MEDLER, Austin

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona July 6, 1967, page 9 Austin Medler Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Saturday morning at the Wickenburg Funeral Home for Austin Medler, 81-year-old retired rancher who died June 30 in Community Hospital here. The Rev. William D. White, Rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church will officiate and burial will be in the Greenwood Memorial Park in Phoenix. A native and lifelong resident of Arizona, Mr. Medler was born December 11, 1885 about one mile from the present day Roosevelt dam. He engaged in ranching most of his life except for a period when he was employed by the Bureau of Reclamation in the construction of Hoover dam. He was working for the Walking A. Ranch on the Santa Maria River when he retired and had made his home with the John Hamiltons in that area before entering the Echo Hills Home here four years ago. He was a life-time member of the Elks Lodge in Globe, Ariz. The only known survivor is a distant cousin, John Winders of Susanville, Calif.