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.