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Obituaries and Death Notices
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H.W. Brandt
Wm. Brandt Succumbs To Sudden Illness
H. W. Brandt, 52, farmer residing west of Boise City since 1929, died Sunday in a Lamar, Colo., hospital after submitting to an operation for a stomach ailment.
Mr. Brandt was apparently in good health until he was stricken suddenly two weeks before his death.
Funeral services were conducted at the Boise City Methodist church Wednesday by the Rev. Arthur Pape, Lutheran pastor here, and burial was in the Garrett cemetery under direction of the Wilson Funeral Home.
The obituary follows: Heinrich Wilhelm Brandt was born January 17, 1886, at Hollige, Germany. He was baptized in early infancy and was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in that country.
[Boise City, August 11,1938 - Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Calvin G. Cleland
County Pioneer Dies In California
Word has been received in Clayton of the death of Calvin G. Cleland of Whittier, Calif., well known early pioneer of this section. He served for years as foreman of the 101 ranch east of Kenton, but left this section about 30 years ago to make his home in California. His death occurred July 18 and interment was in the Whittier cemetery.
He is survived by three brothers and three sisters; two brothers, Chas. E. and James A. of Los Angeles, a sister, Mrs. Bessie Hayes of Modesto, Calif., the others living in the east.
His wife preceded him in death about a year ago. He was a Spanish-American war veteran.
The report of his death was received by Mrs. Al Baker of Clayton, old friends of the family in pioneer days. —Clayton News.
[Boise City, August 25, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Donald Colvin
Meets Tragic Death Sunday Donald Colvin Is Victim of Fishing Accident
Donald Colvin, 23 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Colvin of this city, came to his death suddenly Sunday morning at the Two Buttes, Colo., lake when the family car in which he was sitting and which was parked alongside the lake shore, rolled down the sloping bank into the water.
The family had gone to the lake for an outing and when Mrs. Colvin, who had been sitting in the car with Donald, left the car to help Mr. Colvin straighten out his fishing tackle, the car started to roll. Mr. Colvin made a desperate effort to hold the car back but the momentum it had gained was too great and it rolled some 35 feet from the shore before coming to a stop in about 15 feet of water. He suffered severe cuts and bruises in his attempt to stop the rolling car.
Sterling Graham and Hurley Henson, who were fishing nearby, heard the screams and rushed to their aid. Mr. Colvin had become exhausted and was helped to the shore. Mr. Graham dived down to the car but due to a vacuum inside the car and pressure from the outside, he was unable to open the doors or to break the glass. The car had stopped on a steep incline, however, and the rear of the top was near the surface. A hole was cut in the top and the body was removed to a boat brought to the scene by R. C. Best, custodian at the lake.
Artificial respiration failed to remove any water from the lungs of the victim, and it is believed he died of shock or heart failure before the car filled with water.
Clyde Hubbard, Earl Ross and Wesley Brown of Liberal, and a young man from Johnson, Kans., also assisted in the attempted rescue. The car was pulled from the lake Sunday night with a tractor.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon by Dr. T. F. Rudisill at the Wilson, Funeral Home here and interment was in the Tyrone cemetery.
The following obituary, by Dr. T. F. Rudisill, pastor of the Methodist church here, was read in the service:
It is a great thing to leave this work And yet I cannot think that it is an especially frightful thing.
True, we make a plunge into the unknown, which is so far, appalling. And yet, even that is some-thing of a fiction. We do not know a great deal about the matter after all. We know Christ, which is to know pretty much everything necessary to know. We know what He is and what He can do for us, what He can be to us, so that if we knew all about the City and the river and all the Paradisaic figures it would not add much to our knowledge.
It comes indeed to this, that our plunge into the unknown is plunging into a sea of knowledge and understanding and comprehension. The same sea we have been sailing in before, only in a coasting way. And certainly the God that made the seas, does not forsake the far traveller in the call of death.
Donald Edwin Colvin was born at Tyrone, Okla., May 16, 1915, and lived there with his parents until he was one and one-half years of age. At that time his father was transferred to Elkhart, Kans., where the family lived six years, after which business called them to Manter, Kans., two and one-half years. They moved to Boise City 13 years ago, and have been with us since that time, where Donald has been known and loved by a long list of friends and neighbors. Donald enjoyed friendships, and was regularly in the classes of his Sunday school of late years, where he took interest in the study of the lessons. He enjoyed traveling with his parents, and had a good appreciation of nature about him as he rode. His many friends will miss him on the streets and in town in his familiar walks.
He leaves his parents in the shadows, waiting until the silent messenger calls them to the reunion of the family. One brother died 24 years ago, and is buried in Tyrone.
[Boise City, September 1, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
J.A. Higgins
DEATH TAKES J.A. "BLACKIE" HIGGINS
J. A. Higgins, Santa Fe pipefitter, and known over both the Western and Colorado divisions as "Blackie Higgins of the water service," died suddenly in the division offices in Dodge City Monday as he was preparing to leave for Boise City on a company trip.
Higgins had not been well recently and had been off work part time, but had been working fairly steadily and was not considered in a serious condition. Physician said he suffered a heart attack.
Having loaded everything needed for the Boise City trip, Mr. Higgins went to the division offices, and had just stepped into the division engineer's office. He had drawn a glass of water from a cooler, and was holding it, while joking with Howard Wormington, when he fell. He died within a few seconds, the office staff said, although they attempted to revive him with first aid efforts until a physician could reach him. He was well-known here, having equipped all the Santa Fe wells on the new line from here to Las Animas, and worked here for the company on many different occasions.
He was 47 years of age, and is survived by his widow and one daughter.
Higgins went to the division offices, and had just stepped into the division engineer's office. He had drawn a glass of water from a cooler, and was holding it, while joking with Howard Wormington, when he fell. He died within a few seconds, the office staff said, although they attempted to revive him with first aid efforts until a physician could reach him.
[The Boise City News, Boise City, July 14, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Mrs. Wm. H. Murray
Wife of Former Governor Dead
Mrs. Wm. H. Murray, 63-year-old wife of the former governor of Oklahoma, died Sunday at Oklahoma City.
Services were held Tuesday at the graveside at Tishomingo.
Mrs. Murray has been seriously ill since July 16 with a gall bladder ailment.
[Boise City, September 1, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Chas. A. Parker
A pioneer of Cimarron County passed away.
Chas. A. Parker of New Cambridge, Mo., died very suddenly at the home of a neighbor and life-long friend, Mm. Molly Odonell west of town Thuraday afternoon, July 28th.
Mr. Parker was identified with the Lingo Coal Mining Company and had been for many years. He look an active part in the life of the community and especially school affairs.
Funeral service! were held at the home of a daughter, Mrs. H. S. Jobson at 2:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon, July 31., with interment in the New Columbia cemetery, by the side of his wife and a daughter who had preceded him in death. The funeral was under the direction of the Gilland Funeral Home.
The deceased was born in Ohio September 22, 1858, coming with his parents to New Columbia at the age of 14 years. Ha was united in marriage to Harriet A. Jones, September 21st, 1878. To this union were born four children: Mrs. Mary Maness and Geo. Parker, of Boise City, Oklahoma; Mrs. H. S. Jobson of Bucklin, Mo., and a daughter, Iona, who died at the age.
[Boise City, August 18, 1938 - Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Mary J. Ruyle
Guymon Woman Dies In Street Accident
Mary J. Ruyle, aged resident of Guymon, died Tuesday from injuries received when she waa struck by a car on Main street Monday night.
Joseph Costner, Guymon youth who was driving the car at the time of the accident, was cleared of responsibility for the accident in a hearing before Texas county officers.—Panhandle Herald.
[Boise City, July 28,1938 - Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Anna Steinberger
Car Accident Brings Death
Anna Steinberger Succumbs To Wreck Injuries
Injuries sustained in an automobile wreck on 38 highway near the B. McPhetridge place six miles southeast of Boise City Monday afternoon by Mrs. Anna E. Steinberger, proved fatal last night in a hospital at Clayton.
Mrs. Steinberger, 76 years of age, had been in ill health for several years and was returning from Clayton, where she had been for medical treatment, when the accident occurred.
A grandson, Norman Steinberger, who was driving the car, attributed the accident to a blowout. The car turned over twice, and the top was badly smashed. Norman received several ugly cuts and bruises on his head but his injuries are not considered serious.
Mrs. Steinberger sustained head injuries and severe shock, and while no bones were broken, she was severely bruised about the chest and shoulders. Pneumonia, which developed yesterday, was given as the direct cause of her death.
Norman and Mrs. Steinberger, the only occupants of the car, were enroute to the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Aydelott, where she made her home. A son, Glenn Steinberger, father of Norman, resides in Boise City.
Funeral services have been announced for 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Union Chapel school, by the Wilson Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Marella cemetery.
[Boise City, September 1, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
Charles Arther Twombly
GRIGGS, Okla. - Charles Arther Twombly, 94, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1996.Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Marella Methodist Church at Marella with Dyton Owen officiating. Burial will be in Marella Cemetery at Marella by Cimarron Mortuary at Boise City.Mr. Twombly was born in Lone Wolf, Okla. He moved to Cimarron County in 1906 and attended local country schools. He then attended and graduated from Goodwell High School. He farmed and ranched after graduation.He married Irene Husky in 1927 at Guymon. They lived on a ranch in New Mexico from 1950 until 1960, when they returned to Cimarron County. He was on the school board while in New Mexico and in Plainview, Texas. He was a rifleman and enjoyed hunting.He was preceded in death by his wife and an infant son, Lloyd E. Twombly.Survivors include two sons, Louis T. Twombly of Montrose, Colo., and Arthur L. Twombly of Texhoma, Okla.; a daughter, Reta May Boggess of Amarillo; and a brother, George Twombly of Stratford.
[Amarillo Globe News - submitted by Gene Phillips]
Cecil White
Youth Killed In Highway Accident
Vici Lad Smothers Under Overturned Load of Peaches
Cecil White, 18, of Vici, Okla., was smothered to death Saturday night on Colorado Highway 59 between Springfield and Lamar when a truck load of peaches upon which he was riding, turned over and pinned him underneath.
In the truck were Mr. and Mrs. Claude White and two sons, Raymond and Cecil, the victim; Mr. and Mrs. Dee Holmes and John Moss, all of Vici. Mrs. White, Mrs. Holmes, and the two boys
were riding on a mattress atop the load when the accident occurred.
The driver of the truck dozed, it is understood, causing the truck to leave the road and turn over, pinning the four under the load of peaches. The two women and Raymond White were able to extricate themselves, but Cecil had died of suffocation before he could be rescued.
Others in the truck were not seriously injured.
Chas. Shaw of Vici, returned the body to Vici Sunday.
[Boise City, September 8, 1938 -- Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
