Burt Wight (1924)
ROBBINS, WIGHT
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/1/2011 at 14:34:49
Billings Gazette
Billings, Montana
Sunday, July 20, 1924Big Horn Farmer Dies from Stomach Cancer
Bert Wight, 47 years old, a farmer of Big Horn in Big Horn county, died at a local hospital Saturday following a lingering illness from cancer of the stomach.
Mr. Wight had lived several years in the vicinity of Rockvale previous to his removal to Big Horn.
He is survived by a widow, Grace, and 10 children and also by eleven brothers and sisters, most of them live in the vicinity of Billings.
The body was taken to Fromberg where Mr. Wight had formerly lived in that vicinity. Burial in Rockvale cemetery.
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 31, 1924
Page 1, Column 2Bert Wight Dies in Montana
Relatives here received word last week of the death of Bert Wight of Big Horn, Mont., within a few hours after an operation for a stomach trouble of several years' standing.
His wife, who was Grace Robbins before her marriage; also nine children. Mrs. Wight and her younger children are expected here before the opening of school and will make their home for the winter at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Robbins.
________________________Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, name on gravestone is "Burt".
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