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Author: jodypl
Surnames: Pickerell, Parsons, Millsaps, Coronado
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Reno Evening Gazette
Nov. 3, 1920
WALTER PICKERELL DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT
City Councilman Walter Pickerell, who was injured Monday night in a collision with an
automobile driven by Joe Gardella on the South Virginia road, died at 12:30 o'clock
this morning without regaining consciousness. The funeral will probably be held Friday
afternoon.
Fracture of the base of his skull was the cause of Pickerell's death, according to
Dr. S. K. Morrison who attended the injured man.
"The injury was of a fatal nature and so terrible that the result was
inevitable" the doctor stated today.
Pickerell was councilman from the First ward. He was born and raised in this county,
spending his boyhood on a ranch north of Reno. At one time he was a fireman on the
railroad, but an accident that cost him the sight of one eye caused him to leave
railroading and he became a stationary engineer, working in various parts of the county.
At the time of his death he was connected with the state highway department and was
handling the heavy steam rollers used in the department's work on the South Virginia
road.
It was while on his return from his work south of the city that Pickerell, riding a
motorcycle, collided with Gardella, who was driving ahead of him. Gerdella explains the
accident by the statement that just before he turned into Holcomn Lane on his way home, he
heard Pickerell honk the motorcycle horn and put out his hand before making the turn into
the lane. Pickerell's motorcycle ran into the side of the automobile. Pickerell was
immediately brought to a hospital and Dr. Morrison and Dr. West were called in to handle
the case.
Pickerell was forty-four years old and was born next door to the house on Humboldt
street in which he was living at the time of his death. The widow, two brothers, Fred and
William, a nephew, M. L. Millsaps, and a cousin, I. L. Millsaps, all of Reno, survive
him.
Reno Evening Gazette
Nov. 4, 1920
PICKERELL - In Reno, November 3, 1920, Walter, husband of Constance Pickerell, brother of
Fred Pickerell and William Parsons, nephew of M. L. Millsaps and cousin of I. L. Millsaps
of Reno, a native of California, aged 44 years.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services at the chapel of the Perkins-Culling(?)
Company, tomorrow, Friday afternoon at two o'clock. Rev. Brewster Adams officiating.
Interment Mt. View cemetery.
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