John Birt Found Dead Sunday Mile From Home
John Birt, 76 years of age, a farmer in the Oklahoma Panhandle died within a miile of his home between Saturday evening and Sunday morning afater getting stuck on a muddy highway, enroute home from his son Charles place in Kansas.
He was found just after noon on Sunday by Novy Kauffman, a farmer who was walking to his place, which was about a mile north of where he found Mr. Birt slumped over the steering wheel of his car. It is supposed over exertion caused his death.
Charles Birt, who lives just north of the state line in Kansas, several miles north of where his father had resided since 1916, was not notified of the death of his father until about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Guymon, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the family plot at Guymon. John had been in greatly improved health the past few months. About a year ago or so he was very poorly and he figured he might go any time.
Mrs. Birt died in May 1947.
John is survived by his four sons, Charles. Rte 4, Guymon; Danny of Guymon; Alvin [Elvin], Inglewood, Calif; and Merlyn of Hawthorne, Calif, other relatives and friends.
John was a typical panhandle wheat farmer, who believed in the country in which he lived and was a neighborly type of individual. After the four sons left the home, John and his wife took children into their home to rear and give them care, as their own. Also, John was one of the early airplane enthusiasts of the panhandle and the southwest. He built his own hangar many years ago and built one of the first planes to be flown in the panhandle.
John lived within a few steps of the notorious Wild Horse Lake and saw the land around it be turned from grass land to rich wheat land under cultivation. He experienced the change over from cow chips as fuel to see the great Hugoton gas field develop around him. John lived every day.
John Birt, 76 years of age, a farmer in the Oklahoma Panhandle died within a miile of his home between Saturday evening and Sunday morning afater getting stuck on a muddy highway, enroute home from his son Charles place in Kansas.
He was found just after noon on Sunday by Novy Kauffman, a farmer who was walking to his place, which was about a mile north of where he found Mr. Birt slumped over the steering wheel of his car. It is supposed over exertion caused his death.
Charles Birt, who lives just north of the state line in Kansas, several miles north of where his father had resided since 1916, was not notified of the death of his father until about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Guymon, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the family plot at Guymon. John had been in greatly improved health the past few months. About a year ago or so he was very poorly and he figured he might go any time.
Mrs. Birt died in May 1947.
John is survived by his four sons, Charles. Rte 4, Guymon; Danny of Guymon; Alvin [Elvin], Inglewood, Calif; and Merlyn of Hawthorne, Calif, other relatives and friends.
John was a typical panhandle wheat farmer, who believed in the country in which he lived and was a neighborly type of individual. After the four sons left the home, John and his wife took children into their home to rear and give them care, as their own. Also, John was one of the early airplane enthusiasts of the panhandle and the southwest. He built his own hangar many years ago and built one of the first planes to be flown in the panhandle.
John lived within a few steps of the notorious Wild Horse Lake and saw the land around it be turned from grass land to rich wheat land under cultivation. He experienced the change over from cow chips as fuel to see the great Hugoton gas field develop around him. John lived every day.
John Birt Found Dead Sunday Mile From Home
John Birt, 76 years of age, a farmer in the Oklahoma Panhandle died within a miile of his home between Saturday evening and Sunday morning afater getting stuck on a muddy highway, enroute home from his son Charles place in Kansas.
He was found just after noon on Sunday by Novy Kauffman, a farmer who was walking to his place, which was about a mile north of where he found Mr. Birt slumped over the steering wheel of his car. It is supposed over exertion caused his death.
Charles Birt, who lives just north of the state line in Kansas, several miles north of where his father had resided since 1916, was not notified of the death of his father until about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Guymon, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the family plot at Guymon. John had been in greatly improved health the past few months. About a year ago or so he was very poorly and he figured he might go any time.
Mrs. Birt died in May 1947.
John is survived by his four sons, Charles. Rte 4, Guymon; Danny of Guymon; Alvin [Elvin], Inglewood, Calif; and Merlyn of Hawthorne, Calif, other relatives and friends.
John was a typical panhandle wheat farmer, who believed in the country in which he lived and was a neighborly type of individual. After the four sons left the home, John and his wife took children into their home to rear and give them care, as their own. Also, John was one of the early airplane enthusiasts of the panhandle and the southwest. He built his own hangar many years ago and built one of the first planes to be flown in the panhandle.
John lived within a few steps of the notorious Wild Horse Lake and saw the land around it be turned from grass land to rich wheat land under cultivation. He experienced the change over from cow chips as fuel to see the great Hugoton gas field develop around him. John lived every day.
John Birt, 76 years of age, a farmer in the Oklahoma Panhandle died within a miile of his home between Saturday evening and Sunday morning afater getting stuck on a muddy highway, enroute home from his son Charles place in Kansas.
He was found just after noon on Sunday by Novy Kauffman, a farmer who was walking to his place, which was about a mile north of where he found Mr. Birt slumped over the steering wheel of his car. It is supposed over exertion caused his death.
Charles Birt, who lives just north of the state line in Kansas, several miles north of where his father had resided since 1916, was not notified of the death of his father until about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Guymon, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the family plot at Guymon. John had been in greatly improved health the past few months. About a year ago or so he was very poorly and he figured he might go any time.
Mrs. Birt died in May 1947.
John is survived by his four sons, Charles. Rte 4, Guymon; Danny of Guymon; Alvin [Elvin], Inglewood, Calif; and Merlyn of Hawthorne, Calif, other relatives and friends.
John was a typical panhandle wheat farmer, who believed in the country in which he lived and was a neighborly type of individual. After the four sons left the home, John and his wife took children into their home to rear and give them care, as their own. Also, John was one of the early airplane enthusiasts of the panhandle and the southwest. He built his own hangar many years ago and built one of the first planes to be flown in the panhandle.
John lived within a few steps of the notorious Wild Horse Lake and saw the land around it be turned from grass land to rich wheat land under cultivation. He experienced the change over from cow chips as fuel to see the great Hugoton gas field develop around him. John lived every day.
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