Emerson Paul Bingaman
Daily Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Thursday, June 14, 1973
Fruitland Man Dies in Crash
LaGRANDE, Ore. (UPI) Emerson Paul Bingaman, 62, Fruitland, Idaho was killed Wednesday when he was struck by a truck while working on a constuction project on Interstate 80N six miles west of here.
State police said the eastbound truck was driven by Ralph James Stubbs, Hermiston. Bingaman was employed by K.C. Compton Construction, Co.
Argus Observer (Monday, June 18, 1973)
Emerson P. Bingaman
FRUITLAND - Services for Emerson Paul Bingaman, 62, Fruitland, who died Wednesday in a traffic accident near LaGrande, Ore., will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the New Plymouth Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel by the Rev. Earl Traughber of the Fruitland Church of the Brethren. Interment will follow at Park View Cemetery.
He was born Oct. 26, 1910, at Fruitland. He grew up and attended schools there and married Vera Cummings in Fruitland, Aug. 31, 1938.
They moved to Dee, Ore., where he worked for the Oregon Lumber Co, 1942 when they moved to Bremerton, Wash., where he worked in the shipyards during World War II. They farmed in Oregon and Idaho until 1960 when Mr. Bingaman began working in construction in Fruitland. He had been in construction since that time.
He was a member of the Fruitland Church of the Brethren. In addition to his wife of Fruitland, he is survived by three sons, Gary Bingaman of Liberia, Africa, Don Bingaman of Lewiston, and Dan Bingaman of Boise; his mother, Mrs. Mabel Bingaman of Fruitland; two brothers, Eldredge D. Bingaman of New Plymouth and Gene Gardner of Boise; one sister, Mrs. Marjorie Smith, of Ontario and four grandchildren.
