Ernie French
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - July 5, 1951
EARNIE FRENCH KILLED IN ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY
Ernie French, resident of Eagle for the past 30 years, was killed instantly when his car nosed into a ditch two miles west of Dotsero Friday night, and a companion, Jim McConville was critically injured. The tragedy occured when the two men were returning from Glenwood Springs, and tracks left on the pavement and position of the car indicated that either Mr- French had fallen asleep at the wheel or that the wide shoulder of the highway —covered with grass—appeared to him to be blacktop surfaced highway, and he followed this gradually until his car nosed into a deep ditch. 'Mr. French was crushed beneath the steering wheel and his companion was thrown against the windshield, which was knocked completely out, and suffered a fractured pelvis, broken right arm and numerous cuts and bruises. He was taken to a Olenwood hospital and from there to Denver. ?PUneral services will be held- July 6 at the Eagle Methodist ChurchRev. B- E. Bulkier will officiate.
and arrangjements are under direction of Bowman Funeral Chapel. Burial will he in the Eagle cemetery. Ernest French was bom in England June 9, 1889 and came to Eagle in 1921. Two years later, instrumental in bringing the Clyde Lloyds to this country from Chicago, he entered* the employ of the late C. F. Lloyd, when the latter bought ranch holdings four miles east of Eagle establishing the Red Mountain Ranch, as manager. Since that time he has made Eagle his home. When Mr Lloyd died, Mr. French remained on at the ranch., and when the late partner, Wayne T. Jones made the property famous on the Western Slope, in his change to the Diamond j Bar Cafe, Mr. French took over his work there. He was still a part of the ranch, at the t ,:-n of his death He was a veteran of World War I serving in the Canadian army and is survived by a brother, Walter and a niece, Doris, who with Mrs. Walter French came from their Chicago home for the funeral.
