OBITUARY:
RENO MATRON DIES AT HOME - Mrs. Helena Travis Crutchfield, wife of former show business entertainer Cuba I. Crutchfield, died in a local rest home Saturday.
Mrs. Crutchfield was a native of New York City, born there January 26, 1888 and came to Nevada from New York in 1923. She married her husband in 1924 and for the next three years she accompanied him on the show circuits.
In 1927 they returned to Reno and settled on the Martin Ranch near Galena in 1930.
Crutchfield was a cousin of Will Rogers, had played with him, Mae West and many others in a long show business career. He was in many cowboy melodramas in the early part of the century and had played one-night stands all over the nation. He had also been on stage in England and Scotland with the late Harry Lauder.
Mrs. Crutchfield had been ill for some time and had moved from the family ranch to a rest home only a short time ago.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two cousins, Kenneth and Helen Stillenwerf of Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 pm in Ross-Burke Chapel with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal clergyman.
Private burial will follow at the Crutchfield Cemetery on the ranch. (Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada, May 26, 1958)
Daughter of Edwin Bartlett Meeks & Emma (Stellenwerf) Meeks.
RENO MATRON DIES AT HOME - Mrs. Helena Travis Crutchfield, wife of former show business entertainer Cuba I. Crutchfield, died in a local rest home Saturday.
Mrs. Crutchfield was a native of New York City, born there January 26, 1888 and came to Nevada from New York in 1923. She married her husband in 1924 and for the next three years she accompanied him on the show circuits.
In 1927 they returned to Reno and settled on the Martin Ranch near Galena in 1930.
Crutchfield was a cousin of Will Rogers, had played with him, Mae West and many others in a long show business career. He was in many cowboy melodramas in the early part of the century and had played one-night stands all over the nation. He had also been on stage in England and Scotland with the late Harry Lauder.
Mrs. Crutchfield had been ill for some time and had moved from the family ranch to a rest home only a short time ago.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two cousins, Kenneth and Helen Stillenwerf of Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 pm in Ross-Burke Chapel with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal clergyman.
Private burial will follow at the Crutchfield Cemetery on the ranch. (Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada, May 26, 1958)
Daughter of Edwin Bartlett Meeks & Emma (Stellenwerf) Meeks.
OBITUARY:
RENO MATRON DIES AT HOME - Mrs. Helena Travis Crutchfield, wife of former show business entertainer Cuba I. Crutchfield, died in a local rest home Saturday.
Mrs. Crutchfield was a native of New York City, born there January 26, 1888 and came to Nevada from New York in 1923. She married her husband in 1924 and for the next three years she accompanied him on the show circuits.
In 1927 they returned to Reno and settled on the Martin Ranch near Galena in 1930.
Crutchfield was a cousin of Will Rogers, had played with him, Mae West and many others in a long show business career. He was in many cowboy melodramas in the early part of the century and had played one-night stands all over the nation. He had also been on stage in England and Scotland with the late Harry Lauder.
Mrs. Crutchfield had been ill for some time and had moved from the family ranch to a rest home only a short time ago.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two cousins, Kenneth and Helen Stillenwerf of Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 pm in Ross-Burke Chapel with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal clergyman.
Private burial will follow at the Crutchfield Cemetery on the ranch. (Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada, May 26, 1958)
Daughter of Edwin Bartlett Meeks & Emma (Stellenwerf) Meeks.
RENO MATRON DIES AT HOME - Mrs. Helena Travis Crutchfield, wife of former show business entertainer Cuba I. Crutchfield, died in a local rest home Saturday.
Mrs. Crutchfield was a native of New York City, born there January 26, 1888 and came to Nevada from New York in 1923. She married her husband in 1924 and for the next three years she accompanied him on the show circuits.
In 1927 they returned to Reno and settled on the Martin Ranch near Galena in 1930.
Crutchfield was a cousin of Will Rogers, had played with him, Mae West and many others in a long show business career. He was in many cowboy melodramas in the early part of the century and had played one-night stands all over the nation. He had also been on stage in England and Scotland with the late Harry Lauder.
Mrs. Crutchfield had been ill for some time and had moved from the family ranch to a rest home only a short time ago.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two cousins, Kenneth and Helen Stillenwerf of Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 pm in Ross-Burke Chapel with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal clergyman.
Private burial will follow at the Crutchfield Cemetery on the ranch. (Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada, May 26, 1958)
Daughter of Edwin Bartlett Meeks & Emma (Stellenwerf) Meeks.
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