Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, October 6, 1955 Adams County, Ritzville, WA ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ ==================================================================== This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sue Gardner sueboo18@hotmail.com ==================================================================== Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, October 6, 1955 Schafer Rites Are Conducted Funeral services for Henry L. Schafer were held Friday at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home parlors with the Rev. Alfred Carter officiating. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Schafer, who died early last week at Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, was born in Russia in 1871 and had lived in the Ritzville area 49 years. He was a member of the German Methodist church. Surviving were four daughters, Mrs. Anne Schafer of Washtucna, Mrs. Alice Williams of Spokane and Mrs. Marie Creel and Nora Stuhr, both of Seattle; and seven brothers, Ted Stuhr, Harry Schafer, jr., Nick Schafer, Dan Schafer and Lawrence Schafer, all of Ritzville. Also surviving were 19 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Funeral Is Held for Wollenberg Members of Masonic Lodge 101 of Ritzville conducted graveside services here Monday for F. F. Wollenberg of Edwall. Wollenberg, widely known in this area, had been a member of the Ritzville lodge for more than 50 years. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Wollenberg was survived by his widow, Elsie, at the home; and by a daughter, and two sons in California. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, Oct. 13, 1955 None Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, October 20, 1955 None Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, October 27, 1955 Kanzler Rites Are Conducted Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday for William W. Kanzler, 68, at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home with the Rev. R. Kirschenmann officiating. Kanzler was born in Russia. He died at Warm Springs, Mont., Saturday. He was a resident of Chester, Mont., and a former resident of Ritzville. He was a member of the Eagles lodge in Spokane and a member of the IOOF No. 58 and Zenobia Rebekah lodge in Ritzville, and was a veteran of World War I. He is survived by three sisters, Irene Kanzler, Elsie Hoefel and Martha Moon, all of Ritzville; and four brothers, Carl and Lothair Kanzler of Montana, Arthur Kanzler of Lind and Reinhart of Olympia. Burial was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Early Teacher Dies At Home NORWALK, Conn. - Mrs. Annabel Huston Krelwitz died at her home here Oct. 2 following a paralytic stroke suffered the previous week. She was a sister of Mrs. Mary Martin of Ritzville, Wash. As a primary school teacher at Aitkin, Minn., Mrs. Krelwitz once taught the 3 R's to Mrs. Clarice Thiel, former Journal-Times bookkeeper, and Mrs. Thiel's brothers. Mrs. Krelwitz was born in Minneapolis in 1877 and was graudated from Moorhead State Teachers college before teaching at Mora, Duluth and Aitkin. Funeral Services Conducted for Former Hatton Resident HATTON - Word was received Monday that Mrs. Orpha Newbill, who worked for the C. R. Williams' for three years, had passed away at the Tri-State Memorial hosital in Clarkston Sunday. She is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Dean Buttrey and Mrs. Grace Pierstorff of Clarkston, Mrs. Carrie Burnsides of Canada, Mrs. Elsie Brinkley, Osborn, Idaho, and Mrs. Belle Engelhardt of California, and numerous friends. Funeral servcices were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Merchants funeral home at Clarkston. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 3, 1955 Funeral Held Here Monday for Pioneer Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Margaret Kister, 86, were held Monday at the Philadelphia Congregational church with the Rev. R. Kirschenmann officiating. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Kister, who died Saturday at the Davis nursing home in Spokane, was born as Anna Bautruss on Sept. 8, 1869, in Walter, Russia. She was married in 1888 to John Kister and the family moved in 1900 to Walla Walla. After two years there the Kisters farmed in the Ritzville area until they retired in town in 1928. The husband died in 1935. Mrs. Kister lived here until 1953 when she moved to Millwood to live with one of her sons, Harry. About a year later she moved into the nursing home. Surviving were three daughters, Mrs. Gust Wahl of Moses Lake, Mrs. Norman Anspauch of Walla Walla, and Mrs. Freida Dugger of Portland; and three sons, Henry, George and Harry, all of Millwood. Hazen and Jaeger funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Ex-Resident Dies OLYMPIA - Mrs. Fred Gottschalk died at her home Tuesday. She is a former resident of Ritzville and is survived by two sisters, Mrs. E. C. Pflugrath and Mrs. J. B. Ottmar. Funeral services will be held Friday. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 10, 1955 Rites Held for Longtime Resident Here Funeral services for Maggie Oestreich, 69, who died Friday in the Adams County Memorial hospital, were held Tuesday at Trinity Methodist church with the Rev. Alfred Carter officiating. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Born in Russia, Mrs. Oestreich came to the United States 65 years ago and had lived in the Ritzville area 51 years. She and her husband, Chris J., who survives, observed their 50th wedding anniversary two years ago. Mrs. Oestreich was a member of Trinity Methodist church. Also surviving were five sisters, Mrs. Katie Kiehn of Tacoma, Mrs. Lydia Kiehn of Bremerton, Mrs. Leona Butler of San Diego, Mrs. Rachel Greenwalt of Portland, and Mrs. Hannah Sather of Tacoma; three brothers, Henry B. Schafer of Tacoma, Ruben E. Schafer of Friday Harbor and Leslie Schafer of Tekoa; and two grandchildren. Danekas and Duncan funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Funeral Held for Mrs. Fink Funeral services for Anna O. Fink, 72, of Spokane, former Ritzville resident and widow of longtime Ritzville businessman, were held Wednesday at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home with Archdeacon Rowland Hills of Spokane officiating. Burial was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Fink, who died Saturday in Spokane, was a member of the Espiscopal church here and the Ritzville PEO. Surviving were two sisters, Mrs. Helen Griffith of Spokane and Mrs. Nellie Harris of Seattle; a brother Joseph Olson of Spokane, and a sister-in-law, Edith Olson of Spokane. Funeral Held Last Friday at Olympia OLYMPIA - Funeral services were held for Mrs. Fred Gottschalk, nee Mary Stueckle, at the Mills and Mills chapel Friday afternoon with the Rev. Dave Carlson, pastor of the Assembly of God church, officiating. Burial was in the Masonic cemetery. Mrs. Gottschalk died at her home in Tumwater Tuesday, Nov. 1. She was born in South Dakota July 8, 1892, and was married to Fred Gottschalk at Ritzville in 1941. The family moved to Walla Walla in 1946 and two years ago to Tumwater. Mrs. Gottschalk was a member of the Assembly of God church. Surviving are her husband, Fred, a son, Jack Schaal of Walla Walla; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Greene; and one grandson, Billy Greene of Tumwater. Step-children surviving are Art Schaal, Ann Kanzler and Tena Lobe, all of Olympia; Hilda Greenwalt of Tekoa, Fred Gottschalk of Hermiston, Ore., Anne Dayfluff and Lillian Farley of Tacoma; five sisters, Christina Pflugrath and Barbara Ottmar of Ritzville, Pauline Haase of Odessa, Katie Schrenk of Colfax, and Emma Sauer of Portland; and four brothers, J. J. Stueckle of Waitsburg, Henry Stueckle and Art Stueckle of Colfax, and Christ Stueckle of Lacrosse. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 17, 1955 Henry Bauer Dies Thursday Morning Henry J. Bauer, longtime Ritzville rancher, died Thursday morning at his home following a lingering illness. Funeral arrangements have not been formulated. Bauer was widely known in this area as a lover of horses and as Adams county fair parade marshal for many years. Funerals were Tuesday for Jacob Schaefer, 70, retired railroad worker of Ritzville, and Wednesday for Walter John Steffen, 53, Lind carpenter. Complete obituaries will be published next week. LaGore Funeral Held In Spokane WASHTUCNA - Funeral services were held Tuesday in the Alvin chapel of the Hazen and Jaeger funeral home for Fenton LaGore of Spokane. Dr. Walter Bridge officiated. Burial services were held at Greenwood cemetery with the Eastern Lodge No. 222 F & AM assisting. LaGore was survived by his wife, Iva, and son, Glenn; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. LaGore was a resident of Spokane for 36 years and is well known in Washtucna. Mrs. LaGore is a sister of Mrs. Frank Crofford. Funeral Is Held for John Hatterle WASHTUCNA - Graveside services were held Wednesday afternoon for John Hatterle at the local cemetery with the Rev. Russell Booher officiating. Mr. Hatterle was born in 1817 in Bessarabia. He and Mrs. Hatterle came from Dakota to Hooper where they farmed for many years. Mrs. Hatterle died in 1939. Mr. Hatterle had lived in a nursing home in Spokane the past few years. He leaves no known relatives in this country. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 24, 1955 Covered Wagon Roll Reduced Now to Six The death last Thursday of Henry J. Bauer, 76-year-old Ritzville pioneer, apparently reduced to six the number of survivors of a historic covered wagon caravan which brought 17 Russian-German families westward in 1883. Within a year or two after their arrival in Walla Walla most of these families had homesteaded in the Ritzville area, and today their descendents - many of the Rosenoffs, Thiels, Kanzlers, Amens, Millers, Kiehns, Wolsborns and Bauers - form a paramount population group in this area. The Journal-Times this week conducted a survey and found apparently there are only six persons still living who - as five small boys and a 3-year-old girl - traveled westward with the caravan in 1883. The survivors are Mike Thiel, father of Lawrence Thiel; Mrs. Mike Thiel, the former Mary Kanzler; J. J. Schoesler, who operates Henry Bauer's ranch; Henry Schoessler, father of Mayor H. E. Schoessler; Pete Bauer, Henry Bauer's older brother; and Jacob Rosenoff, who lives in Pullman. The Journal-Times would appreciate hearing from any other persons who may have been overlooked in this list. The covered wagon train left Nebraska under the leadership of Frederick Rosenoff to follow the Old Oregon Trail across the plains. The group never traveled Sundays, but drew their wagons into a circle and posted lookouts while the rest listened to an elder read church services in German. Their overland trip was marked by hardship and a constant vigilance for Indians. The Battle of the Little Bighorn had occurred only seven years earlier. Their train reached Walla Walla safely. Some families preceeded immediately to homestead in the Ritzville area. Others worked at Walla Walla two or three years before joining their friends in Ritzville. Henry Bauer died Thursday on the same Ritzville area farm his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Bauer, had occupied when they reached Ritzville following the 1883 covered wagon journey. Pete Bauer recalled a few years ago how 11 of their 12 chickens were devoured by coyotes the first night they stayed on their new farm. Later that fall all the family's horses disappeared. They were found the following spring near Paha, about 10 miles from home. Jacob Bauer raised 13 acres of wheat the first year, 28 acres the second and more than 100 acres the third. Though life was hard and crop failures not infrequent, the farm gradually "took hold." Through his life Henry Bauer was a lover of horses. In 1916 or 1917 he began breeding his own Belgian work horses and by the 1930s he had developed a prime herd of more than 40 animals. Some weighed a ton, and one of his best beeding stallions weighed 2,400 pounds. Bauer was reluctant to give up horses in the face of increasing mechanization, and according to Elmer Schoesler, who has operated the Bauer ranch for the past 10 years, might not eveng have "gone tractor" in the early 1940s had it not become so difficult to hire labor familiar with work horses. When a Belgian became too old to work, Bauer always retired him to pasture rather than disposing of him. Today one of Bauer's Belgians still survives - a 27-year-old mare named "Laura" - and Schoesler made it clear this week Laura will be well treated until she dies, as Henry Bauer would have wished it. Bauer, who had been five years old when his family crossed the plains, had an inventive mind. About 1918 he devised a straw picker, pulled by four horses, it gathered up loose straw while a gasoline motore ran the straw up an elevator into an accompanying wagon...so pitchforking was virtually eliminated. Bauer applied for a patent on his straw picker, though the machine never went into production. But he used it himself for years. W. G. Danekas, another Ritzville pioneer and a neighbor of Bauers, recalled this week how the straw picker once achieved the remarkable record of clearing half-a-section at Mike Thiel's farm in a single day. Bauer also devised a series of sprockets and chains to operate a harvester reel from one of the harvester's wheels, so the reel would slow down or speed up depending on the harvester's speed. Bauer was widely known as the traditional marshal for the Adams county fair parade, and until three years ago he usually accompanied the state cattlemen's association on their annual cross-country ride to the state convention. Funeral services for the 76-year-old Bauer were held Saturday at Trinity Methodist church with the Rev. Alfred Carter officiating. Burial was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery. The pioneer was survived by his widow, Jennie, at the home place three miles west of Ritzville; a daughter, Mrs. Fern Girton of Ritzville; his brother, Peter, also of Ritzville; and a sister, Mrs. Lydia Taylor of Spokane. Also surviving were four step-children, Mrs. John Stedham of Chehalis, Mrs. Paul Wood of San Francisco, Mrs. Jerry Meehan of Carnation, and Raymond Pinney of Seattle, and two grandchildren. Lewis Hughes Dies In Tacoma; Attended School In This Area HATTON - Word was received Monday of the passing of Mr. Lewis Clark Hughes at his home in Tacoma. He will be remembered in this community as he attended grade school at the Sutton school on Michigan Prairie, attending high school in Lind, graduating in 1918. He then attended Washington state college, graduating in pharmacy. After graduation he worked in drug stores in Spokane and Longview then went to Auburn in 1924 where he became associated with Mr. Clarence Olberg. They operated a drug store in Tacoma in 1927. Mr. Hughes bought out Mr. Olberg and operated the store the last 28 years. He became ill last March and had been confined to his home. A complete obituary will be published in next week's paper. Funerals Here for Five Pioneers Who Total 276 Years in Area Four Ritzville funerals during the past week and a fifth scheduled for this Wednesday has brought to the end of the trail five early-day residents who had lived in Adams county a total of 276 years. Last rites have been conducted for Jacob Schaefer, a 54-year-old resident of Ritzville; Walter J. Steffen, 53, lifelong resident of Adams county; Henry J. Bauer, who lived near Ritzville 71 years; and George H. Miller, a resident of this area for 38 years. A funeral will be held Wednesday for Conrad Adler, who died in Zenith, after having lived here for 60 years. JACOB SCHAEFER Funeral services for Jacob Schaefer, 70, who died at his home Nov. 12, were held Nov. 15 at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home with the Rev. R. Philp officiating. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Born at Bickleton Sept. 25, 1885, Schaefer had lived in Ritzville 54 years. He was a retired railroad worker. Surviving him were the widow, Emma; two daughters, Mrs. M. E. Kuehl of St. John and Mrs. Edward Jingling of Moses Lake; and three sons, William, Gilbert and John, all of Spokane. Also surviving were two sisters, Mrs. Albert Pinnow and Mrs. Henry Heinemann, both of Ritzville; five brothers, Conrad of Post Falls, Ida.; Joe of Spokane; Edwin of Washtucna, and Will and Fred, both of Ritzville; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. WALTER STEFFEN Final Rites for Walter John Steffen, 53, of Lind, who died Nov. 14 in the Adams County Memorial hospital, were held last Wedneday at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home with the Rev. William Houser of Odessa officiating. Burial was in the Lind cemetery. Steffen, was born Sept. 22, 1902, 14 miles from town and had lived in this area all his life. FOr many years he was a meat cutter at Kiehn's grocery in Ritzville. Later he became a carpenter. He was a member of the rural Lutheran church between Ritzville and Odessa. Surviving were a daughter, Janice Steffen of Lind; a sister, Mrs. Martha Hardt of Ritzville; and two brothers, Edward of Prosser and Herbert of Odessa. GEORGE MILLER Funeral services for George Miller, 83, who died Friday in the Adams County Memorial hospital, were held Monday in the Zion Congregational church with the Rev. R. W. Rieger officiating. Burial was in Ritzville Memorial cemetery. Born in Kolb, Russia, on Dec. 5, 1871, Miller came to the United States 55 years ago and had lived in the Ritzville area the past 38 years. A retired farmer, he was survived by four sons, Alex and Frank of Ritzville, George of Tacoma and John of Portland, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. CONRAD ADLER Final rites for Conrad Adler, 65, who died Sunday in a Masonic home in Zenith, were scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home with the Rev. Alex Rehn and members of Ritzville Lodge 101, F & AM., in charge. Adler was born in Russia on May 27, 1890, but came to the United States as a baby and lived in the Ritzville area 60 years before moving to Zenith. A member of the Ritzville Masonic lodge, he was survived by three daughters, Mrs. Elda Howard and Mrs. Frances Storosky, both of Bremerton, and Neomi of Brooklyn. Also surviving was a son, Conrad Leroy Adler of Tacoma; two brothers, George Adler of Ritzville and Dr. H. F. Adler of Medical Lake; a sister, Mrs. John Olson of Spokane; and two grandchildren. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, December 1, 1955 Funeral Set for Schoesler Funeral services for Jacob J. Schoesler, 78, who came westward in a covered wagon in 1883, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Zion Congregational church with the Rev. R. W. Rieger officiating. Schoesler, a retired wheat rancher, died Tuesday. He was a member of Zion Congregational church. Born in 1877 in Nebraska, Schoesler came to Walla Walla in 1883 and to the Ritzville area four years later. Surviving were a son, Elmer of Ritzville; two brothers, Henry of Ritzville and John of Astoria, Ore.; a sister, Mrs. Fred Thiel of Astoria; two grandsons, James and Gerald, both of Ritzville; and two great-grandchildren. Hughes Rites Are Conducted At Tacoma HATTON - Funeral services for Lewis Clark Hughes, 52, who died Nov. 21 in Tacoma, were held at Tacoma with burial in the same city. Born March 28, 1903, at Dyer, Hughes and his brothers and sisters were raised in the Hatton area, living with their uncle, W. W. Yiesley, from 1908 until the family moved following the death of their father, Oliver Hughes. Surviving were the widow, Ethelwyn, whom Hughes married in 1929 at Auburn; two daughters, Mrs. William (Ida Mae) Wilson of Tacoma and Mrs. Robert (Shirley) Fisher of Seattle; and four sisters, Mrs. Wilbur (Leona) Morrison of Auburn, Mrs. Harry (Nancy) Aumack of Spokane, Mrs. Harvey (Zema) Fearn of Boseman, Mont., and Mrs. Dell (Bernice) Crow of Snohomish. Also surviving were three brothers, Commodore of Kennwick, Verner of Pincher Creek, Canada, and Virgil of Seattle; his uncle, W. W. Yiesley; and several nieces and nephews. Cousins living in this area are Mrs. Elmer Huse, Glenn Eckelberry and Walter Ashcraft of Lind. Mrs. Whitney Funeral Held at Spokane SPOKANE - Mrs. Kathleen Whitney, 70, a longtime resident of Ritzville, died Sunday in Spokane. Funeral services were scheduled for Thursday morning at St. Aloysius' church. Born in Wisconsin, Mrs. Whitney arrived in Ritzville in the late 1880s as a small girl. Her maiden name was Kathleen Hallin. She was graduated from Washington state college and the Chicago Conservatory of Music. In Ritzville she taught piano lessons for many years and formerly operated a motion picture theater in what is now Slim Weber's garage. Mrs. Whitney and her husband, John M. Whitney, moved from Ritzville to Spokane 23 years ago. At the time of her death she was a music teacher at Lakeland Village. Previously she had served four years as soloist at Our Lady of Lourdes cathedral. She was survived by her husband and a brother, B. O. Hallin of Yellowstone National park. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, December 8, 1955 Mrs. Harrison Victim Friday of Accident WASHTUCNA - Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Harrison, acout 30, of Washtucna, are scheduled Thursday at 1 p.m. at the local church, according to the Rev. Russell Booher, pastor. The Rev. Paul Hamlin of Lacrosse will officiate. Burial will be in the Colfax cemetery, the Rebekah lodge in charge. Mrs. Harrison, en route to Washtucna after delivering her two small sons to the Kahlotus school bus, was killed Friday morning when her car was struck by a special Spokane, Portland and Seattle freight train at Sperry, about six miles southeast of here. Nearing the tracks, she had evidently seen the approaching train and slammed on her brakes but skidded an estimated 66 feet on the icy downhill grade. Her car came to rest on the tracks and was catapulted by the train against a nearby metal sign post which was sheared off by the impact. Mrs. Harrison was hurled through the windshield and died almost immediately. Her body was taken to Pasco. The husband, Ed, a prominent cattleman, was on a business trip to Idaho and could not be located immediately. The family home is near Palouse Falls state park. The two boys, Steven and Pat, are the only children. Mrs. Harrison was a member of Emerald Rebekah lodge at Washtucna. Besides her husband and two sons, she is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Wilbourn, Riparia; two brothers, Richard, Pullman; and James H. Wilbourn, Riparia; and two sisters, Mrs. William Swanda, Riparia, and Mrs. Melvin Logan, Kennewick. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, December 15, 1955 None Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, December 22, 1955 Lind Resident Is Victim As Train Hits Pickup LIND - Funeral services for Christian (Whitey) Krehbiel, 42, who was killed when a Northern Pacific passenger train struck his pickup in Lind Sunday morning, were held Tuesday afternoon at the Lind Methodist church with the Rev. W. H. Ritchey officiating. Burial was in the Lind cemetery. Krehbiel, a lifelong resident of Lind, was killed when his light green 1951 GMC pickup was struck by Northern Pacific eastbound No. 2 about 7:25 a.m. Sunday. The accident occurred at the highway 395 intersection in Lind. The pickup, its box torn away, ended up still on its wheels on the south side of the tracks 133 feet from the intersection. Krehbiel remained in the vehicle but apparently was killed almost instantly. He received a crushed chest and head injuries. Though the highway approaches to the intersection was covered by packed snow and ice and were extremelyslippery, exactly why Krehbiel's pickup found itself on the railroad tracks with a train approaching has not been determined, according to prosecuting attorney Ernest R. Whitmore, jr. Whitmore said Monday there were apparently no eye witnesses to the accident other than the victim and the engineer and fireman on the train. The engineer, Fred Norling of Pasco, told Whitmore Monday that Krehbiel presumably was approaching the tracks from the Lind business district. Norling said he saw nothing of the pickup until he observed its front portion - apparently stationary - on the tracks a moment before the collision. Norling said the train, which does not normally stop in Lind, was traveling between 38 and 40 miles an hour at the time of the accident. Whitmore was unable immediately to contact Harvey Thompson of Pasco, fireman on the train, who was sitting on the left-hand side of the diesel engine cab and may have observed Krehbiel's approach to the crossing. The train stopped in Lind following the accident but had continued toward Spokane before Sheriff Clint Rowe, deputy sheriff Mark Leighton and Whitmore arrived shortly after 8 a.m. A mechanic, Krehbiel became Adams county's seventh traffic fatality of 1955. Surviving were the widow, Kathleen, and two school-age children, Jeffrey and Sally. Danekas and Duncan funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Father-In-Law Dies Ralph E. Dyar, Spokane author and newspaperman who died Thursday at the age of 71, was the father of Mrs. Alice Bier, who is married to Phillip Bier, son of Mrs. Amanda Bier of Ritzville. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Bier live in Seattle. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, December 29, 1955 Funeral Friday for Urquhart, Pioneer Northwest Grain Man LIND - Residents of Lind and the surrounding community are this week mourning the passing of one of its pioneers, Allen John Urquhart, 66, who succumbed following a heart attack early Monday, Dec. 26. "Allie" Urquhart, accompanied by Edgar Phillips, also of Lind, left Sunday by auto for Pasadena, Calif., to attend the Rose Bowl game. They reached Klammath Falls, Ore., that evening and stayed to spend the night. Early Monday morning, Mr. Urquhart suffered a heart attack and was taken to the Hillside hospital at Klammath Falls where he passed away at noon. He is survived by one son, John Douglas Urquhart; a grandson, John Douglas, jr., and a granddaughter, Geraldine Gean, all of Lind. Mr. Urquhart was born on April 17, 1889, at Cumberland, Wis., the son of Finley and Elizabeth Willard Urquhart. The family came to this area in 1889 and homesteaded near Schrag, Wash. After graduating from Lind high school in 1909, he attended Washington state college where he studied engineering. He worked as a local surveyor on the Milwaukee railroad during its construction in Adams county, and farmed with his father, later joining the Union Elevator and Warehouse company as a bookkeeper in 1916, a firm of which his father was one of the original founders. In November, 1917, he was united in marriage to Geraldine Flynn at Fort Lewis. She preceded him in death on April 10, 1942. After serving in France during World War I with the 346 Field Artillery, Battery F, Mr. Urquhart returned to Lind and became manager of Union Elevator and Warehouse company, a position which he held until his death. A pioneer grain man, and an ardent leader in the development of grain trading practices, he was one of the founders of the Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers Association. In addition, he had served as a member of the Lind town council, was a member of the Washington State Game board, and was currently on the advisory board of the Washington State Fish and Wildlife commission. Mr. Urquhart was a member of the Presbyterian church, and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the American Legion. Devotions will be conducted at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home chapel in Ritzville on Thursday evening at 7:30. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:00 at the Lind Methodist church, with the Rev. William H. Ritchey officiating. Interment will be at the Fairmont cemetery in Spokane following the church services. Pallbearers were Harry E. Snead and Clarence Wahl of Moses Lake; Frank LeFriec of Spokane; Harry Kasper, Edwin L. Longmeier and Fred Beck of Lind. Mrs. Gwinn Funeral Held WASHTUCNA - Graveside services were held Saturday, Dec. 24, for Mrs. Ben Gwinn, 83, who died at her home in Kalispell, Mont. Her husband preceded her in death many years ago. She is survived by five children, Charles, Ivey, Eva, Mamie and Peggy. The Gwinns formerly lived on a ranch near Washtucna. Mrs. Gwinn had lived for many years where her daughter, Mrs. Ray (Peggy) Dars of Kalispell. Funeral services were held at the Danekas and Duncan funeral home in Ritzville. Two daughters, Peggy and Mamie and a son, Charley of Pasco, attended the funeral.