Funeral services for George C. Hepworth, 57, are being held this, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Carey Mortuary in Burlingame. The service is in charge of Prof. E. L. Hellmann, with music by Miss Bess Miner, accompanied by Mrs. W. G. Beale. Graveside services will be conducted by the Masonic lodge of Scranton of which the deceased was a member followed by burial with military honors by members of the American Legion Post of Osage City.
Mr. Hepworth died Sunday, September 18 in a hospital at Havre, Mont. where he had been ill for about a month. Employed for a number of years in the U.S. Forestry Reserves on Indian reservations, his fatal illness was received in line of duty when suffered a heart attack while attempting to extinguish a fire in a mountainous area.
A veteran of World War I he soon thereafter entered the government work, living for a number of years at Fort Thompson, S. Dak. A year or more ago he was transferred to Montana, with his home at Box Elder, Mont.
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hepworth and was born at Burlingame January 6, 1892. Here he was united in marriage to Gertrude Kelley, who survives.
Burlingame Enterprise-Chronicle-1949
Mr. Hepworth died Sunday, September 18 in a hospital at Havre, Mont. where he had been ill for about a month. Employed for a number of years in the U.S. Forestry Reserves on Indian reservations, his fatal illness was received in line of duty when suffered a heart attack while attempting to extinguish a fire in a mountainous area.
A veteran of World War I he soon thereafter entered the government work, living for a number of years at Fort Thompson, S. Dak. A year or more ago he was transferred to Montana, with his home at Box Elder, Mont.
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hepworth and was born at Burlingame January 6, 1892. Here he was united in marriage to Gertrude Kelley, who survives.
Burlingame Enterprise-Chronicle-1949
Funeral services for George C. Hepworth, 57, are being held this, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Carey Mortuary in Burlingame. The service is in charge of Prof. E. L. Hellmann, with music by Miss Bess Miner, accompanied by Mrs. W. G. Beale. Graveside services will be conducted by the Masonic lodge of Scranton of which the deceased was a member followed by burial with military honors by members of the American Legion Post of Osage City.
Mr. Hepworth died Sunday, September 18 in a hospital at Havre, Mont. where he had been ill for about a month. Employed for a number of years in the U.S. Forestry Reserves on Indian reservations, his fatal illness was received in line of duty when suffered a heart attack while attempting to extinguish a fire in a mountainous area.
A veteran of World War I he soon thereafter entered the government work, living for a number of years at Fort Thompson, S. Dak. A year or more ago he was transferred to Montana, with his home at Box Elder, Mont.
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hepworth and was born at Burlingame January 6, 1892. Here he was united in marriage to Gertrude Kelley, who survives.
Burlingame Enterprise-Chronicle-1949
Mr. Hepworth died Sunday, September 18 in a hospital at Havre, Mont. where he had been ill for about a month. Employed for a number of years in the U.S. Forestry Reserves on Indian reservations, his fatal illness was received in line of duty when suffered a heart attack while attempting to extinguish a fire in a mountainous area.
A veteran of World War I he soon thereafter entered the government work, living for a number of years at Fort Thompson, S. Dak. A year or more ago he was transferred to Montana, with his home at Box Elder, Mont.
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hepworth and was born at Burlingame January 6, 1892. Here he was united in marriage to Gertrude Kelley, who survives.
Burlingame Enterprise-Chronicle-1949
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