Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

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Buchanan Charles E 541111 p1
Services Held for Charles Buchanan; Charles E. Buchanan, 77, a long time resident of South 3rd Street, died Sunday
morning in a Modesto Hospital.  Services were conducted Tuesday morning at Evans Chapel by the Rev. R. L. Hrville of
the Southern Baptist Church. Interment was at Del Puerto Cemetery. He was a native of Bristol, Virginia but spent much
of his life in Fairfield, Iowa.  In Iowa he worked on a ranch where thoroughbred horses were raised.  Vic Bowman, who
worked with him, recalls that top flight horses were developed and delivered into the Indian country in the Dakotas.
Buchanan was a resident of Patterson 34 years.  He continued to raise thoroughbred horses here for the late Norman
Thompson on what is now the Welty place on East Las Palmas.  These horses were shown at the county and state fairs,
winning a trunk load of ribbons. Later Buchanan drove a truck for Al Watson's feed store.  He and the late John Norell
bought out Watson in 1935.  The store is now owned by Jepson and Correia. Surviving are his widow,  Mrs. Vern
Buchanan; three sons, Charles of Oakland, William of Hayward, Bruce of Los Angles; one daughter, Mrs. Judson Stone
of Modesto; four brothers, James, John, Vance and Sam of St. Paul, Minnesota; two sisters, Mrs. Naney Hughes of
Corter, Missouri and Mrs. Mary Vorwack of Odessa, Missouri. Pall bearers were Vic Bowman, Walter Sorenson, John
Nicolds, Tom Jackson , Wilbur Tschantz and Lester Glotfelty.