This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hix, Stults, Beck Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7894 Message Board Post: Percy Hamilton Laid To Rest Sunday Testifying to the respect in which he was held, over 100 people attended when funeral services for Percy W. Hamilton, 65, were conducted last Sunday at the O'Donnell Funeral Home Chapel in Mojave. Mr. Hamilton was born in Colton, Calif., on February 12, 1889 and moved to Mojave in 1913 where except for a few years he spent in Taft, Calif., he had spent the past 35 years as an employee of the Southern Pacific R. R., in the position of yard clerk. It was in Taft where he met his wife. He was with the company since 1913. He is survived by his wife, Marie; a daughter, Mrs. Audrey Hix; a son, Buddy Hamilton, both of Tehachapi, and a sister, Mrs. Lillie B. Stults of Los Angeles and five grandchilren. Also a cousin, Edward Hamilton of Los Angeles and a niece, Thelma Beck of Bell. The funeral was conducted by the I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 457, pall bearers were Elden Smith, Everett Moore, Allen Carol, Herb Henson, George Hodges and Winfield Adduddell.: Percy was an Oddfellow of 44 years standing having joined the Colton Lodge No. 326, in February of 1910. He was intensely interested in mining ,and owned a claim near Mojave. His hobby was the collection of pencils of which he owned some 2,000. Last Thursday he became ill and was in a state of coma when he was taken to the local hospital, from which he never recovered, passing away the same evening. Interment took 'place in the Mojave Cemetery. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 25 March 1954