Stroke Claims Billings Farmer
Death Follows Injury in Fall
Roy Axtell, 56, farmer in Yellowstone county since 1936 who lived five miles east of Billings, died in a local hospital at 1p.m. Friday of a stroke resulting from a brain concussion incurred when he fell and hit his head on a mower at his farm last Friday. He had been in the hospital since last Saturday morning.
He was born in Carleton, Neb., on Sept. 11, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Axtell. When he was 17 years old, his family moved to Montana, where he later owned a horse ranch near Judith Gap. On Dec. 2, 1913, he married Anna Cichon at Glasgow and in 1936 they came to Yellowstone county.
Surviving are his widow; two sons, Leroy, who lives at home, and Private First Class William Axtell, with the army at Camp McCoy, Wis.; two daughters, Mary, who lives at home, and Mrs. Rienhold Kober, east of Billings; one brother, Archie, of Los Angeles, Cal., and one grandson.
The body is at the Smith funeral home.
...Billings Gazette. Saturday, August 21, 1943
Death Follows Injury in Fall
Roy Axtell, 56, farmer in Yellowstone county since 1936 who lived five miles east of Billings, died in a local hospital at 1p.m. Friday of a stroke resulting from a brain concussion incurred when he fell and hit his head on a mower at his farm last Friday. He had been in the hospital since last Saturday morning.
He was born in Carleton, Neb., on Sept. 11, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Axtell. When he was 17 years old, his family moved to Montana, where he later owned a horse ranch near Judith Gap. On Dec. 2, 1913, he married Anna Cichon at Glasgow and in 1936 they came to Yellowstone county.
Surviving are his widow; two sons, Leroy, who lives at home, and Private First Class William Axtell, with the army at Camp McCoy, Wis.; two daughters, Mary, who lives at home, and Mrs. Rienhold Kober, east of Billings; one brother, Archie, of Los Angeles, Cal., and one grandson.
The body is at the Smith funeral home.
...Billings Gazette. Saturday, August 21, 1943
Stroke Claims Billings Farmer
Death Follows Injury in Fall
Roy Axtell, 56, farmer in Yellowstone county since 1936 who lived five miles east of Billings, died in a local hospital at 1p.m. Friday of a stroke resulting from a brain concussion incurred when he fell and hit his head on a mower at his farm last Friday. He had been in the hospital since last Saturday morning.
He was born in Carleton, Neb., on Sept. 11, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Axtell. When he was 17 years old, his family moved to Montana, where he later owned a horse ranch near Judith Gap. On Dec. 2, 1913, he married Anna Cichon at Glasgow and in 1936 they came to Yellowstone county.
Surviving are his widow; two sons, Leroy, who lives at home, and Private First Class William Axtell, with the army at Camp McCoy, Wis.; two daughters, Mary, who lives at home, and Mrs. Rienhold Kober, east of Billings; one brother, Archie, of Los Angeles, Cal., and one grandson.
The body is at the Smith funeral home.
...Billings Gazette. Saturday, August 21, 1943
Death Follows Injury in Fall
Roy Axtell, 56, farmer in Yellowstone county since 1936 who lived five miles east of Billings, died in a local hospital at 1p.m. Friday of a stroke resulting from a brain concussion incurred when he fell and hit his head on a mower at his farm last Friday. He had been in the hospital since last Saturday morning.
He was born in Carleton, Neb., on Sept. 11, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Axtell. When he was 17 years old, his family moved to Montana, where he later owned a horse ranch near Judith Gap. On Dec. 2, 1913, he married Anna Cichon at Glasgow and in 1936 they came to Yellowstone county.
Surviving are his widow; two sons, Leroy, who lives at home, and Private First Class William Axtell, with the army at Camp McCoy, Wis.; two daughters, Mary, who lives at home, and Mrs. Rienhold Kober, east of Billings; one brother, Archie, of Los Angeles, Cal., and one grandson.
The body is at the Smith funeral home.
...Billings Gazette. Saturday, August 21, 1943
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