Steve Reeves - Biography - Family

Biography - Family - Press

This photograph is from our collection that shows Steve at 3 years old on the back of Old Dan the horse he would ride for hours. Goldie Reeves on the right.

FORK TINE HURLEDBY THRESHER BELT PIERCES ABDOMEN

Steve's dad (Lester Reeves) is pictured at the far right side of this photo. Steve grandmother (Jessie Reeves) is located on the far right of the building.

Press Clipping from the local paper in Scoby 1927 Steve's dads death.

Lester Reeves Victim of Fatal Accident While Threshing West of Richland: Dies Tuesday Morning.

Lester Reeves, a fine young fellow 28 years of age who has resided in his community for several years, died at the Minot hospital Tuesday of this week, the result of a peculiar accident which occurred at the J. R. Williams farm, just west of the town site of Richland.

Lester was driving a bundle team for the Bundy-Rolandson threshing rig and had driven up near the separator with his load. While waiting for the wagon ahead of h to get unloaded he was talking with some children near the big drive belt. One mans pitchfork caught in the belt which jerked It out of his hands and hurled it through the air to wards Reeves and the children. One tine pierced Lester’s abdomen, puncturing the intestines.

The unfortunate man Jerked the steel from his own body and fellow workmen took him at once to Richland where he was transferred to an other car and brought to the Dahlquist hospital at Scobey, where Dr.'s Collinson and Morrow were summoned

Sent to Minot

The Scobey doctors probed the wound to find the path of the tine. They knew the case was a serious one and that a critical operation might be necessary. Mr. Reeves was sent by car to Wolf Point where he was take aboard the train for Minot.

A first operation revealed the punctures in the intestines and peritonitis set in. A second operation Monday failed to give the necessary relief and death relieved his suffering on Tuesday morning, October 18.

OBITUARY

Lester Dill Reeves was born at Windom, Minn., on May 10, 1989, but spent most of his boyhood days at Bemidji . In 1916 the family came to Montana and have almost continually made their home in the northwest part of Daniels county.

In 1924 Miss Goldie Boyce became his bride and to them, one child, a boy, now almost two years of age, was born. For the past few years he has bees farming in partnership with his brother and this fall had worked all season with the same threshing outfit.

Lester was a fellow with many likeable qualities. His neighbors had nothing but good words for him and his death is a sad blow to the entire community.

Besides his grief stricken wife and baby, he Is mourned by his, parent and three brothers, Claude of Richland, Ted of Portland, Oregon, and Archie of North Dakota, all of whom have the sincere sympathy of their friends and neighbors.

FUNERAL NOTICE

The, funeral of the late Lester Reeves will be held Saturday front the Methodist Episcopal Church , Scobey, at 2 o’clock, when a legion of friends will pay final tribute to the departed. Burial will be made in the Scobey cemetery.

Press Clipping from the local paper in Scoby 1934 Steve's Grandfather's death.

Laid to Rest Here Monday Afternoon

Stephen Boyce was laid to rest Monday afternoon in Highland cemetery following funeral services held in the Holland and Beitine funeral home, at which the Rev. Charles G. Cole officiated.

Pallbearers were John Norton, George Barber, W. Williamson, Ed Redwing, Theodore Severtson and Lawrence Shehy.

Miss Donna Watts - Miss Pearl Ann Steffer song “In the Garden,” “Beautiful Isle’, and In the Sweet By and By.”

Born Dec. 24,1852; Stephen Boyce was the son of John D. and Margaret (Crooks) Boyce.

At the age of 21 Boyce left Ohio for California. He- traveled with four young men companions, who, due to Mr. Boyce honesty and alertness, intrusted their money to “honest Steve” as they nicknamed him. During his five years in California he traveled through the San Joaquin valley as a gold miner and mule team skinner.

Later he logged in the giant redwoods in northern California, and proved up on a homestead where the city of Walla Walla now stands. He told of driving 200 miles across country to care for his homestead papers. At night he camped off the trail to avoid unfriendly visits of Redmen. On one day he had watched Indians follow him for miles. Later he went into the Deer Lodge country in Montana.

Boyce came from Deer Lodge to the Bear Paw mountains in the early 8O’s with the Bielenberg and Conrad Kohrs outfit, later managing a horse and cattle ranch in the mountains. This business he continued untll1914. He was the first vice president of the Ranchers’ Stock association formed in the Bear Paws in 1897. He at one time owned the old Palace hotel in Havre. After selling his ranch in 1914, Boyce moved to Poplar where he engaged in the livery business. In 1918, he moved into the Horse Shoe Basin community in northwestern Daniels county, where he engaged in farming. He suffered a stroke in 1934 and was confined to his bed remainder of his life. He died in a Havre hospital March 3.

He had been married to Miss Edith Henderson In Fort Benton she dying in 1931.

Surviving him are his children Stephen, Havre Sarl, Big Sandy, Mrs. Goldie Maylone, Oakland, Calif.; Claire, Butte; and Loya, Tampico.

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