Charles H. Waxham
The Sugar City Gazette Thursday, 25 November 1937

Dr. Waxham Dies of Heart Attack
   Dr. Chas. H. Waxham, aged 76, veteran physician and pioneer citizen of Sugar City, died suddenly at his home here about 7:00 o'clock Tuesday morning of a heart attack. He had been in poor health for several months and had lately returned from the Physicians hospital in Rocky Ford after receiving treatment there. During the last few days he was apparently feeling better and was attending to a part of his medical practice as usual. Tuesday morning he had arisen and was dressing, when his daughter, Mrs. Stafford, went to the room to arrange the heat and found him lying dead on the floor.
   Dr. Waxham was one of the first to locate in Sugar City, shortly after the founding of the sugar business here. Coming from Chicago, he practiced his profession here since that time.
   During the World War, Dr. Waxham volunteered for service in the Medical corps and served throughout the conflict with the rank of Lieutenant. He was stationed at various military hospitals on the Eastern coast.
   Dr. Waxham was noted for civic pride and took a great interest in the social and political affairs of the town.
   For more than thirty-five years he had been the regular accredited physician for the National Sugar Company here. He also enjoyed a large practice, his ministrations extending over a large area in the range country north and east of here. In later years, however, his long trips had been curtailed by advancing age.
   Dr. Waxham was known, loved and respected by a wide circle of friends and neighbors, and his kindly, efficient ministrations to the sick and afflicted in the homes of hundreds in the community will long be remembered.
   The many friends join the Gazette in sincere sympathy for the bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. Stafford and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Waxham.

Obituary

   Charles H. Waxham was born in La Porte County, Indiana on May 4, 1861. The family later moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he attended public school and later graduated from a school of pharmacy.
   On July 11, 1880, Charles Waxham and Hettie L. Gebler were united in marriage and were the parents of three children, Mrs. C. H. Stafford, of Sugar City, Colo., a daughter, Grace Caroline, who died in infancy and C. LeRoy Waxham, of Swink, Colo.
   Dr. Waxham moved to Chicago in 1882 and owned and operated a drug store there until he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, graduating in 1893. After practicing there a few years he moved to Indiana and remained there until 1900. In 1901 he came to Sugar City and has practiced here ever since that time.
   Dr. Waxham was a Second Lieutenant in the Motor Transport Division during the World War and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and later Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana and also served in detached service, receiving his honorable discharge at the end of the War.
   Dr. Waxham has been in ill health for the past year and only recently returned from the Physicians hospital in Rocky Ford. He seemed to have had a comfortable day Monday and a quiet night and was up at about 6:30 A.M. He evidently arose later on and was stricken while dressing. He was found dead in the door-way between his bed room and the front room.
   Dr. Waxham is the last of his family of three brothers and a sister. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. C.H. Stafford, a son C. LeRoy Waxham and a granddaughter.
   Funeral services in charge of the American Legion will be held on Friday afternoon at 2:00 P.M. at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sugar City. Body will be sent to Denver Friday night.
   The body will be at the Waxham residence from Thursday noon until time for services.
   The family requests that flowers be omitted.