Taken from El Dorado Times, El Dorado, Butler Co., Kansas Friday, Oct. 28, 1960 front page

Former El Dorado Man Killed in Duck Hunting Accident

William Lewis (Bill) Sammons of Bemidji, Minn., a former resident of El Dorado, was shot and killed, in a duck hunting accident on a lake near Bemidji Thursday morning.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete but burial will be at Bemidji.

Sammons moved to Bemidji in 1955, and was manager of the Skelgas bottling plant there at the time of his death.

Born July 26, 1930, he attended the local grade and high schools and served three years in the United States Army. While serving in Italy, he was married in 1947 and he and his wife returned to El Dorado shortly after their marriage.

Surviving in addition to the widow are three sons, Max, Andrew and Peter of the home, his father, George W. Sammons, 203 North Griffith; three brothers, Clinton Sammons, 1105 South Denver, Don Sammons, 825 South Emporia, and Bob Sammons; 1105 West Olive; four sisters, Mrs. John C. Governski, 709 Charron Drive, Louise McGuire, also of El Dorado, and Mrs. Maude Cowan, Manitou Colo., and a number of nieces and nephews.