CLUBB, Maebelle

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ December 11, 1959, p. 1 Man & Wife Die Of Injuries in Auto Accident A double funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday by the Rev. Robert Jenkins, Baptist minister, in the Wickenburg Chapel for Mr & Mrs James H. Clubb of Arrowhead who were fatally injured in an automobile accident at about 6:15 o’clock Thursday evening of last week. Burial was in the Wickenburg Cemetery. The accident, which occurred about 200 feet east of Kelly’s Café on the east side of town, was the first since 1934 to result in fatalities within the town limits. According to Police Officer Karl Miller who conducted the investigation, the Clubb car, a 1941 Mercury 2-door sedan with Mr Clubb at the wheel and his wife as a passenger, apparently drove directly into the rear end of a large truck legally parked on the highway with the rear lights on. There was no skid marks or other evidence that Mr Clubb attempted to brake his car, Miller said, and the officer is under the impression that Mr Clubb may have fallen asleep at the wheel. Mrs Clubb was killed instantly. Her husband died at community Hospital at 9:20 o’clock that evening. Driver of the parked truck, a Western Gillette of Los Angles, was Elbert Lee Jacobs, 45, of Maywood, Calif. The force of the impact, said the Officer Miller, tore the rear axle of the truck loose from its supports. It was necessary to bring another Western Gillette truck here from Phoenix to transfer the cargo. Mr & Mrs Clubb experienced a tragedy one and one-half years ago when the cabin in which they resided at Arrowhead burned and the family, which includes two minor children, lost all their clothing and personal possessions. The Clubbs had lived at Arrowhead for the past four years. Prior to that the family lived in Bagdad for three years, in Cottonwood for nearly two years and in Happy Jack for nine years. Mr Clubb had been employed by the Mohave Mine & Milling Co. for nearly four years until laid off when that company ceased mining and buying manganese. He then worked for a while for the McDonald Construction Co. which is developing mining interests on the Castle Hot Springs Road where he batched during the week. He had been laid off there and he and his wife had gone to the mine to pick up his paycheck and personal belongings and were en route home when the accident occurred, says the daughter, Lavon, 16. The two minor children are Lavon, a sophomore in the Wickenburg High School, and Dale, 14, in the eighth grade of the Congress School. They left Sunday with their brother-in-law, John Bernard, for his home in Denham Springs, La., where they will reside. Other survivors are two married daughters, Mrs Bernard, who husband was here for the services; and Mrs James Ficco of New Orleans, La.; Mr Clubb’s mother, Mrs Earl Fiess of Kingman and Mrs Clubb’s father, a Mr Roberts whose address is unknown. Mr Club had seven brothers and sisters and Mrs Club also had seven brothers and sisters, all residing out of state. Mr Clubb wa born in Texas in 1910. His wife was born in 1915, also in Texas. Mr Clubb was a logger until the family moved to Bagdad seven years ago. Since then he had been a miner. Friends in Arrowhead, Congress and Wickenburg collected a sum of money to assist the two minor children.