CHARLES LOUIS WAKEFIELD
Funeral services for Charles Louis Wakefield, 77, long a business and civic leader in Dallas, who died Monday, will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday by Bishop Harry T. Moore in the Sparkman-Holtz-Brand chapel, 2115 Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery with services by Dallas Masonic Lodge.
Long prominent in work of the city-county Hospital, the Public Library, the Red Cross, the old Commercial Club, and the City Democratic Committee, Mr. Wakefield was president of the Dallas Ice Company and the Dallas Ice Delivery Company at the time of his death.
Mr. Wakefield was regarded by many as the father of the Dallas Public Library as he campaigned in its behalf before the city government and the Legislature.
He began his career in the telephone business. His early enterprises included street car operations in Dallas in the Gay Nineties and later the ice business.
In the street railway business he was a pioneer. As early as 1890, Albert W. Childress organized and headed as president the Dallas Cable Railway Company, which hoped to bring the first cable services to the South to extend along Elm from the Trinity River to the Fair Grounds. This effort fell through and another made in a year under reorganization was also unsuccessful. In 1893 the property was sold to the Queen City Railway Company, of which Mr. Childress was president and general manager and he was assisted in his work by Mr. Wakefield who was secretary-treasurer. This company completed and electrified the line.
He was a member of the Masonic order, Elks, Rotary, Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Country Club, and Telephone Pioneers.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Maunsell Wakefield; a son, Maunsell C. Wakefield, Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. M. E. Romine, Mrs. Marjorie Conant, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Harry Lee Cook of Chicago; and ten grandchildren.
At the services Tuesday Robert S. Pool, an old friend, will sing.
Active pallbearers will be Harold H. Young, Harry Benge Crozier, William Duls, James E. Forrest, Tom C. Gooch, and William H. Kittrell, Jr.
Dallas News
04-12-1938
Transcribed by Carol Moore
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents: Clark W. Wakefield and Emma Hill; spouse: Anna Wakefield
Funeral services for Charles Louis Wakefield, 77, long a business and civic leader in Dallas, who died Monday, will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday by Bishop Harry T. Moore in the Sparkman-Holtz-Brand chapel, 2115 Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery with services by Dallas Masonic Lodge.
Long prominent in work of the city-county Hospital, the Public Library, the Red Cross, the old Commercial Club, and the City Democratic Committee, Mr. Wakefield was president of the Dallas Ice Company and the Dallas Ice Delivery Company at the time of his death.
Mr. Wakefield was regarded by many as the father of the Dallas Public Library as he campaigned in its behalf before the city government and the Legislature.
He began his career in the telephone business. His early enterprises included street car operations in Dallas in the Gay Nineties and later the ice business.
In the street railway business he was a pioneer. As early as 1890, Albert W. Childress organized and headed as president the Dallas Cable Railway Company, which hoped to bring the first cable services to the South to extend along Elm from the Trinity River to the Fair Grounds. This effort fell through and another made in a year under reorganization was also unsuccessful. In 1893 the property was sold to the Queen City Railway Company, of which Mr. Childress was president and general manager and he was assisted in his work by Mr. Wakefield who was secretary-treasurer. This company completed and electrified the line.
He was a member of the Masonic order, Elks, Rotary, Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Country Club, and Telephone Pioneers.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Maunsell Wakefield; a son, Maunsell C. Wakefield, Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. M. E. Romine, Mrs. Marjorie Conant, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Harry Lee Cook of Chicago; and ten grandchildren.
At the services Tuesday Robert S. Pool, an old friend, will sing.
Active pallbearers will be Harold H. Young, Harry Benge Crozier, William Duls, James E. Forrest, Tom C. Gooch, and William H. Kittrell, Jr.
Dallas News
04-12-1938
Transcribed by Carol Moore
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents: Clark W. Wakefield and Emma Hill; spouse: Anna Wakefield
CHARLES LOUIS WAKEFIELD
Funeral services for Charles Louis Wakefield, 77, long a business and civic leader in Dallas, who died Monday, will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday by Bishop Harry T. Moore in the Sparkman-Holtz-Brand chapel, 2115 Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery with services by Dallas Masonic Lodge.
Long prominent in work of the city-county Hospital, the Public Library, the Red Cross, the old Commercial Club, and the City Democratic Committee, Mr. Wakefield was president of the Dallas Ice Company and the Dallas Ice Delivery Company at the time of his death.
Mr. Wakefield was regarded by many as the father of the Dallas Public Library as he campaigned in its behalf before the city government and the Legislature.
He began his career in the telephone business. His early enterprises included street car operations in Dallas in the Gay Nineties and later the ice business.
In the street railway business he was a pioneer. As early as 1890, Albert W. Childress organized and headed as president the Dallas Cable Railway Company, which hoped to bring the first cable services to the South to extend along Elm from the Trinity River to the Fair Grounds. This effort fell through and another made in a year under reorganization was also unsuccessful. In 1893 the property was sold to the Queen City Railway Company, of which Mr. Childress was president and general manager and he was assisted in his work by Mr. Wakefield who was secretary-treasurer. This company completed and electrified the line.
He was a member of the Masonic order, Elks, Rotary, Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Country Club, and Telephone Pioneers.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Maunsell Wakefield; a son, Maunsell C. Wakefield, Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. M. E. Romine, Mrs. Marjorie Conant, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Harry Lee Cook of Chicago; and ten grandchildren.
At the services Tuesday Robert S. Pool, an old friend, will sing.
Active pallbearers will be Harold H. Young, Harry Benge Crozier, William Duls, James E. Forrest, Tom C. Gooch, and William H. Kittrell, Jr.
Dallas News
04-12-1938
Transcribed by Carol Moore
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents: Clark W. Wakefield and Emma Hill; spouse: Anna Wakefield
Funeral services for Charles Louis Wakefield, 77, long a business and civic leader in Dallas, who died Monday, will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday by Bishop Harry T. Moore in the Sparkman-Holtz-Brand chapel, 2115 Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery with services by Dallas Masonic Lodge.
Long prominent in work of the city-county Hospital, the Public Library, the Red Cross, the old Commercial Club, and the City Democratic Committee, Mr. Wakefield was president of the Dallas Ice Company and the Dallas Ice Delivery Company at the time of his death.
Mr. Wakefield was regarded by many as the father of the Dallas Public Library as he campaigned in its behalf before the city government and the Legislature.
He began his career in the telephone business. His early enterprises included street car operations in Dallas in the Gay Nineties and later the ice business.
In the street railway business he was a pioneer. As early as 1890, Albert W. Childress organized and headed as president the Dallas Cable Railway Company, which hoped to bring the first cable services to the South to extend along Elm from the Trinity River to the Fair Grounds. This effort fell through and another made in a year under reorganization was also unsuccessful. In 1893 the property was sold to the Queen City Railway Company, of which Mr. Childress was president and general manager and he was assisted in his work by Mr. Wakefield who was secretary-treasurer. This company completed and electrified the line.
He was a member of the Masonic order, Elks, Rotary, Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Country Club, and Telephone Pioneers.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Maunsell Wakefield; a son, Maunsell C. Wakefield, Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. M. E. Romine, Mrs. Marjorie Conant, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Harry Lee Cook of Chicago; and ten grandchildren.
At the services Tuesday Robert S. Pool, an old friend, will sing.
Active pallbearers will be Harold H. Young, Harry Benge Crozier, William Duls, James E. Forrest, Tom C. Gooch, and William H. Kittrell, Jr.
Dallas News
04-12-1938
Transcribed by Carol Moore
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents: Clark W. Wakefield and Emma Hill; spouse: Anna Wakefield
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