Dr. Ernest Angst Dies in Oklahoma
Friends of the pioneer family of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Angst of Riverside were grieved this week to learn of the death at Norman, Okla., last Friday, April 18, of their son, Dr. Ernest C. Angst, 31, who was professor of botany at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Angst was born at Chehalis February 15, 1899. He graduated from the Chehalis high school in 1918 with honors. Later he attended the University of Washington at Seattle, where he distinguished himself along scientific lines. He won the bachelor and master degrees in science there and last June at the same institution a Ph.D. degree. He was a member of Phi Sigma and Sigma Pai[sic] scientific honor societies, and also the American Society of Bacteriologists. Taking up his work as an instructor, he held a professorship four years in the southern branch of the University of Idaho. For the past year he had filled the position at Norman, which he held when he died. Recently Dr. Angst had accepted an offer to teach during the coming summer at the University of Iowa, at which work he planned to spend the summer.
Dr. Angst's death was caused by a tumor on the brain, which the attending physician stated had probably been developing over a period of several years. He died very suddenly, never regaining consciousness after being stricken Friday forenoon.
He leaves besides his widow, Mrs. Caryl Cramlett Angst; his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Angst of Riverside, Chehalis; a sister, Mrs. Jesse Black, and a half-brother, George Angst of Chehalis; a brother, Sol G. Angst of Seattle; a sister, Miss Laura Angst, who is a teacher in Mount Vernon high school; a half-sister, Mrs. Albert E. Yeo, and a half-brother, Levi Angst, both of Cypress River, Manitoba, Canada, to mourn his death.
Funeral services were held at Puyallup Wednesday afternoon. The Baptist minister there officiated, assisted by Rev. W. B. Leonard of Chehalis. The pallbearers were young men, graduate students in the biology department of the University of Washington. Burial was at Puyallup.
Source: The Chehalis Bee-Nugget, Friday, 26 Apr 1930, p. 10.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen.