George Washington Atkinson (1866-1928)

ATKINSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/30/2013 at 22:59:26

From unknown newspaper March 28, 1927

GEO. W. ATKINSON DIED EARLY TODAY, FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

George W. Atkinson, 60, retired merchant of Nevada, died at his home corner of Fifth and Avenue H at an early hour today from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy suffered late Sunday afternoon. Mr. Atkinson had enjoyed a motor car ride during the afternoon and had been out in the yard in the evening when he was attacked by the stroke. He was helped into the house, a doctor summoned and everything possible done to relieve him, but he never regained consciousness. The funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Central Presbyterian Church in charge of his pastor, Rev. J. George Walz. Interment will be in the Nevada Cemetery. Mr. Atkinson, a resident of Nevada for over a third of a century, was well and most favorably known and for the greater part of this residence here had been engaged in the mercantile business. He leaves besides his wife, two children. The son, Wyatt Atkinson with his wife, lives at home, while the daughter, Miss Ila, is at Indianola, where she is a student at Simpson College.