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ing steel shavings on the streets.”E. T. WeekesDies SuddenlyFarm Estate Manager Stricken OnhsavtBusiness Trip.tE. T. Weekes, 65, well known farm estate manager, died suddenly this morning in a BeatricehospUal.He had been about his basin ess yesterday, going to Pawnee county. He was taken ill there, wasbrought back to Beatrice and entered the hospital at 4 p. m. He died at 6:30 this morning.“Tom” Weekes had resided in Beatrice for more than 30 years, locating here in the' management of the Bookwalter extensive land interests in 1917.He was born at Oconto, Nebr., June 17, 1883. He attended school at Scotia and commercial college at Lincoln. As a boy he worked for his father in the grain and cattle business. From 1910 to 1916 he was on the Omaha grain exchange. Since the closing of the Bookwalter estate, he had been in the farm management' and loan | business: with his son, under the firm name of E. T. Weekes Son.His civic activities included, his Masonic lodgb and Knight Templar affiliatons and 17 years as head of the Beatrice park board.Surviving are his wife, Evelyn, son, E. T. Weekes, jr., daughter, Mrs. Guy Chamberlain of Beatrice; three brothers, Charles W. and Edward B,, the latter his twin, both of Ord; Chester L., of New York City, and one sister, Mrs. Delores Kuns of San Francisco.Funeral services will be at two p. m. Thursday from the First Presbyterian church with the Rev. Ross McCown and the Rev. H. Willard Lampe officiating. Burial in Evergreen Home. The family requests no flowers. Bergmeyer fu-I neral directors in charge.
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Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska, US
Tue, Apr 27, 1948
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