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Hauswirth,
Butte Mayor, Succumbs To Heart Attack
Hauswirth was re-elected to a fourth term as mayor of Butte last
Monday.
Hauswirth first was named mayor in 1935. He ran on the republican
ticket although the city normally is democratic. His recent victory in
the city polls was over Cliff Crowley, democrat, by 808 votes.
Hauswirth was born in Butte in 1882, the son of the late Simon
Hauswirth. His mother was the ninth white woman to come to Butte,
arriving in the mining city in 1870.
He was graduated from the Butte public schools and the Butte
Business College and was an outstanding catcher in the Butte baseball
league when he was a young man.
Hauswirth entered the grocery business in Butte in 1916 after
having sold automobiles in the east since 1911. In 1921, he purchased
the Western fuel company, which he owned at the time of his death.
In 1932, he began publishing the Eye-opener,
a local newspaper, and was elected mayor in 1935.
Hauswirth leaves his widow, three daughters—Mrs. Thomas
O’Hara, Mrs. Keith Combs, and Barbara Hauswirth; a son, Charles
Hauswirth, Jr., a student at University of Washington, and a brother, J.
R. Hauswirth, of Hamilton.
“News of Mayor Hauswirth’s death shocks me deeply,” Gov.
Ford said. “He was the
sort of man whom we can ill accord to lose, and his passing will bring
sorrow to a very wide circle of friends in all parts of the state.”
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Elks
Hold Rites for Hauswirth
Ritualistic services were conducted last night in the Butte Elks
temple for Mayor Charles A. Hauswirth.
The rites were conducted by Exalted Ruler James E. O’Neill and
staff officers of Butte Lodge No. 240.
Mayor Hauswirth became a 25 year member of the Elks two weeks
ago, at which time he and several others were presented with 25-year
pins.
Final rites for Mayor Hauswirth will be conducted at 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon in the Masonic Temple.
The services will be under the auspices of Summit Valley Lodge No
123 A. F. & A. M. of which the Mayor was a past master.
A reader from the Christian Science Church will assist.
Interment will be in the family plot in Mount Moriah cemetery.
Mayor Hauswirth died at his home Friday morning at 4 o’clock
following a heart attack suffered a short time previously.
His death came only a few days following his re-election to a
fourth term.
City policemen and firemen will march in an escort for the
funeral procession Monday.
The city hall will be closed after 1 o’clock Monday afternoon
and the city library will be closed from 2 to 5 o’clock in the
afternoon.
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