Fred E. Edwards |
| Posted 2020-02-04 by Pat R |
| Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona) Wednesday, March 4, 1959, p. 18 Rites Are Tomorrow For Fred E. Edwards Services for Fred E. Edwards, 79, former member of the Arizona Industrial Commission, will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Memory Chapel, A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary. The Rev. Waldo S. Richards will officiate. Cremation will follow. Born in Oakland, Calif., Mr. Edwards came to Prescott in 1902. From 1904 to 1912 he was justice of the peace at Poland, in Yavapai County. In 1915 he went to Yuma County, where he operated a cattle ranch for nine years. He served five years as a customs collector in Nogales. For several years he lived in San Antonio, Tex., then returned to Nogales to become captain at large of the U.S. customs collectors. He was appointed a member of the industrial commission by the late Gov. Sidney P. Osborn and came to Phoenix in 1943. He served on the commission nine years before he retired. He lived at 211 W. Mulberry. He died there Monday following a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Iva C., and two sons, H. Fred and Leonard, all of Phoenix; two daughters, Mrs. John Tintek, of Warren, and Mrs. John Oxall, of Charleston, W. Va. Also surviving are a brother, L. P., of San Jose, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. John B. Bellamy of Berkeley, Calif., and Mrs. A. Don Hines, of San Jose, Calif.; and nine grandchildren. |
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