Gurney Trucks

TRUCKS, MCMILLEN, GUSTOFF, ANDERSON, ALBORN

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Date: 8/14/2023 at 09:22:04

The Bayard News, March 10, 1977

Following a long illness, Gurney Trucks died March 3 at the Veteran Hospital in Knoxville. He was 83 yeas old and had lived in Bayard for many years.
Final rites were held from the Bayard United Methodist Church Sunday with burial at the Oak Hill Cemetery at Coon Rapids.
The Pastor of the church, Rev A Keith Hauser, was the officiating minister, Organist was Miss Lula Garnes and Vocalists were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cretsinger
Honorary pall bearers were Winfred Barrett, George Keeley, Ben Hart, Estus Crestsinger, Alfred Young, Lee Miller, Burt Pevestorf and Elmer Emery.
The casket was carried by Jim Murrane, Ferdinand Gustoff, Ronald Beyerink, Orville Pevestorf, Alfred Parker and Junior Skalla.
Gurney Trucks, son of Frank and Rhoda (Knight) Trucks, was born in Carroll County on November 15, 1893. He attended rural schools in Carroll county and served in the U.S. Navy during World War 1. After being discharged from the Navy he homesteaded a government land claim near Sumatra, Montana, and later returned to Iowa to farm.
On March 4, 1925, he was married to Hazel Rhodes. They farmed in the Coon Rapids vicinity until he retired and they moved to Bayard in 1960. He passed away in the Veterans hospital in Knoxville at he age of 83 years, 3 months and 16 days after a hospital stay of about three months.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one grandson, one granddaughter, one brother and one sister. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and their children. Beth Ellen (Mrs. Jack) McMullen of Salt Lake, Utah; Shirley (Mrs. LaVerne) Gustoff of Boone; Marilyn (Mrs. Robert) Anderson, Pocatello, Idaho; Mary Jane (Mrs. Harold) Alborn, Bedford, and Richard Trucks of Lenox. There are also 11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He is survived by one brother, Troy of Coon Rapids, and two sisters, Mrs. Opal Teter of Guthrie Center and Mrs. Fanny Lamberty of Coon Rapids, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends.
Gurney was a member of the United Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge. The American Legion and the W. W. I. Veterans.