James L Park
James L Park, 75 years old, Lamont 89er died Sunday morning at the home of his son, E.E. Park, road contractor
808 East 17th Street. Park homesteaded in Grant County, near Salt Fordk and later moved to Lamont. He was a farmer
and rural mail carrier until his retirement about ten years ago. Besides his brother here, the aged man is survived
by his wife and another son, Lawrence Park of Tulsa; a daughter Mr. R. E. Reese. Kansas City, Missouri; and a brother,
Shelby Park of Portland, Oregon. Services will be held at the Hahn Funeral Home at 2 pm Monday.
[Source: Daily Oklahoman, October 17, 1932, Page 4]
Apollo Soucek
Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test
pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea- (38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930);
of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired
lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched
the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters.
[Source: Time Monday, Aug. 01, 1955]
Nellie Winona Myers
Obit: Nellie Winona Myers, 89, a homemaker,
died Saturday, June 4, 2005, at Windcrest Care Center in Abilene,
Texas.
Nellie Myers was born on May 11, 1916, near Survey, Nebraska, to Jesse Jerome & Dollie (Rowe) Myers. She married
Ray Myers, of Wakita,
Oklahoma, on March 30, 1935. They moved to McPherson, Kansas,
and then spent the war years in Wichita, Kansas. After WWII they moved to a farm near Mulvane,
Kansas where she resided for 55 years, until
the death of her husband on August 28, 2002. She then moved to Abilene, Texas, to be with her son and his family.
She was preceded in death by her husband and all of her brothers and sisters. Survivors include: one son, James
A. Myers and his wife, Julie of Stephenville, Texas; three grandchildren,
Margaret Hoogstra and husband, Bill of Eula, TX, James B. Myers, and wife, Linda, of Abilene, TX, and Dwayne Myers of Stephenville, TX;
and five great grandchildren, Janna Hoogstra, Hal Hoogstra, Holly Hoogstra, Rachel Myers, Bruce Myers.
[Source: Lacy Funeral Home obituary - Submitters Name:
Kyle M Condon]
John Simmons
Died
At Medford, Oklahoma, June 8, 1911, John Simons, aged 66 years. He was a brother of L. Simons, and the father
of Samuel S. and Jasper Simons of this city. He had five other sons as follows: John T., Isaac, Leonard, Peter
and Nicholas.
[Friday,
June 9, 1911 The Eugene Daily Guard (Eugene, OR) Submitted by Jim
Dezotell]
Edgar Brain Dead.
Well Known Newspaper Man Expires Suddenly at Pond
Creek.
Oklahoma, and especially Grant county, has lost a well
known newspaper man and good citizen in the death of Edgar Brain, editor of
the Grant County News, at Pond Creek, who expired in that city yesterday
morning from heart disease. Mr.
Brian’s illness was sudden and his demise unexpected. A few days ago, the Oklahoma editor
came to Wichita on business, and apparently in the best of health. While in the office of Dr. St. John,
conversing with that gentlemen, he was stricken and it was with difficulty he
was revived. Mr. Brian was then
taken to the home of his brother, Emory Brian, the well known Wichita
musician, and by careful treatment, his condition was improved. Tuesday night,
Emory Brain took the Oklahoma man to his home in Pond Creek, leaving him at
the Rock Island station at his request that the Wichita citizen might return
home on the north bound train.
After reaching his residence, Edgar Brain became worse and word reached
Wichita that he expired yesterday surrounded by the immediate members of his
family.
The name of Edgar Brain was not an unfamiliar one by
any means in Oklahoma. He was
identified with the advancement of the territory and his paper reached the
homes of many citizens in Grant county and adjoining counties. While it is undoubtedly true that
the efforts of the average
newspaper writer are not appreciated, yet Edgar Brain had his friends and many
of them in Oklahoma, who are this day condoling with the members of Mr.
Brian’s family in the hour of sadness.
It
was Mr. Brain’s belief that he had partly recovered from his sudden
affliction, and he would have years of usefulness in his beloved territory,
writing his weekly grist of “stuff,” and participating in the affairs of his
commonwealth. Death is no
respecter of persons and the end to all earthly things came to Edgar Brain
rapidly and untimely, to the sorrow of neighbors, friends and causal
acquaintances. The Eagle has
known Mr. Brain for many years, and it extends it sympathy to the bereaved
family. ---- Thursday Morning, Wichita Eagle.
Mr. Brain is a brother to Mrs. G. S. Astle and is well
known in this community by many, who will be surprised to hear of his sudden
death.
Haven Weekly Journal - Haven, Reno County, Kansas - Saturday, October 24, 1903 - page – front *** column – 3
[Submitted by Rose
Stout]
