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"Jim" Bass, 70, of Oskaloosa died Dec. 8, 1998, at his home.  He was born April 1, 1928, in Rose Hill to Virgil and Ruth Ferguson Bass.  He married Carol Hoit on April 8, 1965, in Oskaloosa.  She died Dec. 2, 1994.  He graduated from Oskaloosa Senior High School in 1945.  He served in the Navy from 1946 to 1958, when he was honorably discharged.  He then started working for his dad at Bass Sinclair Station in Oskaloosa.  After he married, he worked for Oskaloosa Engineering and then for Vermeer, retiring in 1993.  He was a member of Masonic Lodge A.F. & A.M., and also a member of the local bass fishing club.</div> <div>    He is survived by a daughter, Jill Ewing of Oskaloosa; two grandsons; a sister, Doris Ruby of Fargo, N.D.; and two brothers, Neil Bass of Temecula, Calif., and John Bass of Norco, Calif.  He was preceded in death by his parents.  The service will be 10 a.m. Friday at bates Funeral Home Chapel in Oskaloosa, the Rev. Lanny Tuttle officiating. Burial will be in Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa.  Visitation will be all day at the funeral chapel.  memorials may be made to Hospice of Mahaska County.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>James Wilson Rambo - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="james_wilson_rambo_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Canon City Record, Thursday, February 17, 1916</div> <div> DR. RAMBO PASSED AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS</div> <div>     Dr. J. W. Rambo passed peacefully away at his home, 1911 Greenwood Avenue, at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon from arterial sclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, after an illness of several months duration.  His condition had been known to be serious for some time and the announcement of his death was not greatly surprising to his friends.</div> <div>     Dr. James Wilson Rambo was born in Iowa, March 7, 1852, consequently lacked little more than three weeks of being sixty-four years of age.  He was educated for a professional career and practiced medicine in this county for a good many years, chiefly in Portland and Florence where he resided before coming to Canon City to make his home.  He was physician for the Colorado Portland Cement company at Portland for a number of years and was highly esteemed as a practitioner in that part of the county.  Seven or eight years ago in association with V. S. Simon of Florence, he established a drug store in this city, and for a time gave it his personal supervision but on account of ill health he placed it in charge of H. J. Henderson, who has managed the business the greater part of the time since.  Several years ago Dr. Rambo purchased Mr. Simon's interest in the business.</div> <div>     Dr. Rambo during the last few years of his life suffered two or three partial strokes of paralysis and arterial sclerosis developed as a result and for many months previous in the end he was a helpless invalid.  Deceased held rank in the Masonic order _______ member of Canon City Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar of this city and Florence Lodge A. F. & A. M.  His connection with these organizations had existed for more than twenty years.</div> <div>     He leaves besides the suffering wife an adopted daughter, Miss Dorothy, and a host of friends and acquaintances.  The funeral will take place from his late home at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and will be conducted by Rev. A. I. Chase, pastor of the First Methodist church.  The funeral will be a Masonic one and the fraters of Florence lodge will be in attendance at the obsequies to do honor to the memory of the dead.  An escort will be furnished by Canon city Commandery, Knights Templar.  Interment will be at Lakeside cemetery.  By special request of the deceased he will be buried in full regalia as a member of the order of the Knights Templar.  </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Henson Cleveland Liming - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="henson_liming_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Henson C. Liming</div> <div>    Henson C. Liming, a past resident of Keosauqua and a brother of Willa Beatty passed away Thursday, July 11, at Garden Center in Des Moines. The funeral service was held at the Dahlstrum Funeral Home in Des Moines, Saturday, July 13. Mr. Liming was 89 years old. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Beatty and Claudia and Mrs. Willa Beatty attended the funeral services, and also attending were Caroline Harryman and two children from Nevada, Ia.  Burial was in the McGivern Cemetery in Des Moines.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Alice Viola McCULLOUGH - Obituary</U></B>  <A NAME="alice_mccullough_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> OTTUMWA WOMAN IS DEAD AT AGE OF 100 </div> <div>      Mrs. Alice McCullough Liming, 100-year-old widow of the late William H. Liming, died at her home at 334 East Fourth street at 6:20 a.m. today. A lifelong resident of Iowa, she was born near Douds Dec. 17, 1852.  Her parents were Andrew and Mary McCullough.</div> <div>      She lived in Van Buren county until 1920, when the family moved to Ottumwa.   Surviving are four children, Mrs. Luella S. Gates of Los Angeles; Mrs. William V. Beatty, Keosauqua, Craig A. Liming of Ottumwa; and Henson C. Liming of Des Moines.  There are three stepchildren, Mrs. P.C. Ferguson and Mrs. J. A. Sloan of Ottumwa and Paul C. Liming of Caldwell, Idaho.  Also surviving are a sister Mrs. Lusetta Rambo of Ottumwa and a brother J. F. McCullough of Sioux City. She married William H. Liming in Douds Nov. 10, 1881.  He died in 1936.</div> <div>      The body is at the Jay funeral home.  Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Jay funeral home in charge of the Rev. J. C. Behrens, a retired Methodist minister. Burial will be in the Ottumwa cemetery.    </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Roy Beatty - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="roy_beatty_obituary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> OBIT:  21 April 1966  Slutts Obit Book pg 242</div> <div> Roy Beatty, 72, died Wednesday at 11 p.m. at University Hospital in Iowa City, where had had been a patient since Feb. 22. Funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon at the Methodist church, with Rev. Aldreth V. Weige, officiating.  Burial was in Fellows Cemetery.  The body was taken to the Calcott Funeral Home.</div> <div>     The son of William and Agnes Gibb Beatty, he was born near Keosauqua June 9, 1893.  He had lived in this area all his life. His marriage to Willa Liming of Keosauqua took place March 8, 1912.  She survives.  Also surviving are one son, Warren of Keosauqua; five grandchildren and one brother, Linn Beatty of Keosauqua. A son Howard Liming Beatty, 2 yrs. old, one brother and two sisters preceded him in death.  He was a member of the Methodist church.</div> <div>     Those attending the funeral from out of town were:  Mr. and Mrs. Henson Liming, Mr. Harold McCullough, Des Moines, Mrs. Ethel Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bass, Mrs. Virgil Bass, Oskaloosa, Mr. Don Andrews, Mrs. Glen Berry, Marshalltown, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ferguson Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson, Mr. Joe Ferguson Jr., Miss Nellie Wainscott, Ottumwa, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bailey, Selma,  Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Wainscott, Douds, Mr. and Mrs. Delford Yoeman, Carmen, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Downard of Peoria, ILL., Mr. and Mrs. Horace Kirkendall, Burlington, Mrs.</div> <div> and Mrs. Earnext Blair, Salem, Ia., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richardson, Bonaparte, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Owens, Ft. Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Dodds, and Chris, Iowa City, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Umphrey, Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Morrison, Libertyville, Mr. and Mrs. John Craid, Milton.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Willa Viola Liming - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="willia_liming_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Obit:  1978 Obits pg 127</div> <div>     Willa V. Beatty, daughter of William and Alice McCullough Liming, was born September 6, 1894, at Leando and departed this life Friday, October 20, 1978 at Van Buren County Memorial Hospital in Keosauqua at the age of 84.</div> <div>     In 1912 she married Roy Beatty, and they lived their entire married life in the same neighborhood north of Keosauqua.  Mrs. Beatty continued to make her home on the family farm after Mr. Beatty's death in 1966, residing there until her last illness and hospitalization. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a two year old</div> <div> son, Howard, two brothers, a sister, two half-brothers, and four half-sisters.</div> <div>     Remaining to cherish her memory are her son, Warren and his wife Ruby of Keosauqua; five grandchildren, Sharon Roberts of Keosauqua, Carolyn Harryman of Ames, Sue McKeehan of Russell and David and Claudia Beatty, both of Kirksville, Missouri.  Also surviving are eight great grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.</div> <div>     Mrs. Beatty was an active member of the Keosauqua United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women, the Keosauqua Book Club and the Van Buren County Historical Society. She will be remembered as a devoted mother and grandmother, a good neighbor and a citizen who took an interest in varied community affairs throughout a long and active life.</div> <div>     Funeral services were held Sunday, October 22, 1978, at 2 p.m. at the Keosauqua United Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Cornish pastor officiating.  Mrs. Harold Jamison was the organist.  Pallbearers were Lex and Leo Miller, Maynard Philips. Ray Randell Carleton Paschal and Marvin Teal.  Pedrick Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.  A memorial was established for her church or the American Cancer Society.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Orien Ray Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="ray_gilbert_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> OBIT:    Feb 3, 1939</div> <div> O.R. Gilbert Passes Suddenly at Grand Meadow, Minnesota</div> <div>     When news of the death of O.R. Gilbert was received here Saturday morning the writer was most deeply grieved, and our readers will be equally sorry to learn of his sudden passing, which occurred at his home at Grand Meadow, Minn., Friday night, Feb. 3rd, after only a few hours of illness.  He was 65 years and 15 days of age.</div> <div>     For over two years Mr. Gilbert has been supplying the Times-Herald with his history of Harding county and Travelogue, and our readers have enjoyed reading every installment, in fact it had become a regular feature of the paper looked forward to by our large number of readers.  If these articles could be combined it would make a large book , as there were only a few issues that did not contain some of his writings.</div> <div>     As a traveling salesman for many years, and being a close observer, he had an opportunity of gathering interesting bits of news as he journeyed from place to place and had time to look back to periods years ago in this country, and recall incidents that made interesting reading to old timers as well as others.  he carried his typewriter whenever he went and spent the long evenings, at hotel or tourist cabin, in getting up his interesting column for the Times-Herald.</div> <div>     More of his writings had been put in type for this week's issue before news of his passing was received, and we have some more that we feel should be used, and we are sure it would be his wish for us to do so.</div> <div>     His articles concerning early days in this country and names of early settlers as well as the later influx of homesteaders, shows he had a wonderful memory, and was able to set down events in a humorous and interesting manner.</div> <div>     It was only last week that the Times-Herald contained his article relating to Buffalo being 80 years old, and previous to that he had sent the two pictures of the scenes in the town taken in 1909, which came in just right.  However he did not know these pictures were to appear, not that of himself.  How he would have enjoyed seeing these two early day pictures in the paper, but the Great Ruler willed differently and he had passed away before the papers reached their destination.</div> <div>     This week we feel that his picture belongs on the front page and the Times-Herald family of readers will join in extending sincere sympathy to the family and relatives.</div> <div>     He was here long before Buffalo was thought of and had no small part in getting the town started 50 years ago.  For many years he was a salesman for the Kelly-How-Thompson Hardware Company, covering this state, but of late years had been representing the Hall Manufacturing Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa which gave him an opportunity to cover several states.</div> <div>     In his passing South Dakota, and Harding county in particular, has lost a constant booster, as he never missed an opportunity in making comparisons and calling attention to some of the little thought of attractions we have out here in the west river country, and especially here in Harding county.</div> <div>     Yes Ray, as he was familiarly known, will be sadly missed as he was a man who made lasting friends wherever he went.  He got a lot out of life and from reading his articles one could not help but known that his thoughts were on a higher plane than the average.</div> <div>     Orien Ray Gilbert, son of Parker B. and Samantha Olive Gilbert, was born January 18, 1874 in village Township, Van Buren County, Iowa.</div> <div>     On March 16th, 1900, he was married at Oakland, Nebr., to Almeda Nelson and came to Spearfish, where he made his first home.</div> <div>     He came to what is now Harding county with his parents and other members of the family in 1887.  They settled at Nashville (now Harding) where he worked for cattle outfits, and later attended Spearfish Normal school.  His father died Feb 1, 1909, and mother, Dec. 15, 1930.</div> <div>     Deceased and family resided in Belle Fourche from about 1905 until coming to Buffalo in the winter of 1908-09.  They resided here until about 1915 or 1916, when they moved to Huron, where they resided until a few years ago.  Recently they had made their home at Grand Meadow, Minn., where their daughter and husband, Dr. and Mrs. Harold Rosenthal, reside.</div> <div>     Deceased is survived by his widow and four daughters; Mrs. Rosenthat at Grand Meadow, Minn., Caroline and Margaret in California, Katharyn, who is completing a nurses training course in Chicago, and one son, Maurice who resides in Huron.  Two daughters, Mildred aged 9 and Carol, age 1 year, preceded him in death.  He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Wm. Fried of Los Angeles, Calif., and two brothers, Frank M. Gilbert of Buffalo, and Guy G. Gilbert of Belle Fourche.  there are five grandchildren. One brother Welda Andrew Gilbert, preceded him in death in 1922.</div> <div>     The funeral was held at Grand Meadow on Wednesday and interment made at that place. </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Parker Brown Gilbert - History of Family</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="parker_gilbert_history"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div>    HISTORY OF THE GILBERT FAMILY</div> <div> By Linda Gilbert  (Nation's Center News, Thursday, January 6, 1983) </div> <div> " We ne'er can live those days again,</div> <div> They're gone for-ever-more,</div> <div> But we all can talk this over when,</div> <div> We meet on the "Rock-Bound Shore." </div> <div>                           Orien Ray Gilbert </div> <div> Pioneers of courage, independence and faith, those were the common traits of the entire Gilbert family since the beginning of their recorded history.  They were often talented musically and journalism was in their blood.  Love for each other and their fellowman was important most of all.  The earliest record that could be found was the arrival of the Gilbert family from England.  They were of Puritan background.  </div> <div>     Parker Brown Gilbert was the eldest son of Riley.  Born on April 3, 1848, in Van Buren County, Iowa.  he was truly a pioneer.  According to his son Ray he was "a carpenter, a blacksmith, a farmer, and the kindest "old Dad" we can ever know."  Park and his wife Samantha had five children:  Mary, Frank, Orien Ray, Guy, and Welda.</div> <div>     I am now going to take the privilege of quoting Ray Gilbert from his writings in the book Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short Grass country by John O. Bye.  Let him take us on the journey into Dakota Territory from Iowa.</div> <div>     "It was an afternoon in February, 1887, when gathering all of our earthly possessions, including household goods and livestock, we loaded everything into an emigrant car at Douds, Iowa, with a way-billed destination reading "Rapid City, Dakota Territory, via Missouri Valley," were we transferred to the Elkhorn route to the Black Hills.</div> <div>     My father, my oldest brother and myself rode in the emigrant car, and to me, a 13 year-old boy, the trip was a thrill from the time we left Douds until we arrived in Rapid city two weeks later.  Never having ridden on a train, except once to the Keosauqua Fair, it was an experience to which I had looked forward with a lot of anticipation.  Our mother and only sister and two smaller boys of the family left Douds the same day, but they rode in the "varnished coaches" and reached Rapid City several days in advance of us in the emigrant car, although they had stopped in Council Bluffs for a few days and visited with our grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Gilbert, who came to South Dakota some years later and now sleep in the prairie graveyard near Harding.</div> <div>     I well remember the ride from Chadron, Nebraska, to Rapid City.  It was early March and much rain and snow had fallen and the road bed was soft and pliable.  the ties would sink in the soft grade as the heavy train passed over them and considerable anxiety was felt as to the safety of the track and possible danger of a wreck.  However, we arrived in Rapid city safely and were met by mother (Samantha McCullough Gilbert)  and other children who had been staying at a hotel awaiting us.  I can remember how happy mother was to get out of the expensive lodging and into the covered wagons where there were sleeping accommodations, without cost, and the youngsters could be fed with less expense.</div> <div>     Father had built a wide extension on the wagon box and had brought wagon bows and the canvas for a cover from Iowa, and it wasn't long before the family was organized and fairly comfortable around a camp fire on the prairie.  The cows and calves came through in fine condition, due to the constant care given them by our good old Dad who always considered the comfort of everything in his care before thinking of himself.  We were soon headed slowly northward toward the "promised land," Valley Creek valley at the Short Pine Hills in what was then Burdick county, Dakota Territory.</div> <div>     Fortunately for us we left Rapid city with two old freighters, A.P. Bovell and Hyrum Bickerdyke of Camp Crook, who were loaded with merchandise for the Browning and Wringrose store in that inland village.  these men were as fine a pioneers as ever fought and conquered that 40 mile strip of gumbo of which the Two top divide was about the half way mark.</div> <div>     I recall the first wet spell we encountered which was when we had reached the crossing on Whitewood Creek, and the amusement of Mr. Bovell at our reaction to that sticky mud.  None of us had ever seen any of it before except father who had made a trip to the area earlier in the year and chosen the location for the family home.  Mr. Bovell remarked "it sticks like a brother," and to me that description of gumbo has always been sufficient.  While we were camped at Whitewood Creek I saw Mr. Bickerdyke roll a cigarette.  That was the first time I had ever seen that operation.  But what a grand old character he was, the son of a famous Civil War nurse.  "Mother Bickerdyke."</div> <div>     The rains and melting snow in the Black Hills had swollen Whitewood Creek almost to flood proportions and we swam the cows across through that surging, swirling current of muddy red water from the mines in Deadwood and Lead.  The cattle drifted with the swift current and when Mother saw the possibility of every one of them being swept away by the thick, dirty water she was frantic.  However, with considerable yelling, throwing rocks and "punching cows" with long poles they all finally landed on the north bank but were scattered over quite an area.  The weight of the loads on the wagons held them down and we were across with no loss other than the damage to things in the bottom of the wagon boxes by the water.</div> <div>     The wet weather developed into a real March storm as we traveled onward, and but for the hospitality of bird Rose, that fine old-timer who had a ranch to the mouth of Owl Creek, we would have suffered hardships to a March blizzard with sort of "tenderfoot" equipment.  Bird Rose and his mother, Mrs. Rose, opened their spacious ranch house to us and the entire Gilbert family ate and slept there for three stormy days.</div> <div>     That was our first experience in genuine western hospitality and especially was it made manifest when father attempted to pay Mr. Rose for the accommodation and he wouldn't accept a thin dime.  Naturally, since that memorable storm of March, 1887, this family has sung praises of the Roses for the manner in which they cared for an emigrant family they had never even heard of before.  It was the way of the West and what a deplorable thing that it can't be so today.  No one suspicioned any one in those days.  Every one was considered and treated as "on the square" until proved otherwise.</div> <div>     Somehow we got across that 40 miles of gumbo without serious incident, moving only a few miles each day.  One serious obstacle was getting water for cooking and drinking as all the creeks and draws were lined with dead cattle as a result of the historic hard winter of 1886-87.  North of Two Top Divide we met Old Man Wells and Charlie Oliver with a six-yoke bull outfit loaded with buffalo bones and hopelessly bogged down in the gumbo.  Charlie was digging the sticky stuff out of the spokes of the wagon wheels and Mr. Wells was surveying the situation with apparent concern.  However, that old pioneer was equal to any occasion and being bogged down with a bull train was just an incident in a day's work with him.  </div> <div>     Several weeks were consumed in our trek from Rapid City to Valley Creek where with high hopes we would build a "home on the range."  Finally we could see the Short Pine Hills to the north.  They did not look so far away but it seemed an endless process to reach them.  When we'd reach the top of a divide we'd hope sincerely that it would be another wide space of prairie beyond which would be another divide exactly like the one we had topped.</div> <div>     And so on and on, day after day.  We finally reached Grand Prairie where we could camp on sandy soil.  This seemed to us like an oasis in a desert.  With everyone having an appetite about equivalent to a hay baler, caused partly by climatic change and outdoor life, we ran short of food.  So we consumed jack rabbits and curlews.  A pot of soup made with two or three curlews and boiled potatoes, cooked over an open fie, made a very satisfying meal, as it was washed down with coffee.  Time will never erase the memory of the deliciousness of dunking dry bread, with the mould cut off, into its hot contents, or "sopping it up" with friend cakes stirred up in slough water.</div> <div>     Eventually we arrived in the Valley Creek valley on May 6, and immediately started building a log house with still stands and around which cluster memories of pioneer days.  It was built in the center of the original homestead of 160 acres, the title to which was issued over the signature of Grover Cleveland.</div> <div>     Tragedy was to come to Parker Brown on New Years Day when he was working in his rance shop.  "A piece of red hot iron snapped off the anvil and struck him in the eye.  No medical aid was closer than the Black Hills and with the roads practically impassable, it seemed a physical impossibility to do anything other than keep him in a dark room and do everything humanly possible to alleviate the terrible suffering he endured for the first few days.  Will Fried (son-in-law) took him to Chicago where the injured eye was removed, but eventually the other eye was lost and he spent the last 20 years of his life in total blindness."</div> <div>     Parker learned to use an ordinary typewriter, and to read and write Braille.  His wife, Samantha, read to him daily and he learned to remember everything she read.</div> <div>     "The front pages of the daily newspapers and the bible were his favorite past times, and during the closing years of his life he quoted more scripture than some people read during a lifetime.  On of his favorite passages was "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good."</div> <div>     Parker Brown died the first of February, 1909 and the inscription on his tombstone reads, "He looked for a City that has foundations whose builder and maker is God."</div> <div>     Parker Brown is believed to have settled where the Heikkila brothers presently live.  His brother, Charles, settled near the present Dave Penn ranch.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Harriet Elizabeth Enochs - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="harriet_enochs_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> 9 Oct 1957 MRS. GILBERT, 70, DIES TUESDAY</div> <div>     Belle Fourche - Hattie Elizabeth Gilbert died early Tuesday morning at the John Burns Memorial Hospital in Belle Fourche. Mrs. Gilbert was born Jan. 27, 1887 in Huntington County, Indiana.  She attended schools in Warren, Indiana and as a young woman came to Belle Fourche in 1904, where she was employed in Lancaster's Dry Good store. She married to Welda Gilbert in Belle Fourche and after their marriage they homsteaded in Harding County.  Mr. Gilbert died in 1922.  Mrs. Gilbert carried on the ranch activities until 1948 when she sold her interests in that area and moved to Huntington, Indiana to retire. Mrs. Gilbert was in Belle Fourche visiting when she fell and was hospitalized.</div> <div>     A member of the Congregational Church in Indiana, she was a past matron at Eastern Star in the Belle Fourche chapter. Survivors include two sisters Mrs. Gertrude Hiestand, Huntington, Indiana, and Mrs. C.R. Elliott, Warren, Indiana; one brother C. W. Enochs., Sapulpa, Oklahoma and one grandson.  Beside her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Andres in 1939. Funeral services have been set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Frost and Son Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Salem officiating.  Burial will be in Pineslope Cemetery.  </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Welda A Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="welda_gilbert_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> DEATH OF W.A. GILBERT</div> <div>     W.A. Gilbert, one of the well-known young ranchmen of southern Harding County, passed away early Wednesday morning of this week at the hospital at Deadwood, where he underwent an operation the first of this week.  The body will be brought to Belle Fourche today and burial will probably be at PineSlope cemetery.</div> <div>     Mr. Gilbert had spent a major portion of his life in western South Dakota, for a number of years he was employed in the Bald Mountain mining country but went to Harding county about twelve or thirteen years ago andsince that time has been engaged in the sheep business.  A few years ago hepurchased the S.B. Johnson irrigated ranch, one and one-half miles east of Belle Fourche, but disposed of that place two years ago and returned to his sheep ranch in Harding county.</div> <div>     He was a young man of energy, industry and undisputed integrity, and his untimely passing will be a source of regret to many friends in this secion of the northwest.  He is survived by a wife and son, a mother, Mrs. P.B. Gilbert, of Belle Fourche, three brothers, G.G. of Belle Fourche, Frank M. of Buffalo, S.D., O.R. of Watertown, S.D. and one sister Mrs. Wm Fried of Oakland, Calif to whom the sympathy of this entire community is extended.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Samantha Olive McCullough - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="samantha_mccullough_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Mrs. S. O. Gilbert, 80, Dies This Noon </div> <div>     Mrs. Samantha O. Gilbert, who was 80 years of age on October 22, died this noon at 12:20 o'clock at the home of her son, O.R. Gilbert, 1104 Kansas Avenue SouthEast.  Mrs. Gilbert had been in ill health for about two years, but her condition was not regarded as serious until the past two months.</div> <div>     She was born in Selma, Van Buren County, Iowa, and came to South Dakota, locating in the northwestern part of the state in the year 1887.  She has been identified with this state ever since that time.  For the past three years Mrs. Gilbert resided in Huron at the home of her son.</div> <div>     The body will be taken to Belle Fourche tomorrow night, accompanied by O.R. Gilbert, for burial there Thursday beside her husband, Parker B. Gilbert, who died in October, 1909, in Los Angeles.  Mrs. Gilbert was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church for about 20 years and it is expected that a minister of that church will officiate at the services, which are to be at the home of a daughter-in-law, Mrs. W.A. Gilbert.</div> <div>     Surviving her are one daughter, Mrs. William Fried of Los Angeles; and three sons, F.M. Gilbert, Harding County, South Dakota; G.G. Gilbert of Belle Fourche and O.R. Gilbert of Huron.  One son, W.A. Gilbert died in 1921 and he is also buried in the cemetery at Belle Fourche.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Gerald Gene Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="gerald_gene_gilbert_obituary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Rapid City Journal:  Serving Rapid City, South Dakota </div> <div> Gerald Gene Gilbert</div> <div> SAN ANTONIO - Gerald Gene Gilbert died at San Antonio, Texas, on March 28, 2002.  Jerry was born to Freeman J. and Ethel J. (Sornson) Gilbert on July 17, 1937, in Belle Fourche.  He graduated from Maplewood Academy in Hutchinson, Minnesota, in 1955.  In 1960 he received his Degree in chemistry and Mathematics from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. He married Lois Ann Finck in Boulder, Colorado, in 1962.  Their son Freeman Jay was born in Boulder in 1964. </div> <div>     Jerry spent most of his career in government service, much of which was in Germany.  he and his family loved the twenty-one years that they lived and worked in that country.  In 1995, they returned to the United States and made their home in San Antonio, where he worked at Ft. Sam Houston. </div> <div>    Throughout his life he continued his education and his love and cultivation of music and photography.  he earned a Master's Degree in systems Management through the University of Southern California.  As a youth he had learned to play clarinet, oboe, flute, alto and bass recorders and guitar, and played in the Belle Fourche Cowboy Band during high-school and college summers.  As an adult he learned trumpet in Germany, and he and his son played in a band which performed at the Martin Luther Monument during a Reformation Day Commemoration.  He organized and directed church choirs, singing both English and German hymns.  Photography was also a lifelong pursuit, and he was about to begin repairing his father's antique 35 mm Kodak just days before his battle with cancer came to an end. </div> <div>    He is survived by his wife Lois, a tireless caregiver during his illness; his son Freeman Jay of Berrein Springs, Michigan; his father Dr. Freeman Gilbert of Spearfish; his sister Ardyth Helmer and husband Larry Helmer of Belle Fourche; and his brother Wayne Gilbert and wife Kris Thiuelen of Rapid City.  He was preceded in death by his mother Ethel Gilbert in 1997 and his brother Jim Gilbert in 2001. </div> <div> A memorial service will be held at the Spearfish Seventh-day Adventist Church on April 27, 2002, at 2:30 p.m.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>James Edward Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="james_edward_gilbert_obituary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Rapid City Journal:  Serving Rapid City, South Dakota</div> <div> James Edward Gilbert</div> <div> Kansas City, Missouri - James Edward Gilbert, 64, died at Kansas City, Mo., on Feb 18, 2001. Jim was born March 11, 1936, in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.</div> <div> Jim received his Bachelor's in physics from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958, and a master's in physics from the University of Colorado in 1961. After two years as an engineer for Western Electric, Jim resumed teaching physics and astronomy at Longview Community College in 1970.  In 1993, he was appointed chair of the Math, Physics and Engineering Department.  He served in that capacity until his retirement in 2000. He received the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of his long and distinguished service in higher education.</div> <div>     He enjoyed many diverse pursuits, ranging from railroading to gourmet cooking.  he established the Kitchenry cookware store and cooking school in Kansas City and operated it throughout the 1970s. He was married to Colleen Julius from 1956 to 1967.</div> <div>     Jim is survived by Donald Owen, his companion and partner of 33 years; his father, Freeman J. Gilbert of Belle Fourche; his son, Kevin, and daughter-in-law, Sarah, and granddaughter, Anna Gilbert of Lincoln, Nebraska; his daughter, Pamela, and son-in-law, Cary, and granddaughters, Madison and Hannah DeCamp of Shawnee, Kansas; his brother, Jerry Gilbert, and sister-in-law, Lois Gilbert of San Antonio, Texas; his sister and brother-in-law, Ardyth Helmer and Larry Helmer of Belle Fourche; his brother Wayne Gilbert, and sister-in-law, Kris Thielen of Rapid City; and several nieces and nephews.</div> <div>     He was preceded in death by his mother, Ethel Gilbert, in 1997.</div> <div>     Memorial services will be at Longview Community College Education Center in Kansas City at 2 p.m. on March 4. A memorial service also will be held at Belle Fourche Recreation Center on March 9 at 1:30 p.m. The family suggests contributions to the James Gilbert Scholarship Fund, c/o Metropolitan Community College Foundation, 3200 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, 64111.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Ethel Jane Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="ethel_gilbert_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Ethel Gilbert</div> <div>     Belle Fourche-Ethel Gilbert, 83, Belle Fourche, passed away Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997 at Belle Fourche Long Term Care Center after a lengthy battle with cancer.</div> <div>     Ethel Jane Sornson was born March 20, 1914 in Exira, Iowa, to Adolph and Meta (Aagard) Sornson.   She grew up on the family farm a few miles west of Exira.  She attended grade school at West Exira SDA Church School and graduated from Oak Park Academy at Nevada, Iowa.  She also attended Union College at Lincoln, Nebraska.  Ethel married Freeman J. Gilbert at Omaha, Nebraska on April 10, 1936.</div> <div>     Survivors include her loving husband of 61 1/2 years, Freeman, Belle Fourche:  Three sons, James Gilbert, Kansas City, Missouri, Gerald and Lois Gilbert, San Antonio, Wayne Gilbert and Kristi Thielen, Rapid City; one daughter Ardyth and Larry Helmer, Belle Fourche; five grandsons, Kevin Gilbert, Jay Gilbert, Guy Helmer Joe Helmer and Joshua Gilbert; four granddaughters, Pam Gilbert DeCamp, Heidi Helmer, Rachael Gilbert and Rebecca Gilbert; three great-granddaughters.  Madison DeCamp, Hannah DeCamp and Anna Gilbert and one great-grandson, Alex Helmer.</div> <div>     She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Raymond and sister, Alice.</div> <div>     Ethel met Freeman Gilbert from Belle Fourche when her older sister Alice, married Freeman's older brother, Floyd.  The couple had to young sons, Jim and Jerry, when the moved to Loma Linda, Calif., when Freeman attended Loma Linda University Medical School.  They then moved to Boulder, Colo., where the daughter, Ardyth, was born and Freeman interned and first practiced medicine.  They then moved to Belle Fourche for a time and then to West Virginia when Freeman was drafted into the Army.  They returned to Belle Fourche after World War II.  Ethel was a busy and loving mother, and their third son, Wayne, was born in Belle Fourche.  When Freeman was recalled to active duty during the Korean Conflict, the family moved first to Fort Meade near Sturgis and then to Anchorage, Alaska.  Returning to Belle Fourche, Freeman resumed his medical practice.  In 1963, they moved to the Gilbert family farm at Redwater Valley between Belle Fourche and Spearfish.  Ethel and Freeman spent many hours nurturing and caring for Ardyth and Larry's children on the farm.  In 1983, they moved back into Belle Fourche.</div> <div>     Ethel loved flowers, especially roses, and spent many hours caring for her flower gardens.  She was continually knitting or crocheting beautiful sweaters and afghans for her family members.  She was an active and faithful member of Spearfish Seventh-day Adventist Church, serving in many capacities including church clerk for many years.  She was a long-time member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in Belle Fourche.  She enjoyed bowling and was active in many leagues as long as her health permitted.  Her favorite vacation spot was the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, where Freeman and Ethel would annually camp, fish and enjoy the scenery.  They loved to take their grandchildren with them and instilled in them a love of the beautiful mountains.</div> <div>     Visitation will be at 11 a.m. today at Fidler Funeral Chapel in Spearfish.</div> <div>     Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Belle Fourche Methodist Church.  Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Spearfish.  </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Freeman J Gilbert - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="freeman_gilbert_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Rapid City Journal:  Serving Rapid City, South Dakota</div> <div> Fort Meade - Freeman J. Gilbert, 91, Fort Meade, died Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at Fort Meade Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  Survivors include one son, Wayne Gilbert, Rapid City; one daughter, Ardyth Helmer, Belle Fourche; nine grandchildren; and seven grandchildren.</div> <div>     Arrangements are pending with Fidler Funeral Chapel in Spearfish. Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home is in care of arrangements. </div> <div> Freeman J. "Doc" Gilbert, M.D.</div> <div> BELLE FOURCHE - Freeman J. "Doc" Gilbert, M.D. passed away February 15, 2003, at Fort Meade VA Nursing Home Care Unit  at the age of 91. Visitation will be held from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at Fidler Funeral Chapel, Spearfish.  </div> <div> Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 20, 2003, at the United church of Christ, Spearfish, with Rev. Mell Miller, Pastor Larry Weidell and Jean Helmer officiating.  Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery, Spearfish. A memorial has been established for the Tri-State Museum in Belle Fourche. </div> <div> Freeman was born on December 5, 1911, at Belle Fourche, SD, and grew up on the family farm south of Belle Fourche, and the ranch near Buffalo, SD.  He attended school in Belle Fourche, and graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1930.  He graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, then attended Loma Linda School of Medicine, graduating 1941.  Freeman married Ethel Sornsom April 10, 1936.  </div> <div>    Following his graduation from medical school, Freeman spent a year of internship at Porter Hospital in Denver, Colorado, then a year at the Boulder Sanitorium, serving as Boulder County physician.  He returned home to Belle Fourche in 1943 to practice medicine, intending to settle down and raise his growing family.  Duty called, and in the summer of 1944 he was inducted into the service, serving returning soldiers in hospitals in Carlile Barracks, PA, Mason General Hospital in Long Island, New Orleans and West Ashford, general hospital in Virginia and Newton D. Baker hospital in West Virginia. He was discharged from active duty in 1946 and returned to the practice of medicine in Belle Fourche.  The Korean Conflict reactivated him from the National Guard and he was a Major of the 196th Medical Corps first in Camp Carson, Colorado, then Fort Richardson, Alaska, and at Fort Meade near Sturgis.  His practice was resumed in Belle Fourche from 1951 to 1966; by this time his family included his wife, Ethel, sons James and Gerald, daughter Ardyth, and son Wayne. In 1966 he returned to Fort Meade, practicing medicine there until his retirement in 1982.  Not wishing to fully retire, he re-joined Dr. Marousek on a part-time basis until December of 1993.  In 1994 Doc received a Fifty-Year Award for fifty years of continuous medical practice in the state of South Dakota.  He was a charter member of the Spearfish Seventh-day Adventist Church, serving the membership in many capacities. </div> <div>    Doc loved being out of doors, from growing up on the farm and ranch extending to his devotion to fly-fishing.  As a young man, he taught himself the gentle art of fly-fishing and tying his own flies, and would spend a Sunday afternoon in Spearfish Canyon, never coming home empty-handed.  Often, Ethel would pack a lunch, and their youngsters could play in the water, she would read, and Freeman would fish.  In later years, Doc and Ethel went to the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming for their annual vacation, taking grandchildren with them, instilling in all a love of the mountains and the great outdoors. </div> <div>    Doc Gilbert will long be remembered as a kind, considerate, patient and gentle man, a wonderful father and respected physician.  He will be greatly missed.  He is survived by a daughter, Ardyth and Larry Helmer of Belle Fourche, and a son, Wayne Gilbert and Kris Thielen of Rapid City. Five grandsons:  Kevin Gilbert, Freeman Jay Gilbert, Guy Helmer, Jon Helmer, and Joshua Gilbert. Four granddaughters:  Pam (Gilbert) DeCamp, Heidi Helmer, Rachael Gilbert and Rebekah Gilbert. Five great-granddaughters:  Madison DeCamp, Hannah DeCamp, Anna Gilbert, Carrie Helmer, and Emily Helmer. Two great-grandsons:  Alex Helmer and Andrew Helmer. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ethel; sons James and Gerald; sister Blanche Davis; brothers Floyd and Wallace Gilbert. </div> <div> Arrangements have been placed in the care of Fidler Funeral Chapel, Spearfish.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>William Edgar McCullough - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="william_edgar_mccullough_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> William E. McCullough</div> <div>    William Edgar McCullough, son of Andrew and Mary McCullough, was born May 16, 1867 near Douds, Ia. He passed away at his home in Mobridge, South Dakota, Sept. 12, 1934, having lived 67 years, 3 months and 26 days. He was united in marriage to Blanche M. Findlay, Oct. 18, 1888. To this union were born 7 children, Mrs. Maud Wescott, of Guthrie, Okla., Mrs. Mable Ruble, Mrs. Ruth Harlan, Hugh and Andrew and Mrs. Violet Bennett, of Valley Junction, Ia. There are 16 grandchildren.</div> <div>    Edgar was preceded in death by his wife and eldest son, John. He was married to Alice Smith, July 18, 1919, who surivies him and who so tenderly administered to him during his illness of intense sufferings.</div> <div>    Edgar grew to manhood in the old home near Douds with the exception of a few years spent in Nebraska and Oklahoma, he has since resided in Mobridge, South Dakota. He united with the M.E. church at Selma, Ia. during the pastorate of the Rev. G.W. Barber.</div> <div>    Six sisters and one brother mourn the loss of a true brother; Mrs. Alice Liming, Mrs. Retta Miller, Mrs. Lucetta Rambo, Mrs. Vina Tinner, of Ottumwa; Mrs. Ola Walker, of Douglas, Wyo.; Mrs. Bertha Wainscott, of Douds; and J.F. McCullough of Genesee, Ill.</div> <div>    The remembrance of him by those who knew him best, will be that of a kind, jovial friend and neighbor. And to the breaved ones of a loyal and sympathetic husband and father. Funeral services were held at Mt. Moriah, Sept. 14, conducted by the Rev. G.W. Barber.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Hugh E McCullough - Obituary</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="hugh_e_mccullough_obit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> HUGH E McCULLOUGH</div> <div>    Hugh E McCullough, 73, of 541 Fourth St., West Des Moines, died Saturday at an Omaha, Neb., hospital of a  heart attack. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at McLaren's Funeral Home with burial at Resthaven Cemetery. Mr. McCulough was born in Selma and lived in West Des Moines 60 years. He was a Rock Island Railroad engineer until he retired several years ago. Also, he was a member of Masonic Lodge Number 577.</div> <div>    Survivors include his wife, Lela: a son, Clarence of Ames" a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Clark of Omaha, Neb.: a sister, Mrs. Violet Bennett of West Des Moines: nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>