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Rail AgencyEmploye Dies^Wallace Mattocks, 19, a ticket \ agent for the Atchison Unton ^ Depot Railway CoM died at c 9*20 o’clock yesterday morning L at the Atchison hospital, Heen- ; tered the hospital a week ago yesterday for treatment oF a ‘ kidney complication, Mr. Mat- -WALLACE MATTOCKStocks had been a pattest in the hospital three times In the past year,Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2:30 at the Sav/ln Dyer chapel with the Rev, C.F. 5tolz officiating. Burial will he at Mt# Vernon cemetery.Mr. Mattocks was one of Atchison’s best known and most popular citizens. He had been connected with railroading sinefc his boyhood when he was a messenger at’the Fifth street office for the Missouri Pacific.A son of Eli Mattocks, a brakeman for the Santa FeP and Mary Llddle Mattocks, Wallace Mattocks was born March 6,1833, a:^^Commercial, his life-long home. His parents came to Atchison from Lawrenceburg, Ind.As a young man, Wallace Mattocks learned telegraphy in the Missouri Pacific offices here* He worked for the railroad In Atchison, Stella,* Neb.» Omaha and other places. For a while he was a telegrapher for the Burlington at Omaha. For two years he was a telegrapher tn Kansas City for the Terminal . railroad at the Union depot, and was employed at a local auto agency several years.In 1944 he became a tde*1 i(Continued on Page 19)
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Atchison Daily Globe
Atchison, Kansas, US
Sun, Jul 29, 1962
Page 8
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