Grant Curtis |
| Posted 2018-11-29 by Jo Brown |
| Arizona Range News. Willcox, Arizona March 29, 1940 Grant Curtis Dies In Auto Crash. Grant Curtis, age 21 years, and the son of Mr. Wallace Curtis of the Mule Shoe ranch, who was a brakeman for the Southern Pacific Co., died in a Tucson hospital Sunday night from injuries received in an automobile accident Sunday morning on the Tucson-Benson highway, thirty miles east of Tucson. Mr. Curtis was driving east on the highway when his car and a truck driven by W.D. Maddox, 27 of 709 Fourteenth St., Douglas, traveling west sideswiped. After the collision Curtis's car left the highway and turned over. Both Mr. Curtis and his brother Terrell Curtis, his only passenger were injured, but the latters injuries were not serious. Mr. Curtis was rushed by a passing motorist to a Tucson hospital, where it was found that he had a brain concussion and a punctured lung. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Tucson and interment was made in a Tucson cemetery under the direction of the Reilley Undertaking Company. Mr. Curtis was a former Willcox boy and had attended Willcox Schools and had many friends here. Among Willcox friends who attended the funeral were: Messers and Mesdames Earl Harper, Elvie Lane, Walter Hall, A.D. Browning, Mrs. Carrie Christian, Mrs. Jessica McMurray, Mrs. E.C. Maddox, Mrs. Alene Whelan, Misses Jean Maddox, Sally Brown, Jean Lane and Messers George Adcock, Billy Upchurch, Ben Pride, Tuffy Pride, O.C. Glenn, Paul Duncan, Wyatt Clayton and Delphie Allen. |
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