Dodge City Kansas Daily Globe Nov 1 1947

Long Time Resident Dies  

Mrs. Katie Stafford, 85, resident of Dodge City since 1885, died Saturday morning at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. W. T. Nicholson, with whom she had made her home in recent years. Mrs. Stafford and her husband, the late Addison E. Stafford, came to Dodge City a few months after their marriage December 10, 1884. Mr. Stafford was a Santa Fe section foreman for 56 years. He worked on railroad construction west of Dodge City in the early days. His father, Jonas Stafford of Topeka , was the first employee of the Santa Fe . The elder Stafford worked on building the road as far west as Spearville.  Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. R. W. Treder at 2 p.m. Monday in the Hulpieu-Swaim chapel. Burial will be in Maple Grove cemetery.  The Stafford home here for many years was on the site of the John Pressney warehouse facing Front Street.  Mrs. Stafford is survived by two sons, A.D. Stafford, with the personnel department of the Santa Fe in Chicago, and Earl Stafford of La Junta, a Santa Fe passenger conductor; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Glenn of Dodge City; the granddaughter, Mrs. Nicholson, two grandsons, William Stafford of Raton. N. M. and Charles Stafford of La Junta, and two great grandchildren.  Mrs. Stafford was born August 15, 1862 in Piqua , O. Her maiden name was Katie Bartel.

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