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The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., October 2, 1958, page 8

BILL BAUGESS KILLED IN FALL

Bill (Nummia Blewford) Baugess, 62, White Salmon, was killed Friday, September 26, at the Fruitland, Idaho when he fell 25 feet from a bridge scaffold and hit a concrete pier. He was employed by a construction firm.
Prior to the fall, he complained of feeling ill according to Payette County Coroner Gifford R. Shaffer.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1 at Gardner's Funeral Home. The Rev. Homer Coulson officiated. Burial was the in the Odd Fellows cemetery.
Pall bearers were William Lauterbach, Charles Rayburn, Harold Gross, George Molden, Grant Saulie, Norman Krall and Gib Gross.
Mr. Baugess was born Sept. 12, 1896 at Volney, Virginia where he attended school prior to locating at Spokane and when he was 17 years old.
In World War I he enlisted with the U.S. Army and served overseas until 1910 when he was discharged at Ft. Lewis.
In 1934 he and his wife Ruth were married at Las Vegas, Nevada. From 1936 to 1941 he worked on the Grand Coulee project and until 1947 at Vancouver shipyards. Since then he has followed logging, heavy construction work and ranching.
Last year from March to June he traveled to Columbia, Central America, where he planned to start a lumber mill after disposing of his ranch three miles north of BZ Corners and other property.
He is survived by his wife Ruth W. of White Salmon; sons, Jimmy R., USN, San Diego, California, and Charles Wayne, USA, Alameda, California; daughters Anna Leah and Carol Jean of White Salmon.
A brother, Dean, lives in No. Bonneville; and in North Carolina, his parents Mr. and Mrs. George W. Baugess of North Wilksboro and three sisters: May Hutchins and Lola Kanupp and Oakie Schumate.