Hansford County Obituaries

Hansford County, Texas

Obituaries

Sophas Brandzik

Hansford County
Dallas Morning News 1932-03-20
Searchers find Body of Fanner, Gruver, Hansford Co. Texas. March 28 - Searching parties Monday found the body of Sophas Brandzik, 65, Hansford County farmer, who died from exposure Saturday night soon after he had abandoned his stalled truck in Cold water Creek. Searchers found the body sprawled face down in a pasture about three miles from the truck. Weakened by a recent attack of influenza. Brandzik had collapsed about one mile from shelter, a vacant farmhouse. Discovery of the body ended a search that was assuming large proportions. Searching parties organized at Texhoma. Goodwell and Guymon. Ok., and in Hansford County had been working since Saturday night. They were joined by pupils of the Gruver School, taught by. Brandzik's daughter. Miss Helga Brandzik. Brandzik was caught in a late spring blizzard that swept this section for several hours Saturday night. A terrific north wind and wet snow made travel on foot hazardous. Brandzik has been a resident of Hansford County twenty-five years.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}

George Akins

Dallas Morning News 1907-07-07
Hansford County Killing
Homesteader Meets Death by Bullet Through the Neck
Guthrie, Ok., July 6 - Just across the line from Texhoma, Ok., in Hansford County, Texas, yesterday, George Aikins, a homesteader, was shot through the neck and instantly killed by a neighbor, it is claimed, following a quarrel between the two because certain hogs had trespassed in Simmons' alfalfa field. It is claimed that Aikins approached the line fence with a rifle and seeing him Simmons opened fire, killing Aikins the first shot. Aikins' wife and only child are visiting in Scotland at the present time, but his death was cabled to them.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}

William McClellan

Dallas Morning News 1949-121-11
Airplane Crash Fatal to Pilot Near His Home
Spearman, Texas, Dec. 10 - William McClellan, 49, prominent Spearman and Hansford County resident, was killed Saturday when his new 4-place plane crashed in a pasture one mile west of Spearman, in the Panhandle. The burned and twisted wreckage of the plane was found in a fence corner abut a mile from the airport from which he took off about 7 a.m. The plane crashed on his brother's ranch. There were no witnesses. McClellan and his nephew, Roy Lee McClellan Jr., owned the plane. McClellan was born in Hansford County. He was a buinessman, farmer and rancher, was a past president of the Spearman Chamber of Commerce, a charter member and past president of the Lions Club and chairman of the Boy Scout committee. He owned the McClellan Chevrolet Company, the McClellan Krause Implement Company and the McClellan Oliver Implement Company and farms and rances in Texas and Oklahoma. The Civil Aeronautics Authority is investigating the crash.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}

William Katterman

Dallas Morning News 1906-10-03
Fatal Jealousy of Horse
Guthrie, Ok., Oct. 2 - William Katterman of Hansford, in Beaver County, while feeding two pet horses was kicked to death by one of the animals, which suddenly became jealous of Katterman's attentions to the other. Both hind hoofs of the animal struck Katterman squarely in the stomach.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}

Orrin J. Brown

Chair Claims Wife's Slayer
Dallas Morning News 1942-06-15
Huntsville, Texas, June 15 (Monday) - Orrin J. Brown, 56, died early Monday in the electric chair at the state penitentiary. Brown, who was sentenced in Hansford County, was charged with murdering his wife. The current was applied at 12:03 a.m. and he was pronunced dead at 12:11 a.m.

J. H. Wright Dies at Guymon

Dallas Morning News 1915-02-13
Guymon, Ok., Feb. 12 - J. H. Wright, aged 72 years, one of the pioneer settlers and ranchmen of Hansford County, Texas, died after an illness of less than one hour in his office in the First National Bank here at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Wright ahd lvied in Hansford County sicne 1876, and at the time of his death was president of the Hansford State Bank, and was also president of the First National Bank of guymon, Ok., both of which institutions he founded. Interment took place at Hansford yesterday.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}

Thomas L. Dudley

Dallas Morning News 1957-02-28

Funeral services for Thomas Leslie Dudley, 54, a Dallas resident most of his life, will be held at 2p.m. Thursday in the Dudley M. Hughes Chapel, 400 East Jefferson, with the Rev. E. P. Cummings officiating. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery in Ellis County.
Dudley, a former dallas public school system maintance department employee, suffered a heart attack Tuesday while visiting a friend in Spearman, Hansford County, and died en route to a hospital.
He lived at 921 East Waco. He was a member of the Marsalis Park Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife; two stepsons, Lowell Moon of Alabama and Jerry Moon of Dallas; a step-daughter, Miss Linda Moon of Dallas; two brothers, J. R. Dudley of Fort Worth and Robert Dudley of Dallas; a sister, Mrs. Lee Lowrey of Celina, Collin County; his mother, Mrs. J. R. Dudley of Celina and four grandchildren.
{Submitted by Dena Whitesell}