Curtis Barnett Wells (1875-1934)

WELLS, COOPER, ALLEN, PIERCY, MILLS, FROST

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal November 12, 1934 (page 1)

C. B. WELLS DEAD; FUNERAL THURSDAY

LONG TIME RESIDENT OF MAXWELL PASSED AWAY SUNDAY IN DES MOINES

Special to the Journal.
Maxwell, Nov. 12--Curtis B. Wells, 59, for over half a century a resident of Maxwell, died at a hospital in Des Moines Sunday from pneumonia, after a brief illness. He was taken ill on Thursday and went to the hospital Saturday, where he passed away a few hours later.

Mr. Wells had been a sufferer from diabetes and other complications for some time which made his resistance weak when attacked by pneumonia.

Funeral services will be held at the home in Maxwell Thursday afternoon at 2:00 and interment will be in the family lot in the Maxwell cemetery.

He was married to Miss Rae Cooper of Maxwell in 1895 and leaves besides his wife, six daughters and five sons. One daughter Eleanor is deceased.

The children who survive are Melvin Wells of Nevada; Gladys, wife of Floyd Allen of Hampton; Helen, wife of Dr. Piercy of Dallas; Gerald Wells of Springfield, O.; Max Wells of Charles City; Letha, wife of Wells Gaynor of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Stephanna Mills of Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Ruth Frost of Dallas and Paul Wells, Everett Wells and Jean Wells at home.

The deceased was a native of King City, Mo., where he was born in September 1875, but came to Maxwell with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wells, when a boy. For the past many years he had been engaged in the grain trade in Maxwell, at the same time conducting a successful business as an auctioneer.

He was a man well and favorably known in the community in which he had spent nearly all of his life and will be greatly missed in the community.