PLUMMER, Paul Ashton

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Monday, June 19, 1972, page 24, columns 1 & 2 Paul Plummer dies at 69; 1st auditor of tax agency Paul Ashton Plummer, who was the first field auditor for the Arizona Tax Commission, died Thursday in Good Samaritan Hospital. Born in Los Angeles, Mr. Plummer, 69, of 2010 W. Holly, was brought to Prescott as a year-old infant. He attended the University of Arizona and was graduated from Northern Arizona Normal School (now Northern Arizona University) in 1926. He was an elementary school teacher in Holbrook and Phoenix. Mr. Plummer, who also was employed for 26 years by the State Industrial Commission, later renamed the State Compensation fund, maintained his hobby of painting. More than 1,000 of his oil paintings featuring Arizona scenes have been sent to servicemen throughout the world. Private services will be today in the chapel of A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 W. Adams, with cremation to follow. Survivors include his wife Opal F.; one daughter, Mrs. Connie Shelton of Phoenix; one son, Paul E., of Tempe; one brother, Herman Brinkmeyer of Las Vegas, and two grandchildren.