W. W. STOCKTON DIES AT AGE 80

LEARN FORMER BLAIR GORCER DIED CHRISTMAS EVE IN CALIFORNIA

Mrs. M. R. Pound of this city has received word that her brother, Will W. Stockton, 80, of Los Angeles, died in California Christmas Eve. Further details were lacking in the telegram received by Mrs. Pound, and no word has yet been received regarding funeral and burial arrangements.

Mr. Stockton was a grocer in Blair many years ago, being located in the building now occupied by the Bertelsen Market. He later was a grocer in Omaha, California and Norfolk.

Surviving him are his wife; two sons, Guy and Vard Stockton, Sr., both of Los Angeles; a daughter, Mrs. Cora Lyden of Schuyler; the sister, Mrs. Pound of Blair; and a half-brother, George Kiely, of Toronto, Canada.

A complete obituary will be published in next week’s Pilot-Tribune.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society – Newspaper clipping on file in the Blair Public Library in Blair, Nebraska ~~~

Died on 12/24/1940

Buried in San Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, California (on Find a Grave website)

Find a Grave Memorial #141004993 – William Walter Stockton