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training period he was transferred to France where he said all of the ghting was. Enderud was in the Combat Engineers where his primary job was to “carry a pick and shovel and help keep roads open.”
After he returned from France he resumed employment at the creamery, where he became a manager in 1920, leaving in 1921 when he purchased the Sinclair agency and ran a gas truck for 24 years. Henry remembers in an article that, “These were Model T days.”
In 1945 he sold the Sinclair business and bought the Castle Rock Liquor store which he ran for 13 years until 1958 when he retired at age 68. That was also the year that his second wife, Mary Briscoe Enderud whom
he married in 1939, passed away. Enderud’s rst wife, Ethel Cantril, whose father John Cantril built a two- story
brick house on
named after him, passed way in 1929; the couple had two daughters.
Enderud had actively farmed his property at Ridge Road and Highway 86 for 15 years until he sold in in 1979 at age 82. Enderud’s son-in-law, Richard E. McCosh, was an electrical engineer who served as a lieutenant commander
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in the Navy during World War II, and he applied for the Henry Enderud’s Purple Heart.
Henry Enderud passed away in February, 1981 from Hodgkins disease.
An August 23, 1929 article from
the Record Journal reported the unexpected death of the rst Mrs. Henry Enderud. Ethel Cantril Enderud entered Presbyterian Hospital in Denver a few days earlier for an operation and appeared ne until her sudden death. “The death of the good woman is doubly sad because of the fact that she leaves two small children, Bonnie, aged seven, and Mabel, aged three, to the care of others besides a mother’s. The heartbroken husband and her aged father, Mr. John Cantril, as well as everyone in the community are mourning over the loss of this kind and loving wife and mother, daughter, and true and faithful neighbor and friend.”
John Cantril passed away two years later in November 1931. The Record Journal reported in its November 24, 1931 edition under the headline, John Cantril, Pioneer, Crosses the Great Divide, “Douglas County lost one of her oldest and best loved citizens on Monday evening of this week when John Cantril, aged eighty-nine years gave up his ght for life and quietly passed to the Other World. Mr.
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