The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Thursday, June 13, 1968:
A. C. (Gus) Hart Dies,
Retired T&P Engineer
August Clyde (Gus) Hart, 84, died of a pulmonary infection in the doctor's office of a local hospital at 10:30 a.m. today, after he had been rushed there from the Bennett House.
Mr. Hart had been in a nursing home since last May 27. He had been doing reasonably well after breaking a hip early in May, but his condition suddenly worsened Wednesday evening.
Mr. Hart worked for the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. 43 years, retiring nearly 20 years ago as a locomotive engineer. He started as a "call boy" and later became a fireman on the old wood-burning engines. He retired just as the diesel engines were put into service.
Funeral services have tentatively been set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Wagner officiating. Arrangements are in charge of River-Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in the family plot in the City Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. John W. Garrison, Big Spring; two sons, O. C. Hart, Baltimore, Md., and Tommy Hart, Big Spring; a brother, John Hart, Cross Plains; and three sisters, Mrs. Ray Frye, Cisco; Mrs. Andy Foster, Cross Plains; and Mrs. Eva Huntington, Abilene; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hart first came to Texas in his early teens in search of adventure. Born in Athens, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1883, he had lost his father, who died of injuries suffered in a wrestling ring, at the age of nine.
He eventually struck out for Texas and hired out with a Callahan County rancher for what he thought was cowboy work, but quit not long thereafter when he was assigned to the job of digging post holes.
Later, he toiled as a hand in a wheat harvest around Ponca City, Okla. When the company lost its cook, he took the job although he had never worked in a kitchen, outside of looking over the shoulder of his mother as she prepared the family meals.
With the railroad union, Mr. Hart served as "local chairman" several years.
His wife, the former Minnie Ola Westerman of Callahan County, preceded him in death by about two years. A Son, Howard, died in an auto-bus accident east of Colorado City in 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart made their home at 504 Bell Street, having moved there in 1922. It was there the he fell and fractured his hip. He had lived alone since Mrs. Hart died.
A. C. (Gus) Hart Dies,
Retired T&P Engineer
August Clyde (Gus) Hart, 84, died of a pulmonary infection in the doctor's office of a local hospital at 10:30 a.m. today, after he had been rushed there from the Bennett House.
Mr. Hart had been in a nursing home since last May 27. He had been doing reasonably well after breaking a hip early in May, but his condition suddenly worsened Wednesday evening.
Mr. Hart worked for the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. 43 years, retiring nearly 20 years ago as a locomotive engineer. He started as a "call boy" and later became a fireman on the old wood-burning engines. He retired just as the diesel engines were put into service.
Funeral services have tentatively been set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Wagner officiating. Arrangements are in charge of River-Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in the family plot in the City Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. John W. Garrison, Big Spring; two sons, O. C. Hart, Baltimore, Md., and Tommy Hart, Big Spring; a brother, John Hart, Cross Plains; and three sisters, Mrs. Ray Frye, Cisco; Mrs. Andy Foster, Cross Plains; and Mrs. Eva Huntington, Abilene; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hart first came to Texas in his early teens in search of adventure. Born in Athens, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1883, he had lost his father, who died of injuries suffered in a wrestling ring, at the age of nine.
He eventually struck out for Texas and hired out with a Callahan County rancher for what he thought was cowboy work, but quit not long thereafter when he was assigned to the job of digging post holes.
Later, he toiled as a hand in a wheat harvest around Ponca City, Okla. When the company lost its cook, he took the job although he had never worked in a kitchen, outside of looking over the shoulder of his mother as she prepared the family meals.
With the railroad union, Mr. Hart served as "local chairman" several years.
His wife, the former Minnie Ola Westerman of Callahan County, preceded him in death by about two years. A Son, Howard, died in an auto-bus accident east of Colorado City in 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart made their home at 504 Bell Street, having moved there in 1922. It was there the he fell and fractured his hip. He had lived alone since Mrs. Hart died.
The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Thursday, June 13, 1968:
A. C. (Gus) Hart Dies,
Retired T&P Engineer
August Clyde (Gus) Hart, 84, died of a pulmonary infection in the doctor's office of a local hospital at 10:30 a.m. today, after he had been rushed there from the Bennett House.
Mr. Hart had been in a nursing home since last May 27. He had been doing reasonably well after breaking a hip early in May, but his condition suddenly worsened Wednesday evening.
Mr. Hart worked for the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. 43 years, retiring nearly 20 years ago as a locomotive engineer. He started as a "call boy" and later became a fireman on the old wood-burning engines. He retired just as the diesel engines were put into service.
Funeral services have tentatively been set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Wagner officiating. Arrangements are in charge of River-Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in the family plot in the City Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. John W. Garrison, Big Spring; two sons, O. C. Hart, Baltimore, Md., and Tommy Hart, Big Spring; a brother, John Hart, Cross Plains; and three sisters, Mrs. Ray Frye, Cisco; Mrs. Andy Foster, Cross Plains; and Mrs. Eva Huntington, Abilene; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hart first came to Texas in his early teens in search of adventure. Born in Athens, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1883, he had lost his father, who died of injuries suffered in a wrestling ring, at the age of nine.
He eventually struck out for Texas and hired out with a Callahan County rancher for what he thought was cowboy work, but quit not long thereafter when he was assigned to the job of digging post holes.
Later, he toiled as a hand in a wheat harvest around Ponca City, Okla. When the company lost its cook, he took the job although he had never worked in a kitchen, outside of looking over the shoulder of his mother as she prepared the family meals.
With the railroad union, Mr. Hart served as "local chairman" several years.
His wife, the former Minnie Ola Westerman of Callahan County, preceded him in death by about two years. A Son, Howard, died in an auto-bus accident east of Colorado City in 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart made their home at 504 Bell Street, having moved there in 1922. It was there the he fell and fractured his hip. He had lived alone since Mrs. Hart died.
A. C. (Gus) Hart Dies,
Retired T&P Engineer
August Clyde (Gus) Hart, 84, died of a pulmonary infection in the doctor's office of a local hospital at 10:30 a.m. today, after he had been rushed there from the Bennett House.
Mr. Hart had been in a nursing home since last May 27. He had been doing reasonably well after breaking a hip early in May, but his condition suddenly worsened Wednesday evening.
Mr. Hart worked for the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. 43 years, retiring nearly 20 years ago as a locomotive engineer. He started as a "call boy" and later became a fireman on the old wood-burning engines. He retired just as the diesel engines were put into service.
Funeral services have tentatively been set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Wagner officiating. Arrangements are in charge of River-Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in the family plot in the City Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. John W. Garrison, Big Spring; two sons, O. C. Hart, Baltimore, Md., and Tommy Hart, Big Spring; a brother, John Hart, Cross Plains; and three sisters, Mrs. Ray Frye, Cisco; Mrs. Andy Foster, Cross Plains; and Mrs. Eva Huntington, Abilene; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hart first came to Texas in his early teens in search of adventure. Born in Athens, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1883, he had lost his father, who died of injuries suffered in a wrestling ring, at the age of nine.
He eventually struck out for Texas and hired out with a Callahan County rancher for what he thought was cowboy work, but quit not long thereafter when he was assigned to the job of digging post holes.
Later, he toiled as a hand in a wheat harvest around Ponca City, Okla. When the company lost its cook, he took the job although he had never worked in a kitchen, outside of looking over the shoulder of his mother as she prepared the family meals.
With the railroad union, Mr. Hart served as "local chairman" several years.
His wife, the former Minnie Ola Westerman of Callahan County, preceded him in death by about two years. A Son, Howard, died in an auto-bus accident east of Colorado City in 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart made their home at 504 Bell Street, having moved there in 1922. It was there the he fell and fractured his hip. He had lived alone since Mrs. Hart died.
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