Robert H. Vose ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

LEWISTON NEWSIE HIT BY AUTO, LEG BROKEN

Robert Vose, 15 year old Republican-Herald carrier boy at Lewiston, had two bones in his right leg broken Sunday afternoon when he was struck by a passing automobile. He was about to leap to the running board of a car driven by Eal Blanchard, a Lewiston youth. The boys were returning from a visit to the swimming hole near the arches in Stockton valley.

The Blanchard car was standing at the side of the road and the boys were about to return to Lewiston. Vose was crossing the road, which was wet and slippery, and intended to reach the waiting car before the approaching machine, driven by Gary Milde, a teller in the First State Bank at Lewiston, accompanied by Otto Hicks, cashier of the bank and owner of the machine, passed Vose slipped, however, just as he was about to jump to the running board of the car, and the Hicks machine struck him. He was picked up and taken to Lewiston immediately. Attending physicians stated today that the lad would be unable to be about for a period of about six weeks.

(Source: Winona Republican-Herald, July 25, 1921, Page 4)
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Once left wife for several years during Great Depression to work on farms in South Dakota. Lived in Elroy, Wisconsin, Onalaska, Wisconsin, Winona, Minnesota, and then moved to Daggett, California where he worked as a stationmaster for railroad. Once threw the wrong switch in the RR depot, causing train accident (due to drunkenness).

"Bob Vose had a very stern personality... seldom smiled. My aunt Marie always seemed uneasy around him. Once when I was young and visiting Bob and Marie, we were washing dishes when Marie looked out the window and said, "Oh my God, here comes Bob (home from work)... we'd better get busy and get this house cleaned up."

"On another occasion when dad (Robert Westphal) and I were visiting Bob and Marie in Dagget, California, I asked Bob (Vose) to borrow some books, as he was an avid reader. He told me, "Well, you can borrow a few, but I'd better well get them back!" Even though I was older at the time, I still felt very uneasy around him. He had a bad temper. I think he may have also been abusive to Marie."

Per Martha Drugan Westphal (Apr 2003)
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Winona, MN on 4 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 3A, District 30, Dwelling 52, Household 57, Roll 1135, Ward 1
Winona, Winona County, Minnesota
623 Harriet Street; home rented $15
Robert H. Vose..Head..24..WI..Machinist, Iron Bender Factory
(Living with wife and daughter.)
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• He was buried on 28 December 1968 in the Mountain View Memorial Park in Barstow, CA.

Plot: 14 15 03

Find A Grave Memorial #50670266
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• His obituary was published in the Winona Daily News on 29 December 1968 in Winona, MN.

Robert H. Vose, 62, Daggett, Calif., a former Winona resident, died on the morning of Christmas day in a hospital in Barstow, Calif. He had been ill for some time.

He had been a telegrapher for the Santa Fe Railroad. His parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Vose. He married Marie Hanson of Trempealeau, Wis., and moved to California in 1939.

Survivors are: His wife; two daughters; two sons; three brothers, including Roy F., Winona, and three sisters. Funeral and burial services were held Friday in Barstow.

(Source: Winona Daily News, Winona, MN, 29 Dec 1968)
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Robert married Marie Lydia Hanson, daughter of Lars Syversen Hanson and Helena Catherine Kramer, on 17 December 1927 in Winona, MN.^{1 2} (Marie Lydia Hanson was born on 1 November 1905 in Trempealeau, WI,^{1 2 4 5 6 7} died on 21 February 2000 in Lancaster, CA ^{1 7} and was buried after 21 February 2000 in Mountain View Memorial Park, Barstow, San Bernardino, California, United States ^{1 7}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Winona, MN on 4 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 3A, District 30, Dwelling 52, Household 57, Roll 1135, Ward 1
Winona, Winona County, Minnesota
623 Harriet Street; home rented $15
Robert H. Vose..Head..24..WI..Machinist, Iron Bender Factory
Marie L. Vose..Wife..24..WI
Patricia J. Vose..Dau..1y 9m..MN
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