HAROLD W. STURGEON

Traffic Deaths
 Continue To Rise

   Deaths in traffic accidents in Arizona continued to rise over the weekend.  As of this morning the total for the year stood at 21 dead, compared to 23 on this date last year.
   Killed in week-end accidents were:
    Joe Maestas, 35, Sonora.
    Walter Grace Jr.. 29. Flagstaff.
    Harold Sturgeon, 25, Tacoma, Wash,
   Maestas died in Ray hospital, soon after his car skidded off wet highway five miles south of Superior Saturday, went down an embankment and turned over twice.
   Grace and Sturgeon, both students at Arizona state college at Flagstaff, were killed Sunday when a car driven by Sturgeon, went off a curve and overturned 19 miles west of Kingman on U. S. highway 66. Two other passengers received minor injuries. Highway Patrolman Bob Broan said the car cut down 14 fence posts before it overturned.

Two Students
Killed In Crash
Special to The Republic

   KINGMAN, Jan. 14 --- Two Arizona State College at Flagstaff students were dead Sunday after the car in which they rode went off a curve and overturned 19 miles west of here on Highway 66.
   Dead are  William Walter Grace Jr.. 29, of Flagstaff, and Harold Sturgeon, 25, Tacoma, Wash.
   Two other passengers received minor injuries. They are Kenneth Thompson, 25, of Peach Springs who also attends the college, and Robert way, 29, bartender at the Kingman Club here.
   Grace died at the scene and Sturgeon died at Mohave County Hospital six hours after the accident  The accident occurred at 10 p.m. Saturday.
   Bob Broan, highway patrolman, said Sturgeon was driving the sedan which clipped 14 fence posts as it careened along the side of the highway before overturning several times.

[Arizona Republic,  Phoenix, AZ]

[courtesy of Tara Finnie Curley]

Death certificate and grave marker for Harold W. Sturgeon in Evergreen Garden, 16 JJ, Mountain View Memorial Park. Lakewood (Pierce county), Washington.

Harold enlisted in the Army at Fort Lewis, WA on 17 April 1944.

Pfc Sturgeon was transferred to Company B, 508th PIR in late 1945 or early 1946.

He enrolled at Arizona State University, Flagstaff ca. 1949 and was active in school affairs.  He was initiated into the Sigma Pi fraternity in December 1949 and had been elected as secretary-treasurer to the student council in April 1950.