Van Ransier Gold

Van Ransier Gold, 90, 2722 Grant, died this morning at the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City of a heart ailment.

Mr. Gold was born June 23, 1872 in McArthur, Ohio, a son of John and Alice Pilcher Gold. The family moved to Sedalia, Mo., about 1882 and came to Utah in 1917. On February 13, 1899, he was married to Georgia Grant in Sedalia. He was an electrician and had been employed by the George Wilson Electric Shop and later worked with the California Packing Co. and Heitz Heating. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War.

Surviving is his widow.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 am in Lindquist and Sons Colonial Chapel. Friends may call at the mortuary Wednesday from 7 to 9 pm and Thursday prior to services. Interment in Washington Heights Memorial Park.

Van is not a relative of mine. I noticed that there were never any flowers on his grave or his wife's, except for what the VFW placed there. During a trip to the library in Ogden, I found his obituary while doing an archive search. When I saw that there were no survivors but Georgia, and now she rests beside him, I decided to "adopt" him. I include his information with my own, with this notation.

Why?

Simple. NO Veteran should EVER be forgotten.

  Van Ransier Gold  

Utah

PVT Co M2 Regt Mo Inf

Spanish American War

7/23/1872-7/15/1962

Source: Ogden Standard-Examiner Obtained fron Newspaper Microfilm Archive at Ogden City Library