DECK, Oscar Thomasd

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ January 18, 1963 Funeral Monday For Oscar Deck Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock Monday morning in the Catholic Church in Congress for Oscar T. Deck, a lifelong resident of Arizona and prominent in the civic and business life of Congress for more than 30 years. He passed away January 11 in Community Hospital here following his admittance the 'same day. Mr Deck had been in ill health since last March. Born in Marfa, Texas, December 29, 1905, he was brought to Arizona when still a small child and lived in Wickenburg until moving to Congress in 1931. He at one time owned and operated the Congress Hotel and adjoining service station and in 1940 built the Texaco station which he was operating at the time of his death. In recent years he developed a subdivision near Congress and drilled two wells to supply it with water. Father Messier of the Catholic Church in Yarnell conducted the services Monday and burial was in the Congress Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Belle and son Oscar T. Deck, Jr.; five sisters, Mrs J. J. Baker, Sacramento, Calif., Mrs Lawn Briggs, Denver, Colo., Mrs Phil Garcia, North Ridge, Calif.; Mrs Ed Hershkowitz, Butte City, Calif., and Mrs Sam Doom, Congress. Also two brothers, Jim Deck of Congress and George Deck of Los Angeles.