Yuma County, Colorado Photographs

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William and Ann (Wells) Southwell, brother Charles Southwell

Mary Patterson was born in Mansfield, England, April 4, 1850 and died at her home near Republic, Kansas, on Monday morning, May 16,1892 at 12:40 aged 41 years, 1 month and 12 days. The deceased, when very small came to America with her parents who resided at St Louis, Mo., for awhile, thence removed to Marysville, MO where she became the wife of J.T Patterson on the 15th of February, While at Marysville the grim monster, death, entered this happy home and took from them a little two year old girl the pride, of the household. A number of years ago she. with her husband, came to Republic county, Kansas, settling near Republic City, where they have lived ever since. She leaves a loving husband and five children to mourn her loss, two other children having preceeded her to the land of eternal rest. In the death of Mrs. Patterson the husband loses a fond and loving helpmate, and the children an ever patient and devoted mother. She was a consistent member of the M.E. Church, and was beloved and highly respected by all who knew her. The funeral services were conducted under the auspices of the Odd Fellows of that place, of which Mr. Patterson was a staunch and worthy member. They formed in town headed by the Noble grand, D. A. Davie's. and drove to the house, where, after a sermon preached by Rev. Kerr, of Warwick, with open ranks the pall bearers, followed by the chief mourners passed down the long lines on their way to the Lake Cemetery where she was laid to rest. The Telescope extends sympathy to the bereaved family and friends of the deceased. FindaGrave # 107938492. WILLIAM G. William G. Southwell 1865-1934 is buried in Maitland, Missouri # 132758371. One of the leading contractors and builders of Holt County, Missouri was W.G. Southwell, an Illinoisan by birth, but raised in Maryville, Missouri, where he began his trade. He was associated with Win Wood, of Hebron, Nebraska, for a number of years and married Anna E. Heskett on May 12, 1886. They lived in Hebron after their marriage and five children were born; Harry Burton, William Winton, Rebecca Fay, Harry Linn, and Fred Bryan. Harry Burton and Harry Linn died at the ages of five and three, respectively. In 1895 they moved to Maitland when Mr. Southwell worked the first winter on the Broad Gage, then under construction. The next year he bought the Southwell home one block north on Main Street and lived there with his family until 1919 when he and Mrs. Southwell and grandmother Burke moved into their apartment over the office building he had erected on the site of the old Commercial Hotel. Here they resided until his death on July 9, 1934. The following winter Mrs. Southwell moved to Omaha to live with Fay, a teacher there in North High School. The home was not sold until several years later, and was eventually sold to Ralph Dysart. Mr. Southwell built many of the homes and public building in and around Maitland, among which are the Presbyterian Church, the floral hall on the fair grounds, and the Fleming house south of Graham. Win Southwell married Jennie Metcalf and was a certified public accountant at Klamath Falls, Oregon. Fred Southwell married Ruth Plodgett and they too, lived at Klamatha Falls, Oregon. They had Winifred Southwell on November 4, 1920 in Klamath Falls, Oregon. They had Margery Ann Southwell in 1924, who married Lewis Angle Hammers on April 11, 1942 in Benton County, Oregon. "In a simple ceremony read at the home of her parents, Miss Margery Anne Southwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winton W. Southwell of Summers lane, became the bride of Mr. Lewi A. Hammer on Saturday morning, April the eleventh, at ten o'clock. The Rev. Victor Phillip of the First Methodist presiding. Vows were exchanged before the living room fireplace banked with pink and white cherry blossoms, white stock and graceful ferns. Just before the ceremony Mr. Fred Southwell, uncle of the bride, sang "Margie" and . "Sweetheart of ATO." The bride, given in marriage by her father, was lovely in a frock of white sheer wool jersey fashioned with draped bodice, full short skirt and three quarters sleeves. She wore a white orchid in her hair. Mrs. James Stllwell, (Winifred Southwell), was her sister's only attendant. She wore yellow sheer wool frock of Jersey with high neckline, fitted bodice and full skirt. She wore yellow spray orchids in her hair. Mr. Stanley Czech of Harvey, Illinois, fraternity brother of the groom, was best man. Mrs. Elbert S. Veatch played Mendlessohn's wedding march as the bride entered the room. Immediately after the ceremony a reception was held on the porch where the bride cut her cake. The table was prettily appointed with pink rosebuds and maiden hair fern. Mrs. Stilwell served the cake and Mrs. Fred Southwell presided at the coffee urn. Early Saturday the young couple left for Portland to remain for a brief time before the bride resumed her teaching position at Rogue River high school, and the groom returned to his studies at Oregon State college. He will be graduated this June and enter the army as a second lieutenant. The bride is a popular member of the younger set, a graduate of Oregon State college where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hammers Sr.. of Harvey, is affiliated with Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and has played on the Beaver varsity football team for several years." "Margery was born on November 8, 1919 and passed away on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. Margery was a resident of Tucson, Arizona." March 15, 1942 "Of interest is the announcement of the marriage of Miss Winifred Southwell, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Southwell of Summers lane, who became the bride of Mr. James Stilwell, son of Mr, and Mrs. F, W. Stilwell of Bty. The ceremony was read at six o'clock Saturday evening, March the seventh, in the First Methodist church with the Rev. Dorlcw Johnson officiating. On Monday Mr. Stilwell left for Portland where he will enter the service of the United States navy, Mrs. Stilwell is remaining in Klamath Falls with her parents. The bride was attractive in a sheer wool suit of delphinium blue with black accessories ond a corsage of rosebuds. Her sister. Miss Margie Southwell, was her only attendant and wore a blue wool of a deeper tone. Her flowers were also rosebuds, Both the young people are members of well known Klamath families." "November 29, 2006 It's amazing Jim Stilwell didn't catch the first ride out of town. It was March 22, 1931, when the then-11-year-old Stilwell and his parents, Fred and Ica Mae, and seven brothers and sisters first arrived in Klamath Falls. "I wondered where in the world had they brought me," Stilwell says of his initial impressions of Klamath Falls. "The day we came we had a blizzard. For our first meal we stopped at the market and bought a bunch of pork chops that we cooked on a Coleman stove in the storm." After that, things improved, and 75 years later, the 86-year-old Stilwell still calls Klamath Falls home. And, despite his initial misgivings, he remains one of the community's strongest boosters and was instrumental in shaping life in Klamath Falls and its suburbs. "I chose to stay," Stilwell said. "Because I sure had the opportunities to get out of here. I'm darn proud of our town." Usually working behind the scenes, he was a successful real estate agent and investor who specialized in commercial and industrial proprieties. He helped form a Babe Ruth Baseball League, led a community effort to raise money for a hospital, built the Shasta Plaza Shopping Center and shaped the face of downtown. "I don't think there's very much on Main Street that at some time I wasn't involved in," he says. "There isn't much in this town I didn't have something to do with." A proud man, he's known for his snappy, well-tailored appearance, which usually includes a coat and tie and crisply ironed shirt and pants. But people learn quickly not to mistake him as merely a neat, docile, white-haired man. He refuses to submit meekly to what he views as bad decisions and challenges those he criticizes in a way that embodies his credo, "Attack with a tenacity of purpose." He remains both tenaciously proud and bitterly frustrated about what happened at the hospital he helped to build. "I think in the 40 years I was in business my proudest accomplishment was the hospital," says Stilwell, who in 1963 served as general chairman of what looked like an impossible feat to raise $725,000 to build the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital. When the campaign ended, the drive had collected $1.4 million. "I spent a lot of sleepless nights during the campaign," recalls Stilwell, who stepped aside from his job for the intense, and at the time, unprecedented, money-raising drive. But Stilwell says that accomplishment soured in 1979 when Merle West, a retired lumberman, donated $1 million to the hospital. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital changed its name to the Merle West Medical Center. "That was my biggest disappointment. This was the people's hospital," he insists, saying people who supported the campaign felt betrayed the name honors a single individual. "It was wrong. I'm damn hostile about it." Efforts to convince successive boards to rename the hospital only added to his frustration. Stilwell says boards and administrators refused to allow him to plead his case and told him another name change would be too costly. Other disappointments haunt him less. Stilwell represented the company that tore down the legendary Pelican Theater, but he says it happened only after city officials refused to accept it as a gift. Disappointing, too, was a decision by Winnebago, the maker of luxury motor homes, to cancel plans he brokered to buy the Johns-Manville plant and create 1,560 jobs. The decision was prompted by the late-1970s gas crisis. The plant, along Highway 97 near Chiloquin, was originally built as a lumber mill and is now used by Jeld-Wen. Disappointments are inevitable, and Stilwell has more reasons to celebrate. He was involved in creating several developments, including the original Shasta Plaza Shopping Center (later renamed the Klamath Mall and currently undergoing reconstruction), numerous downtown buildings and stores, many South Sixth Street businesses as well as projects along Washburn Way and at the Kingsley Industrial Park by Kingsley Field. "You build from within," he believes of developing a strong economy. "Always remember the best and most lasting growth comes from within." He says his sense of business traces its roots to his upbringing in a poor, blue-collar family. His father was a mechanic who routinely moved the family from state to state - Stilwell says he attended eight to 10 schools by the time he was in the fourth grade - until his mother decided, "This is where we lay down roots." "I've been successful, but I've been in business all my life," Stilwell says. He recalls with obvious pride how, as an 11-year-old, he patrolled downtown streets selling newspapers, a job that earned him money and introduced him to community "movers and shakers." He attended Riverside Elementary School and graduated from Klamath Union High in 1938. Jobs were scarce because of the Depression, so he worked at Lamm Lumber for 55 cents an hour before taking a job in Bly driving a lumber truck that paid 75 cents an hour. Stilwell later left for Armstrong College in Berkeley, Calif., "But I didn't finish, because Uncle Sam said he needed me." He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945 in Navy intelligence - "I fought the battle of Long Beach, San Pedro and Hollywood." After his discharge and return to Klamath Falls, he worked in accounting with Southwell & Stilwell until launching his real estate business, James F. Stilwell & Co., as a broker and private investor in 1957. His 519 Main St. office was his working home until his retirement in 2000. Through a series of friendships and hard-earned working relationships, he was a leader among Klamath County businessmen, but he also hobnobbed with some of the nation's industrial leaders. "I may have been a small town boy, but I represented the giants." He believes his life changed in 1947, when he was named Young Man of the Year - "That kind of did something for me." He earlier married Winifred Southwell, his high school sweetheart. They had two children - Mike, and Teri Schmidt. A year after Winifred's death in 1984, he married Katherine, a long-time family friend, in Maui, Hawaii. For many years, Stilwell's other "family" included a series of golden retrievers. Three became national champions. With the dogs or as a judge at competitions, Stilwell spent portions of 20 years traveling the nation. "They say every man should be lucky enough to have a good wife and a good dog," he says with a ticklish smile. "I've been lucky enough to have two excellent wives and many good dogs." He's also had many good times with organizations such as the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Shasta Cascade Retriever Club, Klamath Sportsmens Association, Klamath Board of Realtors, Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, Oregon Pilots Association, Klamath Air Search & Rescue Unit, Klamath Board of Realtors, YMCA, Rotary Club, Ducks Unlimited and Elks Lodge. His public visibility, which he's intentionally kept fairly low, lessened even more with retirement and age. But Stilwell remains attuned to the community he's called home for more than 75 years. "I can live wherever I want to live, but I'm darn sure not going to leave," Stilwell insists. "The community's been good to me and I like to think I've been good for it." "Michael James Stilwell was born in Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 21, 1942, to James F. and Winifred "Wini" Southwell Stilwell. Mike attended Altamont, Peterson and Summers Lane grade schools, and graduated from Klamath Union High School in 1960. He was band president, played Babe Ruth and American Legion baseball and attended Southern Oregon University. He enlisted in the Navy in January 1961, serving on the USS Pictor and USS Zelima in the Japan-China Seas area, and was honorably discharged in March 1964. Mike started worked for Modoc Lumber Co. as a mill hand, acquiring experience in all phases of production, and was promoted to timekeeper. He served on the board of directors of Modoc Credit Union and advanced to assistant sales manager to round out his lumber experience. He was an accomplished, well-trained pilot, holding private, commercial, instrument and multi-engine ratings and considered flying for United Airlines. In January 1973, Mike was hired by Georgia Pacific Corp. and moved to Portland, serving as account manager for the mid-Atlantic and Southern divisions. In May 1974, he was transferred and became lumber sales manager of the Tucson, Ariz., operation, then to the Reno in the same capacity. When Georgia Pacific closed Reno operation, he returned to Klamath Falls to take over the family business. He died in his childhood home Oct. 5, 2013, just short of his 71st birthday, lovingly cared for by his step-mother, Katherine; father; sister, Teri and daughters, Kim and Wendy. Survivors include his aunts, Margery Hammers of Tucson; and Florence Ramsey; husband, Jim; uncle, Mark E. Stilwell and wife, Betty both of Klamath Falls; nephews, Michael J. and Ryan Schmidt of Silverton, Ore.; great-nieces, Sage and Margaret and Ann Schmidt and great-nephew, Gavin of Silverton; cousins, Donald of Ft. Myers, Fla.; Lee, Fred and John Stilwell of Klamath Falls; and Karen Galyen of Tucson; special friends Lil and Ted Yarosh, Patty and Bob Tucker, Nancy and Hugh Thompson and Sarah Teague, his classmates and neighbors. Our thanks to Klamath Hospice. Mike was a quiet, reserved man. He loved his family, friends and country. His memorial was held with his immediate family at the family Spring Creek summer home. He rests with his mother, who passed away Oct. 4, 1984." William Winton Southwell, born November 1888, died April 4, 1973 in Klamath County. "Mr. Southwell was born March 6, 1865 at Jacksonville, Illinois, and when a small boy came to Maryville. He was the son of William Southwell, also a contractor. At the age of twenty-one he married Anna Heskette and they moved to Hebron, Neb., where he followed his trade and in 1895 the family moved to Maitland. Mr. Southwell has built many houses in both Holt and Nodaway counties. Besides his widow he is survived by two sons, William Winton and Bryan Southwell of Klamath Falls Ore., one daughter, Rebecca Faye Southwell of Omaha, Nebraska, and three brothers and one sister living in California and Colorado." CHARLES In 1900 Denver, Charles Southwell is a carpenter, born October 1866 in Illinois, married nine years to Madge Feb 1868 Missouri, Don was born in Denver in 1894. Charles and Madge L. are in Los Angeles California in 1910, with Donald 16 and Doris 9. Charles Dedrick Southwell, born Sept 20, 1866, died in Los Angeles January 7, 1955. Madge, born Feb 10, 1867 in Illinois, died in Los Angeles October 2, 1958. Donald H. Southwell, born February 10, 1894 in Colorado, mother Hensley, died in Los Angeles County June 24, 1981. In 1917 the University of Colorado had "Fred B. Southwell, Assistant in Chemistry." F.B. Southwell married Edna MacKibben on December 19, 1925, recorded in Arapahoe County. Fred B. Southwell married Ruth Pigott on January 26, 1927, recorded in Denver. 1958 " William Southwell, Klamath Falls, was awarded a degree at Willamette University's 116th commencement exercises June 8. Southwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Southwell, 1147 Pacific Terrace, received a bachelor of law degree. He graduated from Klamath Union High School, and majored in accounting at the University of Oregon before going to Willamette. He has already passed his Certified Public Accountant examination, and will take the State Bar examination in mid-July. Southwell served two years in the Army with the Finance Corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant." Fred 1895-1990 is buried in Oregon City, Oregon # 36167272. Thaks to the family for the nice obituary.

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