WOLFE, Thomas Jefferson

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ, Friday, Aug 20, 1948 TOM WOLFE DIES VETERAN IN MINING SUMMONED AT HOSPITAL; FUNERAL HELD THURSDAY Final rites were to be held Thursday evening at 5 o'clock for Thomas Wolfe, age 71, mining man who had lived in the Wickenburg-Phx area for the past 18 years and whose death occurred at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at Community Hospital here. Mr Wolfe was admited to the hospital August 8. He had been in failing health for several years. MISSOURI BORN A native of Webb City, Mo., where he was born February 18, 1877, Mr Wolfe entered the mining business at an early age, in the lead mines of southwest Missouri. Later he moved to the Coast where he was in the oil drilling business. Mr and Mrs Wolfe came back to Wickenburg the day he was admitted to the hopital. Shocked by her husband's death, Mrs Wolfe was admitted to the hopital Tuesday noon but it was expected she would be able to leave there Thursday. CAUGHT IN FLOOD Back in August of 1934, when the Hassayampa river went on a rampage which washed out many residents along its banks, Mr and Mrs Wolfe, who were living about 5 miles down the river, lost everthing when the flood waters came. Mr and Mrs Newt Aldous made a small house on their property available to the stricken people and the two couples became well acquainted. The widow and a son, Paul, survive. The latter, who could not be located, is believed to live in the vicinity of Phx. The funeral was held at the Wickenburg Chapel with burial in the Wickenburg Cemetery.