PETERSON, CHARLES & STOLENBURG, LAMONT

TWO FLIERS KILLED

Gove, Kansas, Nov. 2 - Charles Peterson, flying instructor for Pikes Peak Air Commerce, Inc., of Colorado Springs, and his companion, Lamont Stolenburg, a student flier, were killed today when their Eaglerock plane crashed upside down on the farm of George Emerson, four miles southwest of here. (Havre Daily news Promoter (Havre, Montana), November 23, 1929, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

HOLLIMAN, MRS DAVID MOTHER

Mr. and Mrs. David Holliman returned home February 17 from Colorado, where Mrs. Holliman's mother died at Longmont. Funeral rites were held at Gove, Kansas. Mrs. Holliman had spent several weeks in Longmont with her mother prior to her death. (Hamburg Reporter (Hamburg, Iowa), February 26, 1959, submitted Nancy Hannah)

ROEMER, IDA MAE (MRS. WILLIAM)

Mrs. William Roemer

Oakley - The funeral for Mrs. Ida Mae Roemer, 61, Oakley, will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Oakley Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Gove Cemetery, Gove, Kansas. Mrs. Roemer died Monday at St. John's Hospital, Salina, after a short illness. She is survived by the widower; seven children, one of whom is Mrs. Gail Schwartz 2115 Wesley, Salina; three brothers and a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Packard, 320 S. 7th. The Rush Smith Funeral Home was in charge of Salina arrangements. (Salina Jounral (Salina, Kansas, January 18, 1961, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

BIRRER, GEORGE

News from Grainfield, Kansas, tells of the death of George Birrer, aged about 70. He was a pioneer of Riverside, and has many relatives in Washington and Johnson counties. Mrs. John Plough, mother of Deputy County Superintendent of Schools, Helen Plough, Iowa City, is a sister of Mrs. Birrer's widow, who was Miss Josephine Rummelhart. Four sons and two daughters also survive. He was a man widely known throughout Johnson and surrounding counties, and his many old friends will read the above announcement with sorrow. (Iowa City Press Citizen, February 21, 1923, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

Mr. Martin Birrer, Joe Rummelhart, Lewis Rummelhart, and Joe Melecker attended the funeral of George Birrer, a brother of the former, at Grainfield, Kansas, Friday. The deceased was a victim of influenza. (Iowa City Press Citizen, February 21, 1923, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

BEMISS, FRED J.

Winslow - Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Demiss, and son, Mike, returned from Grinnell, Kansas, where they attended funeral services Saturday, June 23, of Fred J. Bemiss, father of Mr. Demiss. Other survivors are his wife, Maud, four sons, and four daughters. Mrs. Florence Hebert, sister of Demiss, came to Winslow with the family, and then left for her home in Gardena, California. (Iowa City Press Citizen, February 21, 1923, submitted by Nanch Hannah)

BARCLAY, MARY ROYER

Steubenville - The wife of the last living grandson of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ denomination and of Bethany College, died Saturday in her home in Grinnell, Kansas. Mrs. Mary Royer Barclay, 81, a wife of Dr. J. J. Barclay, was born in Missouri September 27, 1877. She was a member of the Grinnell Christian Church. Mrs. Kenneth A. Armitage, a niece of the deceased, lives in Steubenville. Graveside services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday, at Campbell Cemetery, Bethany, with the Rev. Alva Sizemore, LaBelle View Church of Christ, officiating. (Weirton Daily Times (WV), November 14, 1961, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

BARCLAY, JOHN JUDSON

Bethany, West Virginia - Dr. John Judson Barclay, Sr., grandson of the late Alexander Campbell, founder of Bethany College, died Tuesday at his home in Grinnell, Kansas. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Bethany; and a 32nd Degree Mason, Scottish Rite. He was also a member of the Christian Church of Oakley, Kansas. He is survived by two sons, J. Judson Barclay, Jr., of Grinnell, and Royer Barclay of Lindsborg, Kansas, and a daughter, Mrs. Max (Elizabeth) Martin, of Pawnee City, Nebraska, and five grandsons. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Royer Barclay, in 1961. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Campbell Cemetery. The Rev. Roderick Huron, minister of the LaBelle View Church of Christ of Steubenville will officiate. (Weirton Daily Times (WV), January 9, 1964, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

SHOOK, DAVID WILLIAM

David William Shook, 75, passed away Wednesday, November 5, at Amarillo, Texas. The son of Dan and Laura Eby Shook, David was born November 14, 1894, at Quinter, Kansas. He was a veteran of World War I and had farmed in the Green area. Survivors include his wife, Zella of Greene, a son Robert of Scottsdale, Arizona, and two daughters, Mrs. Maxine Weiland of Tempe, Arizona, and Mrs. J. A. Jewell of Waverly. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, November 9th, at the United Methodist Church with Rev. Wayne Gjerde officiating. Burial was in the Rose Hill Cemetery with Reid's Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. (Greene Recorder (Iowa), November 12, 1969, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

MILLER, EVERETT BAKER

Mrs. Howard Burtner of Keedysville, has received word of the death of her brother, Everett Baker Miller, of Quinter, Kansas. He was 91 years of age. He was born near Keedysville on the Ecker farm, now owned by Richard Smith and was the son of Benjamin F. Miller and Matilda (Ecker) Miller. He operated the Little Mill near Sharpsburg for a number of years and helped to plant the maple trees on the grade from Sharpsburg to Antietam Station. He and his wife, the former Minnie Miller, moved to Oklahoma in 1902. Four children survive: Leon, Ralph, Mrs. Mary Bowman, and Mrs. Ruth Jamison. His surviving sister, Mrs. Amos Brumgardner, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is the last surviving member of the family of 13 children. The deceased was a brother of the late John A. Miller of Keedysville and Ernest A. Miller, Hagerstown, well known in the area. (Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Maryland), July 20, 1957, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

PRATT, JOSEPH A.

Pratt, Joseph A. age 77, 200 North Lincoln, Jefferson City, passed away November 2, 1971, at St. Mary's Hospital, after a lingering illness. Mr. Pratt will lie in state at Freeman Mortuary after 11 a.m. on Thursday. Funeral services will be conducted in the Freeman Chapel on Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m., the Rev. Donald Gardner officiating. Interment will be at Quinter, Kansas on Saturday. (Jefferson City Post Tribune (MO), November 3, 1971, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

MUCHMORE, RAY B.

Death Notices

In Redwood City Sunday, April 12, 1953, Ray B. Muchmore, husband of Charlotte M. Muchmore, father of Robert B., Richard W., and the late Lt. Raymond P. Muchmore; son of Mrs. Viola Muchmore and brother of Mrs. Nona Knoblaugh, Clyde E. and Floyd S. Muchmore; also survived by four grandchildren. A native of Gove County, Kansas. Age 61 years. A member of the Stanford Gold Club. Funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Layne & Tinney funeral home, 717 Jefferson ave. Redwood City. Interment, Alta Mesa Memorial Park. (Times (Cal), April 13, 1953, submitted by Nancy Hannah)

HANSEN, JACOB

Monday morning, March 20th [1933], death claimed one of this community's oldest residents, Jacob Hansen, father of Andrew Hansen, Clay Center's genial chief of police. Perhaps not many people knew that Mr. Hansen, Sr., lacked only a few months of being 90 years of age, since he seemed so keen and alert to his last day. Typical of the early frontiersman that he was, it might be said of Mr. Hansen that “He died with his boots on.” For the past four years he had made his home here with his son and family, where he was always given kindly attention, and he was contented and happy. He was especially fond of the Hansen children. Monday morning Mr. Hansen ate his breakfast as usual, and during the forenoon his daughter-in-law took him in some papers to read. When Andy went in to call his father for the noon meal, he was startled to learn that he had answered a previous summons. Death had come to him in the natural order of life, as he sat in his chair reading or writing.

Jacob Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6, 1843, and his life covered a period of 89 years, 8 months and 14 days. He received his schooling and grew to manhood in his native country. In 1870 at the age of 27 years he came with a group of friends to the United States, locating first in Iowa. He was married to Catherine Marie Julius at Sabule, Iowa, October 17, 1871, and they resided there for some time, later coming to Kansas. They first located in Lincoln county. In 1879 they went to western Kansas, where he took a homestead in Gove county, or on “Kansas’ Great Desert” as it was then known. This was their permanent home. Neighbors were few; crop failures plentiful, and work hard to get. Gathering buffalo bones and hauling them 70 miles and receiving $5.00 in return was one way of making a living. Mr. Hansen was a typical frontiersman and punched cattle all the way from No Man’s Land to Gove City, at times being in the saddle for thirty-six hours at a time. He also caught wild horses through western Kansas and eastern Colorado; later breaking them for work and selling for $10 to $50. With his farming and ranching it kept him busy providing for his family. In his prime he measured six feet one inch in height, weighed 225 pounds and was a tower of strength. One of his outstanding characteristics was his great love for horses, and it was no trick at all for him to break wild horses. Although of a rugged type Mr. Hansen was always kind and big hearted.

It was said of him that everybody he met as he rode over the plains of Gove and adjoining counties was his friend.

Mr. Hansen was raised in the Lutheran faith and had been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for fifty-eight years. Mrs. Hansen preceded him in death March 24, 1922. Four daughters and three sons survive their parents, namely: Mrs. Mary Morse and Ditlof Hansen of Gove; John of Oakley, Kansas; Mrs. J. M. Cooper of Torrance, Calif.; Mrs. J. A. Donielson of Jerico Springs, Mo.; Mrs. L.E. Boss of Los Animas, Colo.; and Andrew Hansen of Clay Center, Kansas. Andy is the youngest member of their family. Also 30 grand-children; 32 great-grand-children and two great-great-grand-children survive.

A short funeral service was held at the Schwensen Chapel in Clay Center Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, with Rev. J. C. Boyce of St. Paul’s Episcopal church officiating. Appropriate music was furnished by Mrs. J. C. Boyce and Miss Lillian Gay, with Mrs. Dean Resler as accompanist. The services were largely attended.

he city officials and police squad attended in a body out of respect for the Hansens and the floral offerings were profuse and beautiful.

Andrew Hansen and son Frank accompanied the body to their old home at Gove, and the final rites were held there Wednesday afternoon, where burial was made in the Hansen family plot.

No adequate tribute can be paid these veterans of early days who did the full share toward the development of this country. (Clay Center Dispatch, submitted by Edie DeWeese)