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Richard Franklin Whitfield

Posted 2008-11-15 by Sharon
The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ
Oct. 27, 1961

Phoenix Rites For Richard Whitfield

Funeral services were held in Phoenix at 10 a.m. Thursday for Richard F. Whitfield, 91-year-old Wickenburg resident and father of E. J. Woodson.

Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Park Phoenix.

Mr. Whitfield, a rancher and farmer in Texas before he came to Arizona in 1912, died in a Phoenix Hospital Sunday.

He had been a blade operator for the State Highway Department and for the City of Phoenix for 25 years prior to his retirement in 1940.

He resided here with his son and daughter-in-law.

Surviving is another son, E. G. Woodson of Phoenix, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.


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