William Stoval High
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 A - May 31, 1944
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - May 31, 1940
Stoval High Killed in Auto Accident
WAS TAKING FAMILY TO COMMENCEMENT AT GYPSUM WHEN CAR OVERTURNED ON HIGHWAY—WITH HIS SKULL CRUSHED DEATH WAS INSTANT .
Another sad tragedy occurred on the highway last Thursday evening when Stoval High was killed and five others were injured when the car which Stoval was driving turned over on the state highway , near the old cement bridge , six miles east of Eagle . Stoval , his mother , Mrs . Robt . H . High , his brothers , Robert High , jr ., Herbert High , Bennie High , and sister , Blanche High , were goi ng from their ranch home on Squaw creek to Gypsum to attend the commencement exercises of Eagle County High School , where
Herbert was to graduate that evening . At the point , where the accident occurred a deer jumped onto the highway in front of the ear and Stoval attempted to go around it , ran off the shoulder of the road and the car turned over as he pulled it back onto the pavement . He was thrown from the car as it turned over , striking on his head , and his skull so badly crushed that he died instantly . Miraculously , none of the others in the car were badly injured . Mrs . High received the most serious injuries , her jaw bein g fractured . affair
It was most sad , the happy a family going to the secene of Herberts graduation . when suddenly death and injury overtook the party . Stoval was a fine young man , working steadily , and helping with the support of a large family . William Stoval High was born March 31 , 1918 , in Lolita , Tex ., coming to Colorado with- bis parents when three years of age , the family settling on Squaw creek near Edwards , Colo . He attended the grade schools at Edwards , and was a student in Eagle high school for two years . He served an enlistment of six months in the CCCC camp at Glenwood Springs . He then worked for a few months in the molybdeum mine at Climax . . For about three vears he has
been employed by the Empire Zinc company at Gilman , where he was employed at the time of his death . He is survived by his parents , Mr . and Mrs . Robert H . High of Edwards ; six brothers , Thomas , Bobbie , Herbert , Bennie , Harold and Michael of the home ; four sisters , Mrs . Walter Quinlan of Eagle ; Blanche , Charlotte , and Glend a , Edwards ; his grandparents , Rev . and Mrs . T . A . J . Beasley , of New Albany , Miss ; and D . B . High , Ecru , Miss .: and a number of uncles and
aunts , other relatives , and a host of friends . Impressive funeral services were held in the Edwards Community Hall Sunday , attended by a large concourse of neighbors , friends and relatives , Rev . Warren S . Bainbridge of Glenwood Springs preaching the funeral discourse . From there the funeral cortege proceeded to Gypsum where burial , in charge of Mortician Paul Andre , was made in Cedar Hill cemeterv .
