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Submitted: 9/12/12 • Approved: 9/13/12 • Last Updated: 9/17/12 • R755211-G755211-S3
William
1866 - 1933
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
September 28, 1933
William H. Rumley, in charge of the pumping station of the Bentonville municipal water works, died suddenly about 7 0'clock Monday evening of a heart attack. He was 67 years of age. Mr. Rumley complained of feeling ill that afternoon and his physician was called but he succumbed shortly afterwards.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Grimes, at three o'clock. Mr. Davidson, Christian Science reader, will conduct the service. Burial will be made in the City Cemetery.
Mr. Rumley was a native of Benton County and was born in the Garfield community in 1866. He was married in Seligman, Mo. in 1898 to Miss Elva Harrington. The family moved to Bentonville in 1911 where Mr. Rumley was employed at the Bentonville Ice and Cold Storage plant until three years ago. Since that time he has had charge of the city pumping station east of town.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Elva H. Rumley, he is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Payne Kilbourn, Mrs. Walter Grimes, Mrs. Elzie Mayhall and Miss Allene Rumley of Bentonville, and a son, Dewey Rumley of Alhambra, California.
Elva
1871 - 1961
Contributed on 9/12/12 by wfields55
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