Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007 This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter. Gidding Sam W 601020 p1 Final Rites for Winfleld Giddings; Final rites were conducted at 10 am, yesterday in Evans Chapel for Sam Winfield Giddings, 71, who died of an apparent heart attack Saturday morning. Rev. Albert Foster, pastor of the Federated Church. officiated and interment was in Del Puerto Cemetery. A native of Kentucky, Giddings had lived five years in this area, an employee at the T. C. Daily ranch north of Westley. He had been a ranch worker for the Daily family in Southern California the previous 40 years. He leaves a brother, R. L. Giddings, of Gustine and 13 brothers and sisters in the Midwest. Giddings was found lying beside his tractor in an alfalfa field, apparently having been stricken while operating it.