Elmer Raymond Tomkinson |
| Posted 2017-11-18 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona Friday, March 5, 1989, page 11 Elmer Tomkinson Elmer Raymond Tomkinson of Prescott, died Thursday, March 2, 1989 at Yavapai Regional Medical Center. He was 84 years old. Tomkinson was born July 8, 1904 in Nogales, Ariz., to Raymond and Emma Z. (Western) Tomkinson. He was a lifetime miner, starting his mining career in Bisbee and Miami Ariz. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and a 35-year member of the B.P.O. Elks. In 1939, her moved to Bagdad as the mine superintendent. He stayed there until 1942, when he went to work for the Iron King Mine at Humboldt as mine superintendent. He left in 1963 as the assistant general manager. He then moved to Eureka, Utah, as the secretary- treasurer of the Chief Consolidating Mining Company. In 1983, Tomkinson retired and moved to Green Valley, Ariz. He returned to Prescott in 1985. Survivors include his wife Johnnie of Prescott; two daughters, Beatrice Still of Tucson and Velvalee Cluff of Mesa; two step- daughters, Patricia Hill of Prescott and Pat Ferra of Olympia, Wash.; two step-sons, Richard Simoni of Houston, Texas, and Jerry Simoni of Atlanta, Ga.; two sisters, Nellie Klein of Long Beach, Calif., and Leora Jay of Tucson; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Gregory, Susan and Deborah; and five great-grandchildren, Marc, Rayan, Tara, Christina and Erica. A Time of Remembrance is at 2 p.m. Monday, March 6, 1989 at Arizona Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Home, 303 S. Cortez. Interment is at Mountain Valley Cemetery. |
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