Page Family - Merle Page - Obituary

I remember when Merle died. I was in the kitchen at the 4610 N. Vagedes house, when my Dad came in and said that Merle had died after having an auto accident. Dad said that Mearl had a heart attack.

This news clipping from a Fresno paper reads as follows:

Mearl W. Page Dies After Dispute With Motorist

     Mearl Weit Page, Sr., 59, of 4638 East Madison Avenue, a sale supervisor for a local bakery company, died late yesterday after suffering a heart attack at Belmont and Cedar Avenues.

     The police reported Page telephoned them to report another motorist kicked his car, damaging a door, in a dispute. Patrolmen Edward Haddad and J. L. Packard said Page collapsed shortly after they arrived at the scene.

     He was dead on arrival in the Fresno County General Hospital a few minutes later.

     The officers reported Page's widow, Elizabeth, told them her husband had been under treatment for heart disease.

     Page was born in Effingham, Kan. He came to Fresno when he was a child. Later he lived in San Francisco and San Jose and in 1942 returned to Fresno.

     He was a member of Fresno Masonic Lodge No. 247.

Sons Survive

     In addition to his widow he is survived by two sons, Mearl W., Jr., and Fred Earl of Fresno; two brothers, Fred of Porterville, Tulare County, and Earl of Stockton, San .....

     I do not have the rest of the article. I looked through Newspapers.com in Fresno for this time period and could not find the rest of the obituary. I am wondering if it is from a Bay area paper. 

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