contributor: Lynne Robison

Oconto County Reporter 
June 16, 1966

Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Mabel B. (should be "E") George, 66, Oconto business woman, who died following a collision at Stiles Junction Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. George was declared dead on arrival at Oconto Memorial hospital, and the four other occupants of the car in which she was a passenger were injured, non critically.

Mrs. George was a passenger in a car driven by Raymond Matravers, 65, R1-Abrams, eastbound on highway 22 when it was struck by a southbound auto driven by Martin C. Mataya,19, Cudahy, Mr. Matravers stopped at the arterial, but then started to cross highway 141, not seeing the approaching Mataya car.

The Matravers auto was struck broadside on the right rear door.

Mrs. George's death was attributed to internal injuries. Most seriously injured of the other occupants was Mrs. (Vivian) Clarence Durand, 48, who sustained multiple fractured ribs and contusions to the head and right leg. Her condition is fair. Her husband suffered fractured ribs and a deep scalp laceration. His condition is good, as is that of Mr. Matravers, who suffered lacerations and abrasions of the forehead and contusions of the chest and right elbow.

Neither Mrs. (Ruth) Matravers nor the driver of the other auto was hospitalized.

Mrs. George, nee Mabel Bigelow, was born August 24, 1889 at Stiles. She was a lifetime resident of the county, and owner and manager of the Tommy Store restaurant here for 24 years.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian church, and was a deaconess of the church, also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Friends called at the Gallagher funeral home until she was taken to the church at 11:00 a.m. yesterday. Services were conducted at two o'clock, the Reverend Robert F. Hollett officiating. Burial was a Evergreen cemetery.

Surviving her are five daughters, Ruth, Mrs. Raymond Matravers; Vivian, Mrs. Clarence Durand; Ruby, Mrs. Howard Larson, Sturgeon Bay; Betty, Mrs. Chester Leigh, and Jane Mrs. Ronald Christman both of Kenosha; three sons, Wallace Lucas, Oconto; Robert Lucas, Torrance, Calif., and Lawrence George, Denmark, Wis; one brother Harry Bigelow, Kingford, Mich.; one sister, Mrs. (Abbie) Arthur Johnson, Iron Mountain, Mich.; 32 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. One son, John, preceded her in death

Contributor's Note: Her parents were Edward James Bigelow and Anna Tappa of Stiles. She married John Edward Olson in 1913, and had two children John(Jack) and Ruth. Her husband died in 1916. In 1917, she married Robert Henry Lucas Sr. and had three children, Vivian Nellie, Wallace Henry, and Robert Henry Jr. They divorced. In 1926, she married Howard Elmer George, and had 6 children, Ruby Rose, Donald, Betty Lou, Lawrence Elmer, Jane Mae, Floyd Joseph. In her lifetime she was pregnant 13 times, raised 9 children losing 4 of them. - I am her grand daughter, daughter of Robert Henry Lucas Jr.,
Lynne Marie Lucas Robison.