Obituary:
PLAIN DEALER
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Monday, 17 March 1947
BUREAU CHIEF OF KANSAS CITY STAR IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, March 16—Theodore Crandall Alford, 61-year-old chief of the Kansas City Star's Washington bureau, died today of complications following a lung operation.
He succumbed at George Washington University Hospital, where two weeks ago doctors removed one of his lungs in the hope of saving his life.
At his bedside was his wife, the former Adeline Ledbetter Harvey, and their son, Theodore, jr., a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Their daughter, Mrs. Garland Wilson, is en route here from her home in St. Joseph, Mo.
Congregational funeral services will be held at the All Souls Memorial Church here at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
A native of Lawrence, Kans., Alford was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 and began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Kansas City Times.
In 1914, a year after he married, Alford earned a law degree at the Kansas City School of Law. But he decided to forego a legal career in favor of newspaper work and held down jobs as a reporter on various papers until 1928.
Then 42, he was chosen by the Star as its Washington correspondent and bureau chief—a post he held for 19 years. He stepped into a job that had been held by Roy A. Roberts, now president of the paper.
PLAIN DEALER
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Monday, 17 March 1947
BUREAU CHIEF OF KANSAS CITY STAR IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, March 16—Theodore Crandall Alford, 61-year-old chief of the Kansas City Star's Washington bureau, died today of complications following a lung operation.
He succumbed at George Washington University Hospital, where two weeks ago doctors removed one of his lungs in the hope of saving his life.
At his bedside was his wife, the former Adeline Ledbetter Harvey, and their son, Theodore, jr., a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Their daughter, Mrs. Garland Wilson, is en route here from her home in St. Joseph, Mo.
Congregational funeral services will be held at the All Souls Memorial Church here at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
A native of Lawrence, Kans., Alford was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 and began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Kansas City Times.
In 1914, a year after he married, Alford earned a law degree at the Kansas City School of Law. But he decided to forego a legal career in favor of newspaper work and held down jobs as a reporter on various papers until 1928.
Then 42, he was chosen by the Star as its Washington correspondent and bureau chief—a post he held for 19 years. He stepped into a job that had been held by Roy A. Roberts, now president of the paper.
Obituary:
PLAIN DEALER
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Monday, 17 March 1947
BUREAU CHIEF OF KANSAS CITY STAR IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, March 16—Theodore Crandall Alford, 61-year-old chief of the Kansas City Star's Washington bureau, died today of complications following a lung operation.
He succumbed at George Washington University Hospital, where two weeks ago doctors removed one of his lungs in the hope of saving his life.
At his bedside was his wife, the former Adeline Ledbetter Harvey, and their son, Theodore, jr., a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Their daughter, Mrs. Garland Wilson, is en route here from her home in St. Joseph, Mo.
Congregational funeral services will be held at the All Souls Memorial Church here at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
A native of Lawrence, Kans., Alford was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 and began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Kansas City Times.
In 1914, a year after he married, Alford earned a law degree at the Kansas City School of Law. But he decided to forego a legal career in favor of newspaper work and held down jobs as a reporter on various papers until 1928.
Then 42, he was chosen by the Star as its Washington correspondent and bureau chief—a post he held for 19 years. He stepped into a job that had been held by Roy A. Roberts, now president of the paper.
PLAIN DEALER
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Monday, 17 March 1947
BUREAU CHIEF OF KANSAS CITY STAR IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, March 16—Theodore Crandall Alford, 61-year-old chief of the Kansas City Star's Washington bureau, died today of complications following a lung operation.
He succumbed at George Washington University Hospital, where two weeks ago doctors removed one of his lungs in the hope of saving his life.
At his bedside was his wife, the former Adeline Ledbetter Harvey, and their son, Theodore, jr., a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Their daughter, Mrs. Garland Wilson, is en route here from her home in St. Joseph, Mo.
Congregational funeral services will be held at the All Souls Memorial Church here at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
A native of Lawrence, Kans., Alford was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 and began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Kansas City Times.
In 1914, a year after he married, Alford earned a law degree at the Kansas City School of Law. But he decided to forego a legal career in favor of newspaper work and held down jobs as a reporter on various papers until 1928.
Then 42, he was chosen by the Star as its Washington correspondent and bureau chief—a post he held for 19 years. He stepped into a job that had been held by Roy A. Roberts, now president of the paper.
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