Joe T. Ocampo |
| Posted 2010-07-07 by Sharla |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ Ocampo, Wickenburg’s oldest living son, dies (Thursday, July 12, 1990) Joe Ocampo, considered the oldest living native of Wickenburg, passed away Monday, July 2 of natural causes in his home in Wickenburg. Mr. Ocampo, 92, was born April 15, 1898 in an era when Wickenburg still counted among its residents its founding father from which it took its name, Henry Wickenburg. Mr. Ocampo said he remembered visiting Henry Wickenburg as a young boy and recalled the shock to the community when died from a gunshot wound, possibly suicide. He was one of the first pupils at the Garcia School, the famed “Little Red Schoolhouse” that now houses a Community Bank branch near the Frontier Center shopping center. After he left Wickenburg in 1920 to seek work in California, he returned in 1950 and worked at a dude ranch for six years. He went to work for the school district as a custodian and bus driver before retiring in 1964. See Also: Find A Grave |
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