Norman and Elizabeth Ace Obituaries

ACE Family Information
 
Husband: Norman
Wife: Elizabeth Etta "Lizzie" DeWester
Children: Leora, Raymond, Alice and Arthur

Haxtun Harvest, Haxtun, Colorado, December 2, 1926
 
MRS. NORMAN ACE BURIED AT HAXTUN THIS AFTERNOON
Death Occurred November 30 At Sterling Hospital. Became Ill While Visiting With Relatives In The East
 
Lizzie E. Ace, wife of Norman Ace of Haxtun, was born in Indiana, August 16, 1871, and died at Sterling, Colorado November 30, 1926, at the age of 55 years, 3 months and 14 days. She had been in poor health for several weeks. The illness which ended in her death began while she was on a visit in the east last fall.
 
She moved with her family to Nebraska when she was 8 years of age, where she lived until after her marriage near Hastings, Nebraska, in 1889. With her husband she had made her home in Colorado near Haxtun since 1912.
 
She is survived by her husband and four children. The children are: Arthur Ace of Alliance, Nebraska, Raymond Ace of Haxtun, Mrs. Alice Forster of Denver and Mrs. Leora Carrigan of Proctor. There are also 12 grandchildren and many friends who will mourn the loss of a loving wife, a dutiful mother and a good friend.
 
There are four brothers and one sister surviving.
 
Mrs. Ace was a member of the Methodist church in Nebraska, near Hastings. Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church in Haxtun this afternoon. Rev. A.P. Gaines, pastor, preached the funeral sermon. Interment was in the Haxtun cemetery.
 
 
Elizabeth Etta "Lizzie" DeWester Ace

Haxtun Harvest, Haxtun, Colorado, July 10, 1940
 
ACCIDENT CAUSED DEATH OF FORMER HAXTUN RESIDENT
 
Funeral for Norman Ace Here Next Saturday; Car Hit Train in Denver
 
Norman Ace, former resident of the Haxtun community who had been living in Denver the past 12 years, was fatally injured Sunday evening when his car struck a passenger train in south Denver.
 
The body will be brought to Haxtun, and funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock from the Methodist church. Rev. R.W. Drummond will preach the funeral sermon, and the Radford Funeral Home will have charge of arrangements. Burial will be in the Haxtun cemetery.
 
Mr. Ace was returning home from a visit with his granddaughter, Mrs. Lavera Tonini of Englewood, when the accident occurred. Mr. Ace had been to the mountains Sunday with his granddaughter and her family.
 
It was believed Mr. Ace failed to see the southbound passenger train approaching, did not have time to stop, and drove into the side of the engine. Mr. Ace was hurled 50 feet by the impact, and it was thought he died instantly. The sedan, in which he was riding alone, was wrecked and strewn along the track a distance of 100 feet.
 
Mr. Ace was 76 years of age. He was born May 22, 1864 in Pennsylvania, and moved to Nebraska as a youth. He came to the Haxtun community and was engaged in farming northwest of town for more than 12 years. Mrs. Ace passed away while the family lived at Haxtun.
 
Those surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Leora Carrigan of Sterling; two sons, Raymond of Denver and Arthur of Harrison, Nebraska; a son-in-law, J.W. Forster of Denver, whose wife died two years ago; 19 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
 
 
NORMAN ACE

---