Clifford Burgess Killed by Train
His car demolished when struck by the southbound Southern Pacific Cascade train on a private crossing between Hubbard and Woodburn late Monday afternoon, Clifford C. Burgess, 65, was killed on his way to his Woodburn home from Canby.
Clifford Burgess was born Sept. 13 1895, in Oklahoma, and spent his early years at Kingfisher. He was 16 when he came to Oregon and Canby, and was not quite 21 when he and Josephine Bradford were married July 11, 1916, at her mother's home, now Mrs. C. E. Johnson's residence, at S.W. First and Elm. Their home for five years was in the Riverside district but part of the time were in Bremerton, Wash., where he worked in the shipyards in World War I.
Early in 1922 they moved to Astoria where he entered the building field as a contractor. He built many houses in Astoria and did much remodeling and reconstruction work following the fire of 1922. As a general contractor he built the Seaside high school and buildings at Newport and Depoe Bay, and was a government concrete inspector on Bonneville Dam during its construction. Mr. Burgess had been a builder and contractor nearly 40 years. He owned the former Canby Theater building, which he remodeled in 1958 for occupancy by several tenants, and built and owned the office clinic of Dr. Ted J. Pryor in the same block. He had also built the Horner duplex, Charles Driggers and Verle Nielsen residences, all in the North Grant Street Knight's Bridge road vicinity.
He had been joined in Burgess Construction Co. by a nephew, Lloyd Burgess, before moving to Woodburn in 1950, when the nephew expanded operations and relocated in Alaska., Mr. Burgess went north each summer through 1958 to serve as foreman for the firm, helping build many of the buildings on the University of Alaska campus and in downtown Fairbanks, and doing construction at Kotzebue and other points.
He had cared for Mrs. Burgess during her three-year illness, terminating in her passing last Dec. 20. He was the father of John Bradford Burgess, Canby furniture and appliance dealer, and of A. Harvey Burgess, who completed 23 years of Army service in late April and is now a deputy sheriff at Albuquerque, N.M. He also leaves six grandchildren--Linda, Joanne, Terri and Steven Burgess of Canby, Clyde of St. Louis, MO., and Norton of Albuquerque.
His only brother, Estil E. Burgess and his wife had been with at Woodburn last weekend, after a winter's stay in Mesa, Ariz., and were en route to their Redmond home Monday at the time of his death. Besides the brother, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. George (Mae) Mills of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Elbert (Myrtle) Ausve of San Mateo, Calif.
Mr. Burgess was a member of Woodburn Christian church and of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Astoria.
Funeral services are announced for Thursday at 1:30 standard time (2:30 daylight time) in the Ringo-Cornwell chapel in Woodburn. Vault intermnet will be in Zion Memorial park at Canby, beside his wife. The Rev. DeVere Penhollow of the Powell Butte Christian church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. George Springer of Woodburn church. Pallbearers will be Gus Croissant, R. W. Sanford, Alton Douthit, J. F. Horn and W. O. Green of Woodburn, and Jim Cummings of Portland.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], May 25, 1961, page 1, 6
His car demolished when struck by the southbound Southern Pacific Cascade train on a private crossing between Hubbard and Woodburn late Monday afternoon, Clifford C. Burgess, 65, was killed on his way to his Woodburn home from Canby.
Clifford Burgess was born Sept. 13 1895, in Oklahoma, and spent his early years at Kingfisher. He was 16 when he came to Oregon and Canby, and was not quite 21 when he and Josephine Bradford were married July 11, 1916, at her mother's home, now Mrs. C. E. Johnson's residence, at S.W. First and Elm. Their home for five years was in the Riverside district but part of the time were in Bremerton, Wash., where he worked in the shipyards in World War I.
Early in 1922 they moved to Astoria where he entered the building field as a contractor. He built many houses in Astoria and did much remodeling and reconstruction work following the fire of 1922. As a general contractor he built the Seaside high school and buildings at Newport and Depoe Bay, and was a government concrete inspector on Bonneville Dam during its construction. Mr. Burgess had been a builder and contractor nearly 40 years. He owned the former Canby Theater building, which he remodeled in 1958 for occupancy by several tenants, and built and owned the office clinic of Dr. Ted J. Pryor in the same block. He had also built the Horner duplex, Charles Driggers and Verle Nielsen residences, all in the North Grant Street Knight's Bridge road vicinity.
He had been joined in Burgess Construction Co. by a nephew, Lloyd Burgess, before moving to Woodburn in 1950, when the nephew expanded operations and relocated in Alaska., Mr. Burgess went north each summer through 1958 to serve as foreman for the firm, helping build many of the buildings on the University of Alaska campus and in downtown Fairbanks, and doing construction at Kotzebue and other points.
He had cared for Mrs. Burgess during her three-year illness, terminating in her passing last Dec. 20. He was the father of John Bradford Burgess, Canby furniture and appliance dealer, and of A. Harvey Burgess, who completed 23 years of Army service in late April and is now a deputy sheriff at Albuquerque, N.M. He also leaves six grandchildren--Linda, Joanne, Terri and Steven Burgess of Canby, Clyde of St. Louis, MO., and Norton of Albuquerque.
His only brother, Estil E. Burgess and his wife had been with at Woodburn last weekend, after a winter's stay in Mesa, Ariz., and were en route to their Redmond home Monday at the time of his death. Besides the brother, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. George (Mae) Mills of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Elbert (Myrtle) Ausve of San Mateo, Calif.
Mr. Burgess was a member of Woodburn Christian church and of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Astoria.
Funeral services are announced for Thursday at 1:30 standard time (2:30 daylight time) in the Ringo-Cornwell chapel in Woodburn. Vault intermnet will be in Zion Memorial park at Canby, beside his wife. The Rev. DeVere Penhollow of the Powell Butte Christian church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. George Springer of Woodburn church. Pallbearers will be Gus Croissant, R. W. Sanford, Alton Douthit, J. F. Horn and W. O. Green of Woodburn, and Jim Cummings of Portland.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], May 25, 1961, page 1, 6
Clifford Burgess Killed by Train
His car demolished when struck by the southbound Southern Pacific Cascade train on a private crossing between Hubbard and Woodburn late Monday afternoon, Clifford C. Burgess, 65, was killed on his way to his Woodburn home from Canby.
Clifford Burgess was born Sept. 13 1895, in Oklahoma, and spent his early years at Kingfisher. He was 16 when he came to Oregon and Canby, and was not quite 21 when he and Josephine Bradford were married July 11, 1916, at her mother's home, now Mrs. C. E. Johnson's residence, at S.W. First and Elm. Their home for five years was in the Riverside district but part of the time were in Bremerton, Wash., where he worked in the shipyards in World War I.
Early in 1922 they moved to Astoria where he entered the building field as a contractor. He built many houses in Astoria and did much remodeling and reconstruction work following the fire of 1922. As a general contractor he built the Seaside high school and buildings at Newport and Depoe Bay, and was a government concrete inspector on Bonneville Dam during its construction. Mr. Burgess had been a builder and contractor nearly 40 years. He owned the former Canby Theater building, which he remodeled in 1958 for occupancy by several tenants, and built and owned the office clinic of Dr. Ted J. Pryor in the same block. He had also built the Horner duplex, Charles Driggers and Verle Nielsen residences, all in the North Grant Street Knight's Bridge road vicinity.
He had been joined in Burgess Construction Co. by a nephew, Lloyd Burgess, before moving to Woodburn in 1950, when the nephew expanded operations and relocated in Alaska., Mr. Burgess went north each summer through 1958 to serve as foreman for the firm, helping build many of the buildings on the University of Alaska campus and in downtown Fairbanks, and doing construction at Kotzebue and other points.
He had cared for Mrs. Burgess during her three-year illness, terminating in her passing last Dec. 20. He was the father of John Bradford Burgess, Canby furniture and appliance dealer, and of A. Harvey Burgess, who completed 23 years of Army service in late April and is now a deputy sheriff at Albuquerque, N.M. He also leaves six grandchildren--Linda, Joanne, Terri and Steven Burgess of Canby, Clyde of St. Louis, MO., and Norton of Albuquerque.
His only brother, Estil E. Burgess and his wife had been with at Woodburn last weekend, after a winter's stay in Mesa, Ariz., and were en route to their Redmond home Monday at the time of his death. Besides the brother, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. George (Mae) Mills of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Elbert (Myrtle) Ausve of San Mateo, Calif.
Mr. Burgess was a member of Woodburn Christian church and of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Astoria.
Funeral services are announced for Thursday at 1:30 standard time (2:30 daylight time) in the Ringo-Cornwell chapel in Woodburn. Vault intermnet will be in Zion Memorial park at Canby, beside his wife. The Rev. DeVere Penhollow of the Powell Butte Christian church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. George Springer of Woodburn church. Pallbearers will be Gus Croissant, R. W. Sanford, Alton Douthit, J. F. Horn and W. O. Green of Woodburn, and Jim Cummings of Portland.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], May 25, 1961, page 1, 6
His car demolished when struck by the southbound Southern Pacific Cascade train on a private crossing between Hubbard and Woodburn late Monday afternoon, Clifford C. Burgess, 65, was killed on his way to his Woodburn home from Canby.
Clifford Burgess was born Sept. 13 1895, in Oklahoma, and spent his early years at Kingfisher. He was 16 when he came to Oregon and Canby, and was not quite 21 when he and Josephine Bradford were married July 11, 1916, at her mother's home, now Mrs. C. E. Johnson's residence, at S.W. First and Elm. Their home for five years was in the Riverside district but part of the time were in Bremerton, Wash., where he worked in the shipyards in World War I.
Early in 1922 they moved to Astoria where he entered the building field as a contractor. He built many houses in Astoria and did much remodeling and reconstruction work following the fire of 1922. As a general contractor he built the Seaside high school and buildings at Newport and Depoe Bay, and was a government concrete inspector on Bonneville Dam during its construction. Mr. Burgess had been a builder and contractor nearly 40 years. He owned the former Canby Theater building, which he remodeled in 1958 for occupancy by several tenants, and built and owned the office clinic of Dr. Ted J. Pryor in the same block. He had also built the Horner duplex, Charles Driggers and Verle Nielsen residences, all in the North Grant Street Knight's Bridge road vicinity.
He had been joined in Burgess Construction Co. by a nephew, Lloyd Burgess, before moving to Woodburn in 1950, when the nephew expanded operations and relocated in Alaska., Mr. Burgess went north each summer through 1958 to serve as foreman for the firm, helping build many of the buildings on the University of Alaska campus and in downtown Fairbanks, and doing construction at Kotzebue and other points.
He had cared for Mrs. Burgess during her three-year illness, terminating in her passing last Dec. 20. He was the father of John Bradford Burgess, Canby furniture and appliance dealer, and of A. Harvey Burgess, who completed 23 years of Army service in late April and is now a deputy sheriff at Albuquerque, N.M. He also leaves six grandchildren--Linda, Joanne, Terri and Steven Burgess of Canby, Clyde of St. Louis, MO., and Norton of Albuquerque.
His only brother, Estil E. Burgess and his wife had been with at Woodburn last weekend, after a winter's stay in Mesa, Ariz., and were en route to their Redmond home Monday at the time of his death. Besides the brother, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. George (Mae) Mills of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Elbert (Myrtle) Ausve of San Mateo, Calif.
Mr. Burgess was a member of Woodburn Christian church and of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Astoria.
Funeral services are announced for Thursday at 1:30 standard time (2:30 daylight time) in the Ringo-Cornwell chapel in Woodburn. Vault intermnet will be in Zion Memorial park at Canby, beside his wife. The Rev. DeVere Penhollow of the Powell Butte Christian church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. George Springer of Woodburn church. Pallbearers will be Gus Croissant, R. W. Sanford, Alton Douthit, J. F. Horn and W. O. Green of Woodburn, and Jim Cummings of Portland.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], May 25, 1961, page 1, 6
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