Webster York, 51, Dies Unexpectedly -- Webster Armstrong York, 51, Fulton Gravel road, died unexpectedly yesterday afternoon following a heart attack while being driven home from work by his neighbor, Kenneth Bottner. Bottner told Sheriff Glen Powell that he and York were engaged in conversation when York had the attack. Bottner drove immediately to the Boone County hospital but York was pronounced dead upon arrival. He estimated the time at about 5:30 o'clock. York suffered from a heart disease, his wife said when notified of his death, and had been under the care of a physician. An employe of the city street department, he had lived here for 22 years. He came from Macon. He was born August 1, 1902, in Tennessee, to Alex and Martha York. January 18, 1937 he married Miss Lillie Baker, who survives. Other survivors include three children by a former marriage, Mrs. Virginia Riggs, Kansas City, Mrs. Beverly Craig, Marshall, and Johnnie York, Dayton, Ohio; his mother, Mrs. Martha York, Bakersfield, Calif; four brothers, Riley, Walter and Cordell of Bakersfield and Alex of Memphis, Tenn.; three sisters, Mrs. Alice Delk, Jamestown, Tenn., Mrs. Edna Grant and Mrs. Dora Truitt of Bakersfield; three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Services for Webster York, a city street department employe who died Friday, will be at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Parker's chapel. The Reverend Cordry, pastor of the Assembly of God church at Riggs, will officiate and burial will be in the Columbia cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Farrell, Leon Walden, Lewis Sutton, Ralph Grissum, sr., Carson Sims and Riggs Benedict.
Services for Webster York, a city street department employe who died Friday, will be at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Parker's chapel. The Reverend Cordry, pastor of the Assembly of God church at Riggs, will officiate and burial will be in the Columbia cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Farrell, Leon Walden, Lewis Sutton, Ralph Grissum, sr., Carson Sims and Riggs Benedict.
Webster York, 51, Dies Unexpectedly -- Webster Armstrong York, 51, Fulton Gravel road, died unexpectedly yesterday afternoon following a heart attack while being driven home from work by his neighbor, Kenneth Bottner. Bottner told Sheriff Glen Powell that he and York were engaged in conversation when York had the attack. Bottner drove immediately to the Boone County hospital but York was pronounced dead upon arrival. He estimated the time at about 5:30 o'clock. York suffered from a heart disease, his wife said when notified of his death, and had been under the care of a physician. An employe of the city street department, he had lived here for 22 years. He came from Macon. He was born August 1, 1902, in Tennessee, to Alex and Martha York. January 18, 1937 he married Miss Lillie Baker, who survives. Other survivors include three children by a former marriage, Mrs. Virginia Riggs, Kansas City, Mrs. Beverly Craig, Marshall, and Johnnie York, Dayton, Ohio; his mother, Mrs. Martha York, Bakersfield, Calif; four brothers, Riley, Walter and Cordell of Bakersfield and Alex of Memphis, Tenn.; three sisters, Mrs. Alice Delk, Jamestown, Tenn., Mrs. Edna Grant and Mrs. Dora Truitt of Bakersfield; three grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Services for Webster York, a city street department employe who died Friday, will be at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Parker's chapel. The Reverend Cordry, pastor of the Assembly of God church at Riggs, will officiate and burial will be in the Columbia cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Farrell, Leon Walden, Lewis Sutton, Ralph Grissum, sr., Carson Sims and Riggs Benedict.
Services for Webster York, a city street department employe who died Friday, will be at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Parker's chapel. The Reverend Cordry, pastor of the Assembly of God church at Riggs, will officiate and burial will be in the Columbia cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Farrell, Leon Walden, Lewis Sutton, Ralph Grissum, sr., Carson Sims and Riggs Benedict.
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