Sgt. Harvey Clifford Ferguson


Graveside services for longtime Owens Valley resident 
Harvey Clifford Ferguson, 67, will be held on Thursday, 
Jan. 30, at the Independence Cemetery at 2 p.m. The Highway 
Patrol and the Masonic Lodge will perform rites.

Born to Clifford and Ellen Erickson Ferguson in Antioch on 
Aug. 4, 1935, Sgt. Ferguson died on Jan. 22 at the Tahoe 
Pacific Hospital in Sparks, Nev.

A retired California Highway Patrol officer, Sgt. 
Ferguson's family moved to Concord, Calif. and later to 
Milwaukee, where he graduated from Boys Technical and Trade 
School. He then moved to Southern California where he 
attended Los Angeles City College and Chaffey College.

He met and married Gretchen Simmons in 1957 and joined the 
Highway Patrol the same year.

In 1975, he transferred to the Owens Valley, serving at the 
Lone Pine office, where the couple made their home. He 
retired from the Highway Patrol after serving for 25 years, 
and later moved to Bishop. He loved hunting, fishing and 
gunsmithing. He was an active member of the Lions Club and 
Masonic Family.

He was preceded in death by mother, Ellen Frances Ferguson.

Sgt. Ferguson is survived by wife of 45 years, Gretchen of 
Bishop; son, Daniel Edward Ferguson of Ferndale, Wash.; 
grandsons, Nicholas and Alexander, of North Carolina; and 
stepdaughters, Melissa of Washington and Jan of Virginia.

Inyo Register, Bishop, Inyo County, California
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - Page A2

Transcribed by Denise S. Flynn