The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-11-19
LATE WIND. TUBBS
WAS FRIEND OF BOYS
SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME IN
MANY WAYS DOING KIND
ACTS FOR OTHERS
BURIED AT POMONA, CAL.
DECEASED SPENT BOYHOOD
AND YOUNG MANHOOD IN
SAUK CENTRE

SAUK CENTRE
Since publishing the news of the
passing away of Win. D. Tubbs in
previous issue the Herald has Sc
cured further particulars which will
be of interest to Sank Centre people.
He was born a Otsego a little viii
lage near Elk River, Mimi, Febru-
airy 1858, and came here with his
parents in pioneer days. He gradu-
ated from the Sank Centre High
School and went to the Normal
School in St. Cloud. He accepted a
teaching position in North Dakota
and during vacations in company
with another young man, G. w. Nc
Kinnon, broke sod with four yoke of
oxen and an old fashioned turning:
pillow. He was principal of the Bath
gate N. D., Grammar School for
number of years later taking the
position of principal of the Pembina
Grammar School, North Dakota. He
later engaged in the grocery business
in Duluth but finally went West and
again took up school work.
During his first years in Californ-
Upland, but finally went into the au-
tomobile business and was one Of
the first dealers in this line in South
ern California. He entered into a
partnership with Mr.. Thomas now of
Upland, CAL, and they entered an
Oldsmobile in one OF the first road
races ever staged in Southern Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Tubbs often reviewed with
much pleasure in his later years the
incidents connected with that race, it
being an experience he never forgot
and he was always to the end of his
days the champion of clean sport.
For a brief while he engaged in
real estate business in Pomona being
associated with C.. A. Verify and
George Doremus.
During the war period he was one
of the staunch supporters of the gov
eminent and friend of the boys in
khaki many of them had known him.
in their school days and they never
failed to look upon him as their
friend. After the war he moved his
bicycle and athletic goods store to a
building on East Second Street, Po-
mona, which he purchased and which
he was still managing at the time of
his death.
Mr.. Tubbs' death occurred Fri
day, Nov. 9th at Pomona and came
quite suddenly. He was going about
his ordinary routine on Sunday morn
ing when he was stricken with APP
poplexy from which he never recov-
cred. He leaves a wife, an aged
mother Mrs. L. Tubbs, and a sister
Miss Julia Tubbs, all of California,
and two brothers Ben TubbsAof Fon-
du-lac, Wis, and Will Tubbs of Min
neapolis. The deceased was a men,
Der of the Pomina Lodge of Elks, the
Ancient Order of Free and Accepted
Masons and the Lions Club.
George w. McKinnon of Pomona
boyhood friend and lifelong COM
panion of Win Tubbs in an inter-
view given to the Pomona Bulletin,
gave many recollections of the life
of the deceased. Members of the
same boyhood gang and young men
together he was well able to speak
of the deceased friend. They pio-
neered together /, in North Dakota
when the State was prairie grass and
wide horizan; they attended the same
social functions and later Win Tubbs
followed his friend to California
where they have been chums ever
since. Mr.. McKinnon said "He mer-
tied the friendship of everyone. He
was the sincerest the most straight
forward man I ever knew" All the
pleasure he derived from live came
from the pleasure he was able to
give others. He spent his entire life
amongst boys. Boys were the joy of
his life, they had the run of his store,
they loved him, they helped him with
his work, he entered into their pleas
ures and encouraged them in being
real boys. The school boys of Po-
mona have lost real friend. He
knew the child nature from a life
long association with children. In all
the fifty years have known w. D..
Tubbs I have known him as the soul
of honor. In his 81 years he never
amassed a fortune, though he was
successful in all his business enter
prises. He gave his fortune for the
pleasure of others. He had great
love for his mother and during the
% years that he lived in California
he made it an unfailing rule to visit
her every other Sunday and the best
he could do for her was always done.
His acts Of kindness to other aged
people are unknown to even his clos
est friends for in all his kindness he
never advertised it. He was the
personification of genuine kindness,
goodness, and unselfishness.
Funeral services took place ON
Monday Nov. 9th, the Elks taking
charge at the home and the Masonic
body taking charge at the cemetery,
the Lions Club attended in body,
The sympathy of all who know the
Tubbs family in Sank Centre viii go
out to the aged mother and the rest
of the family in the passing Of this