CHAMPIE, Elizabeth

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ January 2, 1959, p. 8 Services Friday For Mrs Champie Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Champie, pioneer resident of the Castle Hot Spring area, will be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning of this week in the Glendale Catholic Church. Then at 2 p.m. Friday Dr. Franklin Parker, Congregational minister of Prescott will conduct graveside rites in the Champie Cemetery at Castle Hot Springs. Mrs Champie was born November 1, 1865, in Springfield, Ill., and then lived in El Paso, Texas before settling in Castle Hot Springs 72 years ago. For the past 11 years she made her home with a daughter, Mrs Fred Cordes, in Glendale. It was there that she die3d Monday afternoon after a long illness. Her husband C. E. Champie, prominent Castle Hot Springs rancher, died in December of 1929. Surviving are two sons, Lawton and George, both of Castle Hot Springs; five daughters, Mrs Bessie Morgan, Mrs Clair Cordes and Mrs Gertrude Walker, all of Glendale; Mrs Ann Douglas of Wittmann and Mrs Emma Stivers of Tuston, Calif.; a brother, Matt Lee of Prescott; a sister, Mrs Molly Tippet of Abilene, Texas; 21 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.