Rock Springs Miner, Apr 12, 1959
MRS. SAM STARK
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Stark, 72, were held Thursday in the First Methodist church in Lander.
Mrs. Stark was a former longtime resident of Rock Springs and died in Sweetwater Memorial hospital here Monday.
She was born Effie Elizabeth Baxter Sept. 9, 1886, in Shellbyville, Ill., and was married May 20, 1903, to Sam Stark in Eldorado Springs, Mo., where they lived for five years before homesteading on Silver creek in the Pinedale-Boulder area. They moved to Rock Springs in 1918 where Mr. Stark was insurance salesman for the old First National bank. In 1931 they moved to Boulder to enter the sheep and cattle business until 1950 when they went into the ranching business two miles south of Lander. In 1953 they moved into Lander.
Mrs. Stark served the Rock Springs Red Cross chapter as chairman for ten years and served the Pinedale chapter in the same capacity for ten years. While a resident here she was an active member of First Congregational church and in Lander she affiliated with the Methodist church.
Survivors are her husband, three daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Two sons, Murray and Sidney, died in Rock Springs during the influenza epidemic of 1920.
The sons and daughters are Jessie Stark, Mrs. Dorotha Wilson, both of Lander; Mrs. Raino (Enid) Matson of Stansbury and Ernest F. Stark of Farson. All members of her immediate family visited here during her weeks of hospitalization in Rock Springs.
Also surviving are a brother and a sister, Sid Baxter and Mrs. Lilly Groves, both of Eldorado Springs, Mo., who with Mrs. Sid Baxter went to Lander for the funeral and burial services.
The Rev. Charles Jones conducted the rites and burial was in Lander’s Mount Hope cemetery. Pallbearers were Bruce Bradley, Randall Boyer, Don Becker, Kenneth Danielson, Ray ?iamis and Ray McRae, all of Lander.
The Rev. Homer Crisman of Lander, a former Rock Springs Methodist minister, was one of seven honorary pallbearers.
MRS. SAM STARK
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Stark, 72, were held Thursday in the First Methodist church in Lander.
Mrs. Stark was a former longtime resident of Rock Springs and died in Sweetwater Memorial hospital here Monday.
She was born Effie Elizabeth Baxter Sept. 9, 1886, in Shellbyville, Ill., and was married May 20, 1903, to Sam Stark in Eldorado Springs, Mo., where they lived for five years before homesteading on Silver creek in the Pinedale-Boulder area. They moved to Rock Springs in 1918 where Mr. Stark was insurance salesman for the old First National bank. In 1931 they moved to Boulder to enter the sheep and cattle business until 1950 when they went into the ranching business two miles south of Lander. In 1953 they moved into Lander.
Mrs. Stark served the Rock Springs Red Cross chapter as chairman for ten years and served the Pinedale chapter in the same capacity for ten years. While a resident here she was an active member of First Congregational church and in Lander she affiliated with the Methodist church.
Survivors are her husband, three daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Two sons, Murray and Sidney, died in Rock Springs during the influenza epidemic of 1920.
The sons and daughters are Jessie Stark, Mrs. Dorotha Wilson, both of Lander; Mrs. Raino (Enid) Matson of Stansbury and Ernest F. Stark of Farson. All members of her immediate family visited here during her weeks of hospitalization in Rock Springs.
Also surviving are a brother and a sister, Sid Baxter and Mrs. Lilly Groves, both of Eldorado Springs, Mo., who with Mrs. Sid Baxter went to Lander for the funeral and burial services.
The Rev. Charles Jones conducted the rites and burial was in Lander’s Mount Hope cemetery. Pallbearers were Bruce Bradley, Randall Boyer, Don Becker, Kenneth Danielson, Ray ?iamis and Ray McRae, all of Lander.
The Rev. Homer Crisman of Lander, a former Rock Springs Methodist minister, was one of seven honorary pallbearers.
Rock Springs Miner, Apr 12, 1959
MRS. SAM STARK
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Stark, 72, were held Thursday in the First Methodist church in Lander.
Mrs. Stark was a former longtime resident of Rock Springs and died in Sweetwater Memorial hospital here Monday.
She was born Effie Elizabeth Baxter Sept. 9, 1886, in Shellbyville, Ill., and was married May 20, 1903, to Sam Stark in Eldorado Springs, Mo., where they lived for five years before homesteading on Silver creek in the Pinedale-Boulder area. They moved to Rock Springs in 1918 where Mr. Stark was insurance salesman for the old First National bank. In 1931 they moved to Boulder to enter the sheep and cattle business until 1950 when they went into the ranching business two miles south of Lander. In 1953 they moved into Lander.
Mrs. Stark served the Rock Springs Red Cross chapter as chairman for ten years and served the Pinedale chapter in the same capacity for ten years. While a resident here she was an active member of First Congregational church and in Lander she affiliated with the Methodist church.
Survivors are her husband, three daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Two sons, Murray and Sidney, died in Rock Springs during the influenza epidemic of 1920.
The sons and daughters are Jessie Stark, Mrs. Dorotha Wilson, both of Lander; Mrs. Raino (Enid) Matson of Stansbury and Ernest F. Stark of Farson. All members of her immediate family visited here during her weeks of hospitalization in Rock Springs.
Also surviving are a brother and a sister, Sid Baxter and Mrs. Lilly Groves, both of Eldorado Springs, Mo., who with Mrs. Sid Baxter went to Lander for the funeral and burial services.
The Rev. Charles Jones conducted the rites and burial was in Lander’s Mount Hope cemetery. Pallbearers were Bruce Bradley, Randall Boyer, Don Becker, Kenneth Danielson, Ray ?iamis and Ray McRae, all of Lander.
The Rev. Homer Crisman of Lander, a former Rock Springs Methodist minister, was one of seven honorary pallbearers.
MRS. SAM STARK
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Stark, 72, were held Thursday in the First Methodist church in Lander.
Mrs. Stark was a former longtime resident of Rock Springs and died in Sweetwater Memorial hospital here Monday.
She was born Effie Elizabeth Baxter Sept. 9, 1886, in Shellbyville, Ill., and was married May 20, 1903, to Sam Stark in Eldorado Springs, Mo., where they lived for five years before homesteading on Silver creek in the Pinedale-Boulder area. They moved to Rock Springs in 1918 where Mr. Stark was insurance salesman for the old First National bank. In 1931 they moved to Boulder to enter the sheep and cattle business until 1950 when they went into the ranching business two miles south of Lander. In 1953 they moved into Lander.
Mrs. Stark served the Rock Springs Red Cross chapter as chairman for ten years and served the Pinedale chapter in the same capacity for ten years. While a resident here she was an active member of First Congregational church and in Lander she affiliated with the Methodist church.
Survivors are her husband, three daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Two sons, Murray and Sidney, died in Rock Springs during the influenza epidemic of 1920.
The sons and daughters are Jessie Stark, Mrs. Dorotha Wilson, both of Lander; Mrs. Raino (Enid) Matson of Stansbury and Ernest F. Stark of Farson. All members of her immediate family visited here during her weeks of hospitalization in Rock Springs.
Also surviving are a brother and a sister, Sid Baxter and Mrs. Lilly Groves, both of Eldorado Springs, Mo., who with Mrs. Sid Baxter went to Lander for the funeral and burial services.
The Rev. Charles Jones conducted the rites and burial was in Lander’s Mount Hope cemetery. Pallbearers were Bruce Bradley, Randall Boyer, Don Becker, Kenneth Danielson, Ray ?iamis and Ray McRae, all of Lander.
The Rev. Homer Crisman of Lander, a former Rock Springs Methodist minister, was one of seven honorary pallbearers.
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