David Guy "Guy" Welty (1874-1937)

WELTY, RANSOM, MCLEAN, SCHLEGEL, ALDERMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/30/2022 at 15:41:35

From Nevada Evening Journal January 18, 1937 (page 4)

Funeral Service for Guy Welty Tuesday Afternoon

The body of Guy Welty, 62, former Nevada man, who died at a hospital in Sacramento, Calif., Friday night, is expected to arrive here over the Northwestern at midnight tonight.

It will be accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Madge McLean of Salem, Oregon, his son Wayne of Lincoln, Neb., and B. M. Soper of Nevada, who met the funeral party at Omaha.

Funeral rites will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, at Memorial Lutheran church with Dr. J. O. Simon in charge. Mason- there will be a brief service at the following the funeral services and there will be a brief service at the grave in the family lot in the Colo cemetery, where his parents and where his late wife are buried.

David Guy Welty, 62, son of Christian and Susan Welty, was born near Oregon, Illinois in 1874 and passed away at Sacramento, California, January 15, 1937.

In March, 1881, he came to State Center with his parents and a year later to Story county where he lived with his parents on a farm near Johnson's Grove, northeast of Nevada. There he grew to manhood. He received his education in the public schools and the State Teacher's college at Cedar Falls, Iowa. He taught in the public schools at Colo and later was superintendent of the public schools at Collins.

He was united in marriage to May Ransom, December 24, 1900 and commenced housekeeping in Collins, later moving to Colo where he lived for several years and was engaged in the livestock business. In 1908 he moved to Nevada where he lived for many years. In January, 1929, his wife passed away. Soon after this bereavement he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, later to Salem, Oregon then he returned to Lincoln where he resided until about three years ago when he moved to Sacramento, California, where he passed away.

During the past twenty years he devoted his entire time to training and exhibiting Shetland, Welch and Hackney ponies. He exhibited his ponies from the Madison Square Garden in New York to the western coast, having made two trips across the Rocky mountain each year of the past nineteen years. His last show was in December, 1936 at Kansas City, Missouri. One of the pallbearers today is a young man who was his trainer for 18 years having made most of the trips across the mountains with him. In 1909 he made a trip to the Shetland Islands and imported many ponies.

At the time of his death, he owned the highest class group of ponies on the western coast. His reputation as an exhibitor of fine ponies was equal to any exhibitor of today.

At the time of his death, there was with him his daughter Madge McLean of Salem, Oregon, his brother, Harvey of Spirit Lake and his nephew, Paul B. Welty of this place, who did all they could for him in his last days.

He leaves his daughters, Mrs. Helen Schlegel of Chicago, Illinois; his daughter, Mrs. Madge McLean, a librarian, of Salem, Oregon; and his son, Wayne of Lincoln, Nebraska, and two grandchildren, besides his brothers, Harvey of Spirit Lake, his brothers Dan, Ira and Bert of Nevada and his sister, Mrs. Gertrude Alderman of Pittsburgh, Penn., with other relatives and friends.

He became a member of the local Masonic lodge in 1914 since said time he has continued his membership here.