GUERRERO, Jose (Little Joe)

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona - November 26, 1954 BURNS ARE FATAL TO JOSE GUERRERO Funeral arrangements were pending Thursday for Jose Guerrero, age 65, a resident of Wickenburg for more than 28 years, who died at Community Hospital Tuesday night from burns received the night before when he fell on the heating stove at his trailer home behind Town Hall. Familiarly known to many as "Little Joe," Mr. Guerrero was noted for the quick smile with which he greeted friend and stranger alike, as well as for his reticence to talk about himself. From friends, we learn that he came to Wickenburg 28 years ago last New Year's eve from Williams, Ariz., with a group of Santa Fe right-of-way workers transferred here. His service with the railroad totaled 29 years. He is said to have a son Lorenzo, last reported living Calexico, Calif., and a sister. Heard By Neighbor "Little Joe” had been a patient in the Community Hospital and was discharged Monday noon. Around 9 o’clock that night a neighbor, E. C. Stewart, living at the Wickenburg Motel, heard screams and moans coming from Joe's home saw smoke and called Police Officer W. P. Clawson from the jail nearby. The two men had to break down the door to enter where they found Joe lying across the small gas heater, his clothing afire. The two men smothered the flames with a blanket and called the ambulance which took him to the hospital.