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Walter McLaws

Posted 2023-07-16 by Pat R
Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Friday, July 4, 1958, p. 1

Walter McLaws Rites Thursday

Funeral services for Walter McLaws, former Wickenburg resident, were
held in Joseph City, Ariz., Thursday of this week. Mr. McLaws, a native
of the state, had a heart attack at his home in Mesa Sunday and died
Monday afternoon in the Mesa Osteopathic Hospital. He was 74 years old.

Mr. McLaws had once been a cowboy with the famous Hash Knife Ranch and
for many years was a well digger. He drilled many wells in the
Wickenburg area where he lived until 1950 when he moved to Mesa.

Survivors include two sons, William B. of Phoenix, and Walter, Jr., of
Caracas, Venezuela; a daughter, Hester McLaws of Seattle, Wash.; three
brothers, five sisters and six grandchildren.

His daughter-in-law, Mrs. William B. McLaws, is the former Martha Hale,
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Vertie Hale of Wickenburg. They have two
children, Virginia, 4, and Gary, 2.




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