Ron Shorthouse

Ron Shorthouse
Sex	M
Children Bill Shorthouse M 1940

Ron Shorthouse was the father of a fifteen year old scout, Bill Shorthouse, who was on a canoe trip on Spearfish and Albany Rivers when a younger boy, Bob Rathburn, was diagnosed with polio.^FK6

Ron drove the scoutmaster, Jim Blanchard, from their home in Clayburg to Spearfish Lake to tell the scouts that Bob had died and the trip was cancelled.^FK14