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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1944
Page
4
Local notes tell of Clifton residents and families with relatives in military service. Mentions of Melina and Mire, Mir a, and Raymond Afprecht bound for Spokane and Geiger Washington. Reports on crop conditions heighten wartime hardship and a German retreat. Also notes on reunions and visits among Clifton natives now scattered in California and Texas.
The report notes the birth of a second daughter to Mr and Mrs Walter Ludwig living off Meridian, Meridian hospital records show Sept 20, with Mrs F W Wallace arranging to send the Record to their son Burton T Wallace in Uncle Sam's Navy at Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Cal.
Obituary recounts life of Alvin Lewis Amundson of Clifton, a WWII soldier, service from 1943 to 1944, overseas campaigns in North Africa and France, presumed killed in action August 19, 1944, at Camp Breckenridge and Meade later, survived by wife Ina Amundson and multiple relatives including parents Jacob and a stepmother, with death and family details recorded in local notices.
A long life ends for Mrs Fort who died after rheumatism and a bout of illness. Survived by daughter Mrs Men A McAdams Amarillo and three sons Seymour Saunders Leakey Cleveland Saunders Crawfish Gap and Mrs H Saunders Abilene along with nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. A lifetime Methodist active in church service, she moved between Texas towns with family before settling in Abilene. Her husband Fort died in 1926 and she had lived in recent months in bed due to painful ailments.
Fragmented obituary item records the funeral arrangements for Dr SL Wr fathers in Teh of their ih Cawen, noting Dr Hamilton died from a stroke and that Mg died suddenly a day or two prior. The garbled text mentions Comanche test Saturday and Valley Mil, with references to Sanyo Goldes and Gap.
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