LANDER NV Archives Obituaries.....[JUREY, William T. 2/1939]
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Reno Evening Gazette
Friday, February 3, 1939
Page 8, Col. 1


Jurey Funeral Service Held

	Battle Mountain - Nev., Feb. 3, Funeral services for William T. 
Jurey were held from the St. Andrews Poiscopal church Saturday afternoon 
with the Rev. B. Leo MeMate reading the service Deaconess Helen Hill sang 
two solos with Mrs. Myrtle Eads at the organ.

	William Thomas Jurey, seventy-three, a native of Cornwall, England, 
came to Lander county with his parents at the age of twelve years and had resided 
here continuously for a period of sixty-two years.  The family first lived at Copper 
Canyon, where the English Mining Company are operating the property now owned 
by the Copper Canyon Mining Company, later they moved to Galena when the mines 
of that district were opened.  Mr. Jurey began his life work of a miner at the age of 
fourteen years and followed that occupaton until a few years ago when his health 
began to fail.

	Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Celia Jurey, three daughters, Mrs. Jennie 
Taylor of Reno, Mrs. Paul M. Knoll and Miss Elsie Jurey of Battle Mountain, and 
three sons, William T. Jurey, Jr. of Venice, Calif., and James and Sam of Battle Mountain; 
also one brother, Joseph Jurey of Battle Mountain as well as several grandchildren 
and a number of nieces and nephews.

	The pallbearers were C.L. Good, L. A. Lena--, Andrew Kinneberg, Andrew 
Berg, Ernest Johnson and J. W. Phelps.  Interment was made in the local cemetery.