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Ridgefield Reflector, Clark County, Washington, March 22, 1912, Vol. 3, No. 24 KILLED BY TRAIN Mrs. Louisa Hicks Meets Death on Northern Pacific Tracks. Mrs. Louisa Hicks was instantly killed yesterday afternoon on the Northern Pacific railroad tracks just below the Ridgefield Hotel by being struck by O.W.R.& N. north bound passenger train No. 370, which is due here at 2:51 o'clock. Mrs. Hicks who for the past four months has been keeping house for Mr. A. A. Knox who lives about a mile south near the railroad, was in town doing some shopping and was on her return home on the tracks when a freight train on the south bound track was passing. She was standing on the north bound track watching the train pass when the passenger train came around the curve and was upon her before she had time to escape. She was struck and her body thrown with terrific force against the bulkhead which is built at that point to hold back the steep bank, and her head was crushed on the timbers and her brains scattered along the track. Besides this almost every bone in her body was broken. Coroner Knapp, of Vancouver was notified by telephone and he ordered the body removed from the tracks and it was taken to a vacant house on Third Street belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Steve McAndrew. Coroner Knapp arrived on the next train and after investigation decided that an inquest was unnecessary and he prepared the body for burial. Mrs. Hicks was a widow and leaves two sons, Charles of this place and John of Woodland. She also has three daughters, Mrs. W-gner, and Mrs. Clanton, of Portland, and a daughter who lives in California. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made but she will probably be buried here. Note: Burial was made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Louisa Hicks was the former Louisa Walton of PA. & Adams Co., Illinois.
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Charles Boyd Estes passed away at home in the arms of his wife of 55 years, Margaret (Mickie) Callahan Estes. Born Valentines day 1925, at home on the family homestead on the Little Powder River in SE Montana, Boyd joined his parents Roy C Estes and Lucielle Malley Estes and siblings Charla and Roy Dunlap Estes. He spent his childhood working the cattle ranch with his father . He attended the area's one room country school until his oldest sister entered high school. The family moved into Broadus Montana during the school year and returned to the ranch during the summer. He was a cowboy, a basketball star, a theater student and a newspaper reporter during his childhood and school career. He moved to the west coast around 1942 to work as a draftsman for the Boeing Co. He attended the University of Washington and lived in an old fashion boarding house in the Seattle area. He met the love of his life there, Margaret Mary Callahan. They married in August 1951 and had 9 children between 1952 and 1965. Boyd was an elementary school teacher and a elementary school psychologist for the Auburn and Evergreen School Districts of Washington state. He inspired 5 of his 9 children to enter the education field in various area. He was honest and true and devoted to his wife and children and his very special 17 grandchildren who called him "Papa". The Oregonian, Portland, Multnomah County Oregon ©Teresa Estes-Waller |
BANK OFFICERS SUICIDE TOGETHER President and Cashier of Suspended Institution Found Dead Vancouver, Washington, April 21.- Charles Brown and E.L. Canby, president and cashier, respectively of the First National bank of this city, which was forced to suspend yesterday, committed suicide last night two miles from here. Their bodies were found this morning. Daily Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport Pennsylvania April 22, 1901 ©Shauna Williams |
DERBY, Grant A.-Age 77, May 11, 1963, at Vancouver, Wash. Born March 2, 1886, at Utica, Neb. Lived the past 45 years in Vancouver and formerly of Portland, Ore. Resided at 4100 Fruit Valley Road. Cousins, Nellie Derby Collins, of Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Alvin (Ida Mae) Daily, Willamina, Ore. Friend, Don Avery, Sandy, Ore. Funeral services at 11 a.m. Wednesday May 15, at the Vancouver Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Hans Mattson officiating. Interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens. Vancouver Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. GRANT DERBY ©Dianne Harsh |
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