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Stella Fay (Kerkes) Coughran

Posted 2023-11-03 by Pat R
Wickenburg Hassayampa Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, November 3, 1934, p. 1

Couple Weds

Miss Stella Fay Kerkes of Wickenburg and Walter W. Coughran of Skull
Valley were married in Phoenix November 1. Mrs. Coughran has been a
resident of Wickenburg for a number of years.
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Wickenburg Hassayampa Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, January 5, 1935, p. 1

Death Claims Stella Kerkes Coughran; Funeral To Be Saturday

Mrs. Walter Coughran (Stella Kerkes) 19 years old, bride of two months,
passed away Thursday at 3 a.m. in the Mercy Hospital at Prescott where
she was rushed from her home in Skull Valley to undergo treatment for a
diabetic condition.

Mrs. Coughran had lived in Wickenburg all her life until her marriage
November 1 when she moved to Arrowhead Ranch, at Skull Valley. In
addition to her husband, she is survived by her father, Mike Kerkes,
three sisters, Mary, Sarah and Annie and three brothers, Tommy, Mitchell
and Nickie all of Wickenburg.
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Wickenburg Hassayampa Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, January 12, 1935, p. 1

Last Rites For Mrs. Coughran

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon for Stella Kerkes Coughran
19 years old, wife of Walter Coughran of Skull Valley, at the Community
Presbyterian church. Mrs. Coughran died early Thursday morning in a
Prescott hospital. The body was brought here by the Ruffner Funeral Home
in Prescott.

Two hymns were sung by Mrs. R. S. Elmicke accompanied at the piano by
Mrs. F. J. Helm, after which a short talk was made by the Rev. Reese E.
Scull, pastor of the church. There were many beautiful floral offerings.
Interment was made in the Kerkes plot in the Wickenburg Cemetery, where
the young woman's mother is buried. Pallbearers were H. K. MacLennan, O.
L. Corbin, Jr., L. F. Coor, John Richards, Murray Wentworth and Dan
Cooke.
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Wickenburg Hassayampa Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, January 12, 1935, p. 1

Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy after
the death of our beloved Daughter, Wife and Sister.
Mike Kerkes
Walter Coughran
Tommy, Mary, Mitchell, Nickie, Saran and Annie Kerkes





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