W. R. Mahana
Marriages
Clyde Mahana
Marguerite Meier - November 14, 1935
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 8 - December 4, 1958
W. R. MAHANA
Funeral services were held at the ChaiHfl of Angels. Denver Nov. 21, for W. R- Mahana, Edwards rancher. Mr. Mahana was killed Nov. 18. near Georgetown m a truck collision. Born April 12, 1903 at Pearl. 111. Mr- Mahana came to Eagle County in 1939, when he bought the Vet Hockott ranch on West I.ake Creek. He was married on Nov. 1935 to Marguerite Meier in Denver. Mr- Mahana is survived by his wife and a son by a previous marriage, Clyde Mahana of Grand Junction.
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1 - November 20, 1958
Winter storm takes two lives
The first real winter storm of the season was responsible for two highway accidents which took the lives of two men—lra MacTavish of Glenwood Springs, and W. R. Mahana of Edwards. Mr. MacTavish was killed Sunday night on the Red Point on Highway 6-24, below Wolcott, when his car skidded out of control and smashed over the embankment. Mr. McTavlsh died enroute to the Glenwood hospital. W. R. Mahana, Lake Creek rancher, was killed near Georgetown Tuesday when two trucks collided on an icy curve. Mr. Mahana was driving a stake truck west on the Georgetown Loop in Clear Creek County when a truck driven by Eugene Wilson of Denver, skidded on ice and smashed headon into the Mahana truck. The impact knocked Mohana's truck 33 feet backward into highway guard rails. The patrol said it took rescue workers on hour to free Mahana's body. Services for Mr. Mahana will be
held Friday morning at the Chapel ot Angels on West Col(ax | Denver. Mr. MacTavish was the son of Mr and Mrs Hoy A. MacTavish of Glenwood and was employed at Climftx at the time of his death. He was born Oct- 4. 1921 In Glenwood and graduated from Glenwood High School In 1939. In 1953 he was married to Loriane Bleak at Cheyenne, Wya, from whom he was divorced two years ago. The couple have one child. Jodie Kim of Rnngely. Mr MacTtavlsh was holder of the Purple Heart, serving during WW II in the Aleutian IslandsItaly and was with the first troops to move into Camp Hale. For a lime he was associated with his brother, Leßoy in a furniture store in Montrose and owned Mac’s Furniture Store in Glenwood. A nephew of Wayne Burdge of Glenwood. Mr. MacTavish is olso survived by his parents, of Glenwood: a brother. Leßoy C. Orlando Fla.; two sisters; Mrs. Donald (Louise) Price- Alamosa and Mrs Herbert (Natalie) Gardner. Glenwood. Services were held at Burdge Garden Chapel in Glenwood Wednesday by Mr. Irvin Duncan. Jehovah’s Witness minister of Monte Vista-
