SCOTT, Charlie

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ December 25, 1949 FINAL RITES HERE FOR TWO MEN LOST IN HIGHWAY CRASH Final rites and burial were held in Wickenburg Sunday and Monday of this week for two men whose lives were snuffed out in a highway catastrophe a few miles east of Morristown Thanksgiving evening. They were Charlie Scott of Wickenburg, 29-year-old- employee of the Central Arizona Light & Power Company and his distant relative Fred Ferguson, 61, of Wittmann. MR. SCOTT and Mr. Ferguson were in a southbound car which collided head-on with another car in which one man was killed instantly and several occupants injured and sent to Phx hospitals. Mr. Ferguson was instantly killed. Mr. Scott, suffering third and fourth degree burns over most of his body, passed away in Community Hospital here early Friday morning. MR. SCOTT, born November 20, 1920, came here from Blythe, Calif., in 1947 to go to work for the power company. He was senior groundman at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Donna, and two children, Harold 5, and Michel, 3½. His father, a resident of Blythe, also survives. The Scott funeral and burial were held Sunday afternoon. MILITARY services were conducted by the local American Legion for Mr. Ferguson, Monday afternoon with burial in the Wickenburg Cemetery. He was a veteran of World War I. He had ranched and raised cattle in the Wittman area for the past 15 years. Surviving are five sons, Howard of Wittmann; Stanley, with the U. S. Army in Japan; Leonard of Phx, John and Arthur. Also three daughters, Lenora and Martha of Wittmann and Mrs. Jean Adams of Phx.