was made a Royal Arch Mason in Virginia City chapter in 1908 and received into the Knight Templar order in DeWitt Clinton commandery of Reno the same year. In 1908, too, he took the thirty-second degree in the Scottish rite, and he was also a member of Adah chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Advancing through all the places and stations of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M., he became grand master of the order in Nevada in 1912 and won a wide reputation both in this state and in other jurisdictions by the energy with which he executed the duties of his office. The American Freemason publication especially commended his work. He was also a member of Reno Lodge of Elks.

Funeral arrangements will not be announced until the arrival of the captain's brother from Sacramento this evening, but it was said this morning that the service will probably be conducted by the Masonic grand lodge.

Herman Davis was born in Isleton, a town on the Sacramento river just below Sacramento, Cal., on January 22,1865. His father was Hugh Davis, a native of Michigan who crossed the plains in 1847 and was one of the earliest of the American pioneers of the Coast, and his mother was a native of Tennessee. His father fought in the Civil War with the Michigan volunteers and was twice wounded in battle. He died at the early age of forty-four, leaving his widow to care for the young family of five children. Herman Davis left school when he was eight years of age and never had a day's schooling thereafter, but he was an earnest reader and student and his self-taught education made him one of the best-informed men in Nevada as well as a speaker and a writer of force and great ability.

He learned the machinist's trade in the Risdon Iron Works at San Francisco and then became a marine engineer and pilot-which is the origin of his title of captain, as he won a captain's certificate as well as one of chief engineer. In 1881-82 he was in Arizona and served with Lawton's volunteers in the fourth months' pursuit of Geronimo.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Thelma Davis: six children Mrs. V. A. Elliot of Packard: Mrs. Carl Horn, Mrs. Frank Kornmeyer, Mrs. Clifford Wiley, Stanley Davis and Herman Davis, Jr., and a brother, Charles K. Davis of Isleton, Cal.

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CAPTAIN HERMAN DAVIS, 1865-1921

In the death of Captain Herman Davis, who died in Reno, February 21, 1921, this Society lost not only a charter member and one of its first vice-presidents, but a true friend and worker. Not only did he give generously of his time in the collection of valuable relics and data for use of the Society, but his own personal collection of mining books, historic guns, and mineral specimens are now on display in the museum of the Society, furnishing an enduring memorial to his wide and varied interests in life.

Captain Davis was born in Sacramento County, California, January 22, 1865. His school days ended with his tenth year, yet he was so persistent and industrious a student, such an omniverous reader of historical and philosophical subjects, that he gave the impression of being a college-trained man. He came to Dayton, Nevada, in 1892, and at once identified himself with mining and milling operations of that section. It was here that he laid the foundation of his accurate and sound judgments of the many branches of mine and mill management.

He built the first cyanide plant in Nevada, and was the inventor and owner of three patents on hydro-metallurgical methods for the treatment of gold and silver ores. During the last years of his life he ably and successfully experted and managed many mining properties in the State. He was well known for his love of little children, and was never happier than when half a dozen of them were climbing over him. He had six of them in his own family, two boys and four girls. As Grand Master of the Masonic Lodges of the State, he proved a wise and capable leader. As a citizen, he took an active part in public affairs, serving for eight years as Justice of the Peace in the town of Dayton. He was intolerant of bigotry in any form, generous and fair in the treatment of men who worked under him, and by his tact and calm unprejudiced judgment, proved himself a real leader of men.

Source:
Nevada Historical Society Papers by Nevada Historical Society
Published by State Printing Office, 1922
Contributed by Kim Torp

Daily Nevada Stata Journal - October 12, 1906
p. 4

MR. A. E. HARRIS

NATIVE NEVADAN IS CALLED BY DEATH
A. E. Harris, Who Spent Last Summer in Reno but Returned to Lower Altitude in California Passes Away There After Severe Illness

A. E. Harris, a native of Nevada, died at his home at Campbell, Cal., Monday evening, October 8th, after an illness of several weeks. The deceased was born in Dayton, Nev., March 18, 1868. He received his early education in the Dayton public school, Napa College, Cal., and the law department of Ann Harbor [stet], Mich. He taught seven years in the public schools of this state previous to his graduation as a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar and elected district attorney of Lyon county. About seven years ago Mr. Harris and family moved to Santa Clara county, Cal, to reside, he practiced his profession in San Jose.

The opportunities afforded by this growing state, attracted him back to Reno last summer. He intended to locate here. Ill health, however, forced him to return to a lower altitude.

His wife, formerly Miss Clara Simpson of Wellington, Nev. and five children survive him. His mother, Mrs. W. G. Harris of Dayton; two brothers, Walter J. of Reno, and Ernest W., of San Francisco; two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Marsh of Grand Junction, Col., and Mrs. A. H. Brower, one of the high school teachers of this city, are also left to mourn the death of an able and good son of Nevada.

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Reno Evening Gazette - April 5, 1933
p. 2

MRS. FRANCES G. HAZLETT

DIED
HAZLETT-Friends are invited to attend funeral services for the late Frances G. Hazlett at the home chapel of the Ross-Burke Company at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning. Rev. Brewster Adams officiating. Internment at Dayton, Nev.

MRS. HAZLETT'S FUNERAL IS TOMORROW
With the last rites of the Baptist church, funeral services will take place tomorrow for Mrs. Frances G. Hazlett, Nevada pioneer, who died Monday [April 3] at the age of ninety-seven.

The services will be held at the Ross-Burke chapel at 10:30 o'clock, with Rev. Brewster Adams in charge. The body will be accompanied to Dayton, where burial will be held in the old cemetery there.

Mrs. Hazlett had lived In Nevada since the early days of the state, and lived in Dayton when that town was a prosperous community on the Carson river.

She crossed the plains in a covered wagon, long before the transcontinental railroad was built, and several years ago she wrote her story of the trip and the early life at Dayton as follows.

"Crossing the plains from northeastern Iowa in a covered wagon, after a sixteen weeks Journey found us at Fort Churchill on the Carson river. Unless one has had the experience, he cannot realize the Joy and relief of feeling that the toil and anxiety is over when at last the Journey's end is reached. At Fort Churchill a company of soldiers was stationed for protection from the Indians and was abandoned about the middle of the '60's".

"We did not stay at Fort Churchill but traveled on to Dayton reaching there the following day Dayton was then the third largest town in the territory. Our mules seemed to realize they were out of the wilderness and showed a disposition to turn in at every open gate, and no wonder, after four months of desert fare".

"We left Iowa bound for California, but finding a good part of California here and everything booming we went no farther than Carson City, where we left six men we had brought as passengers Then we went back to Silver City where we bought into a wood ranch in Eldorado canyon ten miles from Dayton".

"Milling, mining and teaming were the principal businesses of the country. The range east of Dayton was covered with nut pines. One hundred and twenty-five wood teams daily crossed the toll bridge over the Carson river, and from Dayton was distributed to the mines and mills and for domestic use".

"Having a younger brother to care for I went with him up to the wood camp and lived very close to nature until the winter storms came on, cooking for eight men -my House a cloth-covered frame, about ten by twelve, one-half of one side open for a door, my table a big dry goods box" on its side, my chairs apple boxes and molasses kegs, cook stove under a pine tree. In front of the cabin, my room a seven by nine army tent brought across the plains, my bed on the ground, no woman nearer than Dayton-I was never treated with greater consideration or respect".

"Como got its name in 1862. I was present at its birth. The county clerk and county surveyor, Frank Tagliabue, had been up there one day, and at supper at Mother Holmes' restaurant was talking about the new camp Tagliabue was Italian and compared a pond formed by the melting snow, to Lake Como in Italy, saying the surrounding scenery was very similar. The name was then and there adopted, and Como it is to this day".

"In 1862 and '63 there were thirteen hotels and restaurants In Dayton saloons too numerous to mention, five large hay yards', and when Austin was being built' everything was brought from California by those monstrous wagons drawn by from eighteen to twenty-two horses, three wagons, last one loaded with barley for the team They usually camped by the road side, and it was worth while to see them get started in the morning".

"As may be supposed, all sorts and conditions of people were here, good bad and indifferent, as the largest number might be classed 'A man for breakfast' was the usual way of saying in the morning after 'One-Eyed Pete' or 'Texas Jim' or some nameless party had settled a dispute by shooting each other. Gambling everywhere divorces more numerous than today. There were nine cases at one term of court at about this time. This is one side of the story".

"On the other hand, there never were more generous people on earth than these same roystering [sic] men."

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Weekly Nevada State Journal - October 5, 1895
p. 4

DR. J. C. HAZLETT

DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN
Dr. Hazlett Dies at His Home at Dayton

Recorder Shearer received a message from Wallace Coffin yesterday informing him of the death of Dr. J. C. Hazlett at Dayton, Lyon county, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Deceased had an attack of cholera morbus two weeks ago last Saturday from which he did not recover. A week ago to-day he was much better, and Mrs. Hazlett, who visited friends in Reno at that time had no idea that his illness would prove fatal.

Dr. Hazlett came to Nevada in 1862 and located at Dayton, where he practiced his profession. In 1870 he was elected Senator from Lyon county and in 1874 was the Republican candidate for Governor against Governor Bradley, the Democratic nominee. He was twice elected District Attorney of Lyon county. He was prominent in the Masonic and Odd Fellow societies and was Past Grand Master of the latter and Grand Master of F. & A. M., having been elected at the communication of the Grand Lodge held in Reno last June. He was a native of Pennsylvania aged 67 years, and he leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. D. P. Randall of Dayton.

Deceased was a genial, kind-hearted man and had many friends throughout the State. He was in robust health up to a few weeks ago and bore his age well. His funeral will take place from his residence at Dayton at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and the services will be conducted by the Grand Lodge of F. & A. M., and the I. O. O. F.

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Reno Evening Gazette - July 8, 1919
p. 8

MRS. EMMA LOTHROP

DAYTON PIONEER IS DEAD HERE
Mrs. Emma Lothrop, seventy-six years old and a resident of Nevada since 1862, died in Reno today following an illness of a few weeks.

Mrs. Lothrop was one of the pioneers of Dayton and her husband John Lothrop, who survives, was district attorney of Lyon County during the days when Dayton was a thriving little city and the county seat. The family was very prominent in Lyon County. She crossed the plains and settled at Dayton during the boom days of the Comstock.

Beside her husband she leaves seven children. Mrs. Roy Stoddard of Reno, Mrs. C. C. Braun of Dayton, Mrs. James Breen, Mrs. Addie Pepper, and Richmond Lothrop of Reno, Frank Lothrop of Grass Valley and James Lothrop of Sacramento. She was a member of the Dayton Lodge of Rebekas. Funeral services will be held at Dayton Thursday afternoon with Bishop George Hunting officiating.

Reno Evening Gazette Death Notices, Tuesday, July 8, 1919, page 3:

Died
Lothrop - in Reno, July 8, 1919, Emma, dearly beloved wife of John Lothrop of Reno, and mother of Frank Lothrop of Grass Valley and James Lothrop of Sacramento, Mrs. C. C. Brown [sic] of Dayton, Mrs. Jas. Breen, Mrs. Addie Pepper, Mrs. Roy Stoddard and Richmond Lothrop. A member of Dayton Lodge, No. 5, Rebekahs. A native of Pennsylvania. Aged 76 years 5 months and 16 days.

Remains at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Stoddard, 138 Maple St., and will be accompanied by relatives to Dayton Wednesday morning on the V & T. Funeral services will be held in Dayton Thursday afternoon at ? o'clock. Bishop Hunting officiating. Internment Dayton Cemetery

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Reno Evening Gazette - January 8, 1940
p. 14

MR. RUEL E. LOTHROP

RUEL E. LOTHROP, VETERAN LYON CLERK, DIES
Funeral services for Ruel E. Lothrop, Lyon county official for the past twenty-five years, who died at his home in Yerington Sunday morning following a long illness, will be held at the Catholic church in Yerington at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Lothrop suffered a paralytic stroke in December, 1939, and was confined to his bed since that time, although he continued to carry on his duties as county clerk and treasurer. He was born in Dayton, Nev., January 13, 1882, and spent most of his life in Lyon county. His parents, the late Mr and Mrs. Ruel Lothrop, were early Davton settlers, having come to that area in the early 'sixties.

As a youth, Mr. Lothrop worked in the mines of Silver City and Virginia City. He first entered politics in 1915 when Dayton was the county seat of Lyon county. In 1917 he was appointed deputy county clerk of Lyon, and in 1919 he was elected Lyon county assessor. He served in this capacity until 1921, when he was elected Lyon county clerk and treasurer, a post he held until his death.

Mr. Lothrop is survived by his wife, Julia Kelley Lothrop; a son William Lothrop, of Isleton, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. E. C. McQuarne of Reno and Mrs George Pauly of Oakland; a brother, George Lothrop, Washoe county undersheriff, and a granddaughter, Joy Lothrop, of Isleton, Calif.

Mr. Lothrop was first married to Stella Lawson at Silver City. She died in 1922. He is also survived by a step-daughter, Louise Peraguerie, of Yermgton.

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Reno Evening News - September 11, 1930
p. 2

MR. MANLY L. JOHNSON Submitted by Linda Clements

Manly L. Johnson dies in Dayton at 84 years
Manly L. Johnson, who crossed the plains in 1854, died yesterday at his home in Dayton at the age of eighty-four. He was taken ill Friday and owing ot his advanced age, was unable to recover.

He was born in Sycamore, Ill., on October 23, 1846. When he was eight years old he came across the plains with the Wallrod party, first going to the placer diggings in California. After a few years he came to Dayton and when the Virginia & Truckee railroad was built, he built the road from Mound House to Dayton and established a passenger and freight route. He married Miss Mary E. Howe, daughter of a Dayton merchant in 1877.

The gypsum deposit at Mound House was located by Mr. Johnson, but there was no demand for that material then and he later abandoned it. When the Carson & Colorado railroad was completed he entered business with J.R. Sims, T.J.A. Flaws and others, but he later returned to Dayton and became an assayer and metallurgist, associating with "Uncle Joe" Douglas of Virginia City.

While not active in politics Mr. Johnson was greatly interested in the schools and served for many ears as school trustee. He was active in fraternal orders, being a charter member of the Knights of Pythias Odd Fellows and Rebekahs at Dayton transferring his membership when the Dayton lodge was consolidated with others. He was also a member of the Masonic lodge of Dayton which later affiliated with Amity lodge, F&AM of Silver City.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Johnson of Dayton, two daughters, Mrs. Leroy Booth of Reno and Mrs. Ethel M. Roe of Oakland, and six sons, Fred M., Clyde P. and Raymond D. Johnson of Reno, Lawrence and Vernon J. Johnson of Oakland and Mervin C. Johnson of Loyalton, Cal.

Funeral services will be held at Dayton tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock under the direction of Silver City Masonic lodge. Interment will be in the Dayton cemetery beside the bodies of his daughter Annie and son George who died many years ago. George R. Oliver of Carson is in charge of the service.

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The Humboldt Sun - March 13, 2008

MRS. RONDA G. MADEWELL

Ronda Gay Madewell was born Oct. 13, 1944, at Rotan, Texas to Calmer Joseph Johnson Jr. and Enide Temple (Brown) Johnson. The family later moved to Yerington, and farmed there for many years.

Ronda graduated from Yerington High School in 1962. She attended the University of Hawaii for 1 1/2 years. On Nov. 20, 1976, she was married to Wesley Madewell at Faith Lutheran Church in Yerington by the Rev. Emil Leising. To this union was born one child, Forrest. Ronda brought two children to this union from an earlier marriage; Holley and Erik. Wes also brought two children to this union from his earlier marriage; Mark and Jennifer.

After moving to Winnemucca due to Wes' job, Ronda opened The Stitching Post in 1980, a craft and notion store, with Louise Coburn. After the store was closed in 1988 she began working at Zion Lutheran Church as the Church Secretary, and in 1990 as the preschool secretary, thus becoming the office manager of Zion Lutheran Church, Preschool, and Childcare until 2004, helping Zion through relocation and growth.

Ronda was baptized and confirmed into the Christian faith at Trinity Lutheran Church in Watsonville, California on July 25, 1971, and later transferred her membership to Zion Lutheran Church of Winnemucca, spending many years working there, singing in the choir, making several banners for worship, serving on the altar guild, and being a part of many other activities there.

The Church was much a part of her life her last 20 years. Ronda and Wes also met many life long friends while Square Dancing for many years.

Ronda was a cancer survivor for almost 20 years. However. Ronda died of the affects of cancer on Feb. 29 at 6:07 a.m. while a patient at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Tulsa, Okla.

She was preceded in death by her parents; Calmer and Enide. She is survived by her husband Wesley of Winnemucca and his mother Mucie Morton of Yerington, three children, two stepchildren, nine grandchildren, and one great granddaughter. These include Ronda's daughter Holley and husband Marshall Poole and children Rebecca and Tyler of Elko; Ronda's son Erik of Winnemucca and children Andrew, Chandler, and Bradley; Wes' son Mark and wife Margaret Madewell of Manteca, Calif., and children Mark Jr. and Christine, and Christine's daughter, Catalina; Wes' daughter, Jennifer and husband Bill McCollum of Twin Falls, Idaho; and also Ronda and Wes' son Forrest and wife Teri Madewell and children Ethan and Tess of Bakersfield, Calif.

Services for Ronda will be at Zion Lutheran Church in Winnemucca on Friday, March 14, beginning at 4 p.m., and at Faith Lutheran Church in Yerington on Sunday, March 16, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Inurement will be in the Valley View Cemetery in Yerington.

Memorials may be given to Zion Lutheran Church for an outdoor worship garden. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be given to the Cancer Treatment Center of America at www.cancercenter.com

South Carolina Newspaper - December 28, 1917

MR. DAVE RICE

Allendale, Dec. 27. – Dave Rice, a prominent planter of this section, died at Silver City, Nev., December 23, aged about 35 years. For some time his health had been poor and a few months ago he went West for a change of the climate.

Mr. Rice leaves a mother, two sisters and two brothers. He was a young man of high character and deservedly popular and will be greatly missed. His remains are expected to arrive tomorrow.

Transcribed by Marla Zwakman

The Humboldt Sun - December 12, 2007

GERALD ROBERTS

Gerald “Jerry” Roberts was born April 29, 1928, to Liewellyn and Pearl Mae Roberts of Frontier, Wyo. He was the second eldest of four brothers.

Jerry was born tough, and lived a tough life. At the age of 14 he left his parent’s home and began his life as a man. He worked on various Wyoming ranches for his living and in 1945 he joined the Navy. At the end of WW II he was discharged and went back to his love of ranch work.

Jerry was drafted and served with honor as a combat medic in the Korean War; after which he returned again to ranching.

He married Thelma Fern Brush in 1970 and they lived together in Fernley until her death in 1996.

Jerry retired from the Nevada Cement Company after years of faithful service, but he maintained a side business of horseshoeing on the weekends.

Jerry is considered by all who knew him including the “buckaroos” that worked with him throughout northern Nevada for some 30 plus years as “the toughest and the best.” He is well known for his devotion to teaching children proper horsemanship and proper western style dress related to parade competitions.

Not many knew how much he suffered from eczema throughout his life and ultimately contacted rheumatoid arthritis in his hands and feet that prevented him from continuing to shoe horses. This also prevented him from being able to satisfy the insatiable itching from the eczema but he never complained.

When asked how he coped he said, “You play the cards you are dealt.”

Jerry is survived by one brother, Sherman Roberts of Myrtle Creek, Ore.

A memorial service will be held at the Fernley Truck Inn in Fernley on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 10:30 a.m.

The Humboldt Sun - July 2, 2009

MRS. OLGA JEAN SABIN

Jeanne Sabin July 13, 1945-June 24, 2009
Olga Jean was born on July 13, 1945, to Wilbur Schubert and Janet Schubert (Verner) in Berkley, Calif. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Winnemucca where she attended Humboldt County High School graduating in 1963. Before graduating she entered the Miss Winnemucca pageant and was first runner-up. In 1968 she moved to Yerington entered the Lyon County School of Practical Nursing, earned her Licensed Practical Nursing Certificate and went to work for the South Lyon Medical Center. She also spent five years as a nurse for Dr. Judy Hilbish. On Dec. 23, 1977, she married Larry Sabin.

Jeanne then decided to make a change and earned her Certificate as a Nail Technician and worked for Attractions Beauty Salon until 2003. Lyon County Elementary was in need of a nurse and lured Jeanne back where she was the favorite School Nurse until her retirement in January, 2009.

She was past member of the Yerington Soroptimist Club of Yerington and served on the Yerington City Planning Commission from March 1991 to December of 1995. A love of reading, gardening, and working in her home, deer hunting with her husband and cutting wood for the fireplace all brought her great pleasure.

Jeanne was preceded in death by her father Wilbur, stepfather Floyd "Doc" Verner and a brother Gary Schubert. She is survived by her husband of 31 years, Larry; son Jimmie Kendall of Reno; daughter Jana (Vern) Stites of Portland, Ore.; mother Janet Verner of Carson City; sister Nilva (Dave) Wise of Carson City; brother Dennis (Lisa) Verner of Winnemucca; stepsons Tom Sabin of Laguna Beach, Calif., and Mike Sabin of Boise, Idaho; graddaughters Jocelyn Kendall and Crystal Kendall of Reno, Hailey Sabin of Emmitt, Idaho; grandsons Zachary Stites of Portland, Ore., Nicholas and Conner Sabin of Boise, Idaho; great grandsons Dakota, Tanner and Tavian of Reno; two uncles and their wives in Washington as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.

A celebration of Life will be held on Thursday, July 2,2009, at the Yerington High School Practice Gym located on the corner of Pearl and Oregon Street at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations to the Renown Cancer Center, 1155 Mill Street, Reno, NV 89502.

The Weekly Gazette and Stockman (Reno) - June 11, 1896
p. 2

MR. J. R. SHAW

Dropped Dead
J. R. Shaw, a Prominent Odd Fellow Dies on the Street

Friday evening about 7:30 as J. R. Shaw stood in front of O. J. Brookins talking he suddenly fell to the sidewalk. Dr. Roullson [?] and H. M. Martin were the first to reach the prostrated man. They carried him into Brookin's store, but dearth had already claimed him as its victim.

Coroner Peers took charge of the remains and held an inquest, and found that death was produced by heart failure.

Mr. Shaw was a native of Illinois and sixty-three years of age. He was a Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Nevada I. O. O. F. and was a member of Dayton lodge. He was also a member of the A. O. U. W. He was an old resident of Nevada, having been a resident of Dayton, Lyon county, in its balmiest days. He kept a hay yard and did a good business in lumber. About one year ago he came to Reno and opened the Arcade hotel, but shortly after gave it up. He leaves a wife and son.

The funeral took place last Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the hall of Truckee Lodge No. 14, I. O. O. F., in the Cough & Crosby Hall on Second Street.

Contributed by Linda Clements.
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Reno Evening Gazette - September 22, 1890
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GOV. CHARLES C. STEVENSON

DEATH OF GOV. STEVENSON
He Quietly Passes Away, Surrounded by His Many Friends and Relatives

The sad news of the death of Governor Charles Clark Stevenson was received here yesterday morning. He died at 2 o'clock Saturday night. Governor Stevenson had been a sufferer for two months, and about three weeks ago his illness took a serious turn and he has been hovering around deaths door ever since, until death came to his relief, and he peacefully closed his eyes on all earthly cares and his spirit took its flight to realms beyond the skies. Governor Stevenson was born in Phelps, Ontario county. New York, And was therefore 64 years old. He was brought up a farmer and moved to Nevada from Michigan in 1859, crossing the plains with a train that started for Pikes Peak, but subsequently changed their plans. He followed mining, and occasionally took a hand in politics. He was elected State Senator from Storey county in 1865, and again in 1872. He was President of the Slate Agricultural Society during its palmiest days. He was elected Governor in November, 1886, and performed the duties of the office up to within a short time ago. He was always a warm friend of Washoe county and will be greatly missed by his many admirers in this section. As Governor he performed the duties devolving upon him with a steady hand and clear brain, and while he made some mistakes, they were errors of the head and not the heart. He became involved some months ago in litigation with the stockholders of the Kentucky Mining Co., and it wore upon him until his health gave away under the strain and ended in his death. He was always a very enthusiastic supporter of the State University, and the rising generation will have occasion to remember his many acts of kindness for a long time.

THE FUNERAL
The funeral services will take place from the family residence in Carson on Wednesday, the 24th, after which the remains will be conveyed to the State Capitol where, attended by the Carson Guards, they will lie in state until the arrival of the V. & T. express, when, accompanied by his personal staff and some of the State officers, they will be conveyed to Oakland, Cal., for interment. On the arrival of the funeral train here Brigadier-General Booton and staff and the Reno Guards will take charge of the body until the arrival of the overland.

Note: Owned and operated the Stevenson Mill (later Nevada Reduction Works) at the Rock Point site in today's Dayton State Park, Dayton, Nevada.

Contributed by Linda Clements.
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Reno Evening Gazette - March 25, 1932
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MR. MATTHEW TALLIER

MINING MAN DIES IN DAYTON TODAY

Matthew Tallier [sic, Tailleur], well known Nevada mining man, died this morning at his home in Dayton after an illness of a year. The funeral will be held in Reno, but the arrangements have not been completed yet, and will be announced by the O'Brien mortuary.

He was born in Dayton sixty-three years ago and had followed mining all of his life. For more than twenty years he was at Tonopah, working as a timberman for the Tonopah Extension. Recently he returned to this part of the state and had gone to Dayton for a time. His wife died in March, 1931.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Caffrey of Reno and Mrs. Mervin Johnson of Loyalton, Cal. He was a member of Reno lodge No. 14 of Odd Fellows.

Contributed by Linda Clements.
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Nevada State Journal - April 17, 1918

MR. PETER CHRISTIAN WILDER - Submitted by Linda Wilder Shineman

Obit: In this city, April 16, 1918, Peter C. Wilder, dearly beloved husband of Mrs. Mary Wilder and loving father of Vera, Grace and Peter Wilder, Jr. A member of Genoa Lodge No. 12, F. & A.M. and Gardnerville Lodge of I. O. O. F. Aged 62 years 1 month 24 days. Native of Germany.

Funeral arrangements to be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the chapel of Groosbeck & O'Brien, under the auspices of Reno Lodge No. 13 F. & A. M.

[NOTE: The first page of this edition of the Nevada State Journal on April 17, 1918 carried the story of his death by drowning. LWS]