Lettie Catherine Arbogast
1893 - 1974 (81 years)Lettie C. Arbogast story
Lettie Catherine Arbogast was born in Miller South Dakota on July 18,1893. Her parents John Louis Arbogast and Maggie Ross /Arbogast they were well off and a well respected family. John Arbogast owned one of the largest apple orchards in Washington. Lettie's younger brother Frank Arbogast tragically died at the age of 18 in a car accident, on July 10,1914. Frank was on his way back home ,from Waterville, they were at a 4th of July party. At 4 am Franks car didn't make the curve in road. He went off the road and he went down a steep incline, His car flipped over several times. The other occupants in the car was Miss Mabel Reeves ,Earl Jones, and Louis Arbogast they were thrown out with only minor injuries. Franks chest hit the steering wheel and it caused major chest Trauma. They think Frank was exausted and probably fell a sleep at the wheel. John Arbogast , Rev. J. O Hawk and Mr.Henry rushed Frank to the hospital in Wenatchee but he died a hour later. On March 11,1919 Lettie married William Curtis Headley and they had 3 daughters Dorothy, Maxine, Patricia and 1 son Kenneth. Lettie's mother Maggie died in 1927, after Maggie died Lettie's father John deiced sell the apple orchard and to buy an orange orchard in San Bernadino area in California. John ended up losing his money in this deal because of the stock market collapse on black friday 1929 and of banks closing down. John Arbogast died there in 1930, Both of her parents died in there late sixties. So because of that Lettie lost her inheritance and the depression, made it go from bad to worse. Lettie's husband William, died of cancer in 1948, at the age of 64 and she was left to raise her youngest daughter Patty by her self in Yakima Washington. In 1955 Patty married Edward Inkpen and he was in the Air Force so they moved around a lot. After that Lettie married a man named Hundley, who physically abused Lettie. So she divorced him but he paid her lawyer. So Hundley got her house in the settlement. Lettie lived to the age of 81, she had a stroke and died soon after that in 1974, in Tacoma Washington.
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