WILLIAM FLOYD DEIBERT
WILLIAM FLOYD, YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM AND CHARLOTTE DEIBERT, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 1, 1882, IN RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 5, 1943, AT PORTLAND, OR., AGED 61 YEARS, THREE MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS.
HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO SHERIDAN COUNTY, KANSAS, IN MARCH, 1901, WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.
ON MAY 12, 1908, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SADIE OCOBACK. TO THIS UNION TWO SONS WERE BORN, ONE DYING IN INFANCY.
SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR HE SETTLED AT HAXTON, CO., WHERE HE MET AND MARRIED MABEL ALBERSHARDT ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1918. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN ONE SON. THEY RETURNED TO HOXIE, WHERE THEY LIVED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IN 1934 THEY MOVED TO DENVER, CO.
AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS DOING HIS PART IN THE WAR EFFORT BY WORKING IN THE SHIPYARDS AT PORTLAND, OR.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEPARTURE HIS WIFE, MABEL; TWO SONS, ELMER WITH THE ARMED FORCES IN PORTLAND, OR., AND WILLIAM JR., OF CALIFORNIA; TWO GRANDSONS; TWO BROTHERS, C.B. DEIBERT OF HOXIE AND L.B. DEIBERT OF DENVER; THREE SISTERS, MRS. IVA MURPHY OF REDDING, MRS. IDA WADDEL OF STERLING, CO., AND MRS. ALAMA HARRIS OF BERKELY, CA. AND A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
