Kern County Obituaries

Harry Purte

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Mojave Desert News; 4 Sep 1947

AGED RECLUSE IS FOUND DEAD
Harry Purte, 70, a recluse who had spent the past 25 years of his life in the 
mountains west of Antelope Valley was found dead at his camp on Thursday 
morning of last week from natural causes.
Mr. Tippman, who rides for the Tejon ranch, had been watching Purte for several 
days, packing in food, etc. He reported to Deputy Lawrence Duntley that the man 
should be brought out for medical aid.
An attempt was made by Duntley, accompanied by Mr. Tippman and Tommy 
Loomis to bring him out on Thursday, August 21 but the old man refused to come. 
Mr. Tippman went back on the 27th and found the man in serious condition. Officer 
Sanders, Deputy Duntley, Mr. Tippman, Tommy Loomis and Dave McKenzie went 
in from the Antelope Valley side, a distance of 10 miles west of the Antelope 
General Petroleum Pump Statior which had to be traveled on horseback. When the 
party arrived they found the old man had died from natural causes and had been 
dead about six hours.
The body was loaded on a horse and packed. out to Castiac Lake where Deputy 
Sheriff Roberts was waiting with an ambulance from Snyder of Bakersfield, who 
took the body to the Kern County Coroner's office.

NOTE:
CADI (Name is misspelled in article)
William Harry PRITTIE
b. 24 Jul 1875, NY
d. 28 Aug 1947