Individual Details
Stanley Leland "Tumble" Weed
(8 Nov 1910 - 30 Aug 1975)
"Tumble" Weed for several years was one of the "Singing Cowboy" movie stars. His stage name was Bob Baker. He also made and sold handtooled saddles. He died 30 August 1975 in Prescott, Yavapai, AZ of cancer.
Events
| Birth | 8 Nov 1910 | Forest City, Winnebago, IA | |||
| Marriage | 17 Sep 1935 | Flagstaff, Coconino, AZ - Murl Evelyn McCauley |  | ||
| Death | 30 Aug 1975 | of cancer - Prescott, Yavapai, AZ | | ||
| Obituary | 3 Sep 1975 | Prescott, Yavapai, AZ |  | ||
| Burial | 4 Sep 1975 | Clear Creek Cemetery, Cottonwood, Yavapai, AZ | |||
| Fraternal Order | Flagstaff Lodge #7, F & AM, Arizona |
Families
| Spouse | Murl Evelyn McCauley (1916 - 1993) |
| Child | Kenneth Raymond Weed (1936 - 1983) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Guy Lancelot Weed (1887 - 1968) |
| Mother | Ethel Geneva Leland Buren (1890 - 1971) |
| Sibling | Robert Buren Weed (1911 - 1980) |
| Sibling | Living |
Notes
Obituary
Stanley L. WEED'Tumbleweed' dies at 64; former Western actor
Stanley Leland WEED, 64, better known to his host of firends as "Tumbleweed," died at Whipple Veterans Hospital, Prescott, at 7:20 a.m., Saturday, August 30.
Funeral services will be at Westcott Funeral Home in Cottonwood at 10 a.m. Thursday, with graveside services conducted by the Fort Verde Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, at Clear Creek Cemetery immediately following.
A memorial service was held at the Flagstaff Lodge #7, F & AM, Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.
Tumbleweed, a resident of Camp Verde since 1959, was well-known in the motion picture industry as Bob Baker. He was popular in films during the era of the B-Western movie, starring in such pictures as "Courage of the West," "The Singing Outlaw," "Border Wolves," and "Black Bandit." He was a saddlemaker by trade and had a shop in Camp Verde for many years.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; one daughter, Barbara May Brown, El Paso, Texas; three sons, Kenneth, Cottonwood, Tom, Portland, Oregon, and Walter, Camarillo, California; one brother, Robert; and four sisters, Gretchen McDermott and Lori Jean Weis, California, Jean Alger, Kansas, and Miriam Grabeel, Prescott.
Pallbearers are Wade Bounds, Nelson Harris, Melvin Rask, Eugene Mulholland, Cecil Morris and Ted Morris. Honorary pallbearers are Frank Matheny, Minard Coons, Robert (Bud) Taylor, Elbert Walker, L. H. (Slim) Kite, C. C. Tuffy Peach, Ray Meyer and Norman York.
Members of the Color Guard of the D.A.V. are Al Long, commander; Floyd Wilson, Ed Naui and Wava Golliher.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cancer Research Society.
Endnotes
1. Russell, William, Russell, William. Tumbleweed: Best of the Singing Cowboys. Canton, OK: 1977 Western Revue, Vol. 4, No.2.
2. Remembrance card of Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood, AZ.