Funeral services for Dr. Martin D. Westley, pioneer Griggs County physician, were held from the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown Monday afternoon of this week following his death in Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis last Thursday, where he had been a surgical patient. He had been a patient there three weeks.
Numbered among the few remaining pioneer of that period, he came to this country with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Westley, from Norway in 1882, as a child nine years of age, and had made his home in the county since that time with the exception of time spent pursuing his education, and earning money to continue it.
Rev. W. Ray Radliff conducted the service and burial was made in the Cooperstown Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. F. W. Rose, George H. Johnston, L. A. Sayer, H. G. Hammer, J. A. Skofstad and Tupper Howden. The Presbyterian choir, the high school boys' quartet, composed of students from Sverdrup township where he received his early education, and Prof. Lydell of the music department of Valley City State Teachers College, furnished music at the last rites.
Born in 1873
Dr. Westley was born near Stavanger, Norway. On the family's arrival in Griggs County young Westley took advantage of the poor facilities for education that pioneer life afforded, and determined to pursue his education further. Cooperstown schools at that time provided no opportunity for furtherance of that education and he enrolled in Red Wing Academy in Minnesota. Afterwards he taught school in this county and near Breckenridge, Minn., to earn money with which to continue his education further; and late enrolled at Hamline University in St. Paul. Still later he attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., now Temple University; and afterwards established his medical practice in Cooperstown where he has lived ever since. That was in 1904.
Enlists in World War I
The outbreak of World War I found him leaving a lucrative practice in Cooperstown and enlisting in the service of his country as an officer in the medical corps, from which he was discharged as a captain. He served with the famous 26th Division and participated in the Meuse-Argonne and Chateau Thierry campaigns; later went into the German army of occupation.
In February, 1911, he had married Miss Eva Hutchinson, member of the local school faculty, who died in June, 1923. January 1, 1925, he was again married to Miss Margaret Hutchinson who, with three sons and a daughter, survive. They are: Richard O., of Chicago; Bruce H., of Little Common, Mass., recently discharged from the army; Capt. Kent F., with the army medical corps in Germany; and Ruth Ann, student at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. All had been with at his bedside, but Bruce was unable to be present at the funeral.
Prominent Locally
Dr. Westley's life was a saga of "local boy made good." He was prominent in local, medical and church affairs. He served several years as a member of the local school board, was the first scout master in Cooperstown, an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years, member of the committee on maternal and child welfare of the North Dakota Medical Association for many years, member of the American Medical Association, the state organization and the Sheyenne Valley subdivision of that organization; the American Legion, the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges. The Legion furnished a firing squad at the graveside service.
Many At Funeral
Dr. Westley's funeral was the largest that has been held in Cooperstown in recent years. The Presbyterian Church was entirely inadequate to hold the crowd which came to pay last respects. An overflow assemblage was held in the basement of the church, with loudspeakers carrying the sermon to them.
Out of town attendants at the funeral, besides the immediate family were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sigdestad, Moorhead; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Flesjer, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Lunde, Hannaford; Julius Westley, Grand Forks; William Westley, Jamestown; Oscar Westley, Bismarck; Harry Westley, Bowman; Mrs. Chas. Read, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. William Nicholls, Miss Harriet Ashland, Dr. Nels Tronnes, Mrs. Eugenia Burr, Mrs. Gin Udgaard, Miss Mildred Udgaard, Fargo; Miss Vera Bollinger, Valley City; Miss Anna Westley, Minneapolis; Mrs. Christine Lunde, Valley City; Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Stone, Minneapolis; Mrs. Byron Stone, Oconto, Wis.; and District Judge and Mrs. W. H. Hutchinson of Wahpeton.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, April 4, 1946.
Numbered among the few remaining pioneer of that period, he came to this country with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Westley, from Norway in 1882, as a child nine years of age, and had made his home in the county since that time with the exception of time spent pursuing his education, and earning money to continue it.
Rev. W. Ray Radliff conducted the service and burial was made in the Cooperstown Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. F. W. Rose, George H. Johnston, L. A. Sayer, H. G. Hammer, J. A. Skofstad and Tupper Howden. The Presbyterian choir, the high school boys' quartet, composed of students from Sverdrup township where he received his early education, and Prof. Lydell of the music department of Valley City State Teachers College, furnished music at the last rites.
Born in 1873
Dr. Westley was born near Stavanger, Norway. On the family's arrival in Griggs County young Westley took advantage of the poor facilities for education that pioneer life afforded, and determined to pursue his education further. Cooperstown schools at that time provided no opportunity for furtherance of that education and he enrolled in Red Wing Academy in Minnesota. Afterwards he taught school in this county and near Breckenridge, Minn., to earn money with which to continue his education further; and late enrolled at Hamline University in St. Paul. Still later he attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., now Temple University; and afterwards established his medical practice in Cooperstown where he has lived ever since. That was in 1904.
Enlists in World War I
The outbreak of World War I found him leaving a lucrative practice in Cooperstown and enlisting in the service of his country as an officer in the medical corps, from which he was discharged as a captain. He served with the famous 26th Division and participated in the Meuse-Argonne and Chateau Thierry campaigns; later went into the German army of occupation.
In February, 1911, he had married Miss Eva Hutchinson, member of the local school faculty, who died in June, 1923. January 1, 1925, he was again married to Miss Margaret Hutchinson who, with three sons and a daughter, survive. They are: Richard O., of Chicago; Bruce H., of Little Common, Mass., recently discharged from the army; Capt. Kent F., with the army medical corps in Germany; and Ruth Ann, student at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. All had been with at his bedside, but Bruce was unable to be present at the funeral.
Prominent Locally
Dr. Westley's life was a saga of "local boy made good." He was prominent in local, medical and church affairs. He served several years as a member of the local school board, was the first scout master in Cooperstown, an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years, member of the committee on maternal and child welfare of the North Dakota Medical Association for many years, member of the American Medical Association, the state organization and the Sheyenne Valley subdivision of that organization; the American Legion, the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges. The Legion furnished a firing squad at the graveside service.
Many At Funeral
Dr. Westley's funeral was the largest that has been held in Cooperstown in recent years. The Presbyterian Church was entirely inadequate to hold the crowd which came to pay last respects. An overflow assemblage was held in the basement of the church, with loudspeakers carrying the sermon to them.
Out of town attendants at the funeral, besides the immediate family were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sigdestad, Moorhead; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Flesjer, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Lunde, Hannaford; Julius Westley, Grand Forks; William Westley, Jamestown; Oscar Westley, Bismarck; Harry Westley, Bowman; Mrs. Chas. Read, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. William Nicholls, Miss Harriet Ashland, Dr. Nels Tronnes, Mrs. Eugenia Burr, Mrs. Gin Udgaard, Miss Mildred Udgaard, Fargo; Miss Vera Bollinger, Valley City; Miss Anna Westley, Minneapolis; Mrs. Christine Lunde, Valley City; Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Stone, Minneapolis; Mrs. Byron Stone, Oconto, Wis.; and District Judge and Mrs. W. H. Hutchinson of Wahpeton.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, April 4, 1946.
Funeral services for Dr. Martin D. Westley, pioneer Griggs County physician, were held from the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown Monday afternoon of this week following his death in Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis last Thursday, where he had been a surgical patient. He had been a patient there three weeks.
Numbered among the few remaining pioneer of that period, he came to this country with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Westley, from Norway in 1882, as a child nine years of age, and had made his home in the county since that time with the exception of time spent pursuing his education, and earning money to continue it.
Rev. W. Ray Radliff conducted the service and burial was made in the Cooperstown Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. F. W. Rose, George H. Johnston, L. A. Sayer, H. G. Hammer, J. A. Skofstad and Tupper Howden. The Presbyterian choir, the high school boys' quartet, composed of students from Sverdrup township where he received his early education, and Prof. Lydell of the music department of Valley City State Teachers College, furnished music at the last rites.
Born in 1873
Dr. Westley was born near Stavanger, Norway. On the family's arrival in Griggs County young Westley took advantage of the poor facilities for education that pioneer life afforded, and determined to pursue his education further. Cooperstown schools at that time provided no opportunity for furtherance of that education and he enrolled in Red Wing Academy in Minnesota. Afterwards he taught school in this county and near Breckenridge, Minn., to earn money with which to continue his education further; and late enrolled at Hamline University in St. Paul. Still later he attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., now Temple University; and afterwards established his medical practice in Cooperstown where he has lived ever since. That was in 1904.
Enlists in World War I
The outbreak of World War I found him leaving a lucrative practice in Cooperstown and enlisting in the service of his country as an officer in the medical corps, from which he was discharged as a captain. He served with the famous 26th Division and participated in the Meuse-Argonne and Chateau Thierry campaigns; later went into the German army of occupation.
In February, 1911, he had married Miss Eva Hutchinson, member of the local school faculty, who died in June, 1923. January 1, 1925, he was again married to Miss Margaret Hutchinson who, with three sons and a daughter, survive. They are: Richard O., of Chicago; Bruce H., of Little Common, Mass., recently discharged from the army; Capt. Kent F., with the army medical corps in Germany; and Ruth Ann, student at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. All had been with at his bedside, but Bruce was unable to be present at the funeral.
Prominent Locally
Dr. Westley's life was a saga of "local boy made good." He was prominent in local, medical and church affairs. He served several years as a member of the local school board, was the first scout master in Cooperstown, an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years, member of the committee on maternal and child welfare of the North Dakota Medical Association for many years, member of the American Medical Association, the state organization and the Sheyenne Valley subdivision of that organization; the American Legion, the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges. The Legion furnished a firing squad at the graveside service.
Many At Funeral
Dr. Westley's funeral was the largest that has been held in Cooperstown in recent years. The Presbyterian Church was entirely inadequate to hold the crowd which came to pay last respects. An overflow assemblage was held in the basement of the church, with loudspeakers carrying the sermon to them.
Out of town attendants at the funeral, besides the immediate family were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sigdestad, Moorhead; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Flesjer, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Lunde, Hannaford; Julius Westley, Grand Forks; William Westley, Jamestown; Oscar Westley, Bismarck; Harry Westley, Bowman; Mrs. Chas. Read, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. William Nicholls, Miss Harriet Ashland, Dr. Nels Tronnes, Mrs. Eugenia Burr, Mrs. Gin Udgaard, Miss Mildred Udgaard, Fargo; Miss Vera Bollinger, Valley City; Miss Anna Westley, Minneapolis; Mrs. Christine Lunde, Valley City; Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Stone, Minneapolis; Mrs. Byron Stone, Oconto, Wis.; and District Judge and Mrs. W. H. Hutchinson of Wahpeton.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, April 4, 1946.
Numbered among the few remaining pioneer of that period, he came to this country with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Westley, from Norway in 1882, as a child nine years of age, and had made his home in the county since that time with the exception of time spent pursuing his education, and earning money to continue it.
Rev. W. Ray Radliff conducted the service and burial was made in the Cooperstown Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. F. W. Rose, George H. Johnston, L. A. Sayer, H. G. Hammer, J. A. Skofstad and Tupper Howden. The Presbyterian choir, the high school boys' quartet, composed of students from Sverdrup township where he received his early education, and Prof. Lydell of the music department of Valley City State Teachers College, furnished music at the last rites.
Born in 1873
Dr. Westley was born near Stavanger, Norway. On the family's arrival in Griggs County young Westley took advantage of the poor facilities for education that pioneer life afforded, and determined to pursue his education further. Cooperstown schools at that time provided no opportunity for furtherance of that education and he enrolled in Red Wing Academy in Minnesota. Afterwards he taught school in this county and near Breckenridge, Minn., to earn money with which to continue his education further; and late enrolled at Hamline University in St. Paul. Still later he attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., now Temple University; and afterwards established his medical practice in Cooperstown where he has lived ever since. That was in 1904.
Enlists in World War I
The outbreak of World War I found him leaving a lucrative practice in Cooperstown and enlisting in the service of his country as an officer in the medical corps, from which he was discharged as a captain. He served with the famous 26th Division and participated in the Meuse-Argonne and Chateau Thierry campaigns; later went into the German army of occupation.
In February, 1911, he had married Miss Eva Hutchinson, member of the local school faculty, who died in June, 1923. January 1, 1925, he was again married to Miss Margaret Hutchinson who, with three sons and a daughter, survive. They are: Richard O., of Chicago; Bruce H., of Little Common, Mass., recently discharged from the army; Capt. Kent F., with the army medical corps in Germany; and Ruth Ann, student at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. All had been with at his bedside, but Bruce was unable to be present at the funeral.
Prominent Locally
Dr. Westley's life was a saga of "local boy made good." He was prominent in local, medical and church affairs. He served several years as a member of the local school board, was the first scout master in Cooperstown, an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years, member of the committee on maternal and child welfare of the North Dakota Medical Association for many years, member of the American Medical Association, the state organization and the Sheyenne Valley subdivision of that organization; the American Legion, the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges. The Legion furnished a firing squad at the graveside service.
Many At Funeral
Dr. Westley's funeral was the largest that has been held in Cooperstown in recent years. The Presbyterian Church was entirely inadequate to hold the crowd which came to pay last respects. An overflow assemblage was held in the basement of the church, with loudspeakers carrying the sermon to them.
Out of town attendants at the funeral, besides the immediate family were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sigdestad, Moorhead; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Flesjer, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Lunde, Hannaford; Julius Westley, Grand Forks; William Westley, Jamestown; Oscar Westley, Bismarck; Harry Westley, Bowman; Mrs. Chas. Read, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. William Nicholls, Miss Harriet Ashland, Dr. Nels Tronnes, Mrs. Eugenia Burr, Mrs. Gin Udgaard, Miss Mildred Udgaard, Fargo; Miss Vera Bollinger, Valley City; Miss Anna Westley, Minneapolis; Mrs. Christine Lunde, Valley City; Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Stone, Minneapolis; Mrs. Byron Stone, Oconto, Wis.; and District Judge and Mrs. W. H. Hutchinson of Wahpeton.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, April 4, 1946.
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