This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeFreece, Kesterson, Wade Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4292 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 27, 1947. "FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN COLORADO".-- Pete De Freece, 72, of Monta Vista, Colo., passed away Monday, Feb. 17, at his home there. Funeral services were held Thursday, Feb. 20, with burial at Monte Vista. The Masonic order had charge of services at the grave. Mr. DeFreece was the son of the late Monas (sic) and Sophia DeFreece of Fremont county and was born near Sidney in 1875. He grew to manhood in this vicinity and was married to Miss Maggie Kesterson. To this union two children were born, a daughter and a son, who both live at Monte Vista. The family left Fremont county a number of years ago. In 1928 Mr. De Freece returned to Sidney for a visit. His only brother, G. T. DeFreece, of Sidney, visited them at their home in 1936 and 1938. He is survived by his wife and two children, a brother, G. T., of Sidney, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Wade, of Oklahoma, the only two survivors of a family of ten. N.B.: The father's name was Moses DeFreece, not Monas.-W.F.