Wallowa County OR

Sasser, J. Wesley – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Dies At Home John Wesley Sasser, a retired farmer, passed away at his home in Enterprise Tuesday, March 14, 1967, following several years of ill health. Funeral services will be held at the Bollman Chapel with Rev. Lester Wells officiating, and internment will be in the Enterprise cemetery. Time of the services are pending. Son of Abraham and Margaret Sasser, the deceased was born in Laurel County, Kentucky on January 9, 1897, coming to Wallowa county while young. On August 30, 1924 he was married at Enterprise to Pearl Winters who survives him. He was a … Read more

M Surname, Wallowa Cemetery, Wallowa County, Oregon

M Surnames – Wallowa Cemetery, Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon Macauley, James W. 1863 : 1946 Macauley, Kimberly : Macauley, Minnie Frances 1 NOV 1874 : 7 SEP 1970 Macauley, Wayne James 10 OCT 1911 : 30 JUN 1979 Mahoney, Ann Elizabeth 11 JUL 1895 : 18 AUG 1972 Mahoney, Patrick Edward 1 APR 1885 : 7 MAR 1952 Mallory, Kate 1851 : 1910 Manor, Jennie : 1 JAN 1922 Marcum, Ruth 6 MAR 1907 : 20 JUL 1984 Marnin, Catherine 14 MAY 1871 : 31 JAN 1917 Marsh, Dorthy Lane 1918 : 1953 Marshall, Catherine 1873 : 1937 Marshall, Frank … Read more

Bork, Marvin – Obituary

Wallowa, Oregon Marvin Bork, 92, died at the nursing home in Enterprise on Feb. 27, 2005. He was born in Flora on July 22, 1912, the son of Rudolph and Rena Bork. Mr. Bork went to school in Flora. In his early years, during the Depression, he worked in the hay fields one summer for fifty cents a day. He saved his money and gave it to his parents. Mr. Bork injured his hip joint when he fell off of a load of hay, crippling him for life. Mr. Bork had a natural talent for mechanical work, and started on … Read more

Fordney, William H. – Obituary

William H. Fordney, a former resident of the north end of Wallowa County, passed away at his home near Turlock, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 22, 1931. William Henry Fordney was born in Scotland County, Missouri, Feb. 18, 1863, and was at the time of his death aged 67 years, 11 months and 4 days. He came to the Lost Prairie country in 1887, with his brother, Peter Fordney, now deceased. The Fordneys lived in Wallowa County for many years. In the fall of 1907, William H. Fordney moved to California and purchased the land three miles from Turlock, which was his … Read more

Bay, Bernice – Obituary

Bernice Wilson Bay, 87, of Huntington, New York and formerly of La Grande, died Friday, March 19, at Huntington Hospital. A Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church. Payne Family Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Bay was born on October 5, 1911 to William and Myra (Hatfield) Wilson in La Grande. She lived in La Grande and Enterprise for many years after her marriage to Lawrence Bay in 1935. During World War II, she and her husband lived in Seattle, but they later returned to Oregon to rear … Read more

Caudle, Agnes – Obituary

Lostine, Wallowa County, Oregon Services Held for Agnes Caudle Mrs. Harley (Agnes) Caudle of Lostine, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 1975 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital following a short illness. She was born July 12, 1901 in the Leap area northwest of Enterprise, daughter of Jasper and Yauchey Chapman, and had lived in Wallowa County all of her life. On June 28, 1924 she was married to Harley Caudle at Enterprise. She was a member of the South Fork Grange and the CowBelles. Survivors include her husband, Harley, at the Lostine home; two daughters, Mrs. Duke (Rhee) Lathrop of Lostine and … Read more

Smith, Eli – Obituary

Mrs. Weldon Silver of Troy received word Friday night that her father, Eli Smith, died at his home Thursday evening. Mr. Smith was an early pioneer of the Grouse country, coming in on Grouse flat and taking a homestead many years ago. His first wife died on the homestead many years ago. He was married again and stayed on the place for several years. Two years ago this fall as Mr. and Mrs. Smith were coming to Troy their team became frightened and ran away down the grade, throwing both of them out of the buggy. Mrs. Smith was so … Read more

Yost, Gladys Irene

Gladys Irene Yost Lifetime resident of Wallowa County, Gladys Irene Yost, of Enterprise, died Thursday, Sept. 14, 1987 at St. Mary’s Medical center in Walla Walla, Wash. She was 64. Gladys was born Jan. 27, 1923 at the family homestead in the Leap Area, the daughter of Louis and Hazel West Lathrop. On Aug. 25, 1942 she married rancher Paul J. Yost at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. the couple farmed and ranched in Wallowa County all their married life. Gladys was a member of the Wallowa County Cow Belles, of which she was an honorary lifetime member, an honorary member of … Read more

McClain, Benjamin Franklin – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Frank McLain Laid To Rest Benjamin Franklin McLain, born June 9, 1892, passed away suddenly at his home Friday, February 27. For some time his general health had been poor and the complications had proved fatal. Benjamin Franklin McClain, the son of James and Alice McLain, was one of the early pioneers of Wallowa County. His early life was spent on the family farm on upper Prairie Creek. He moved to Joseph with his parents in 1910, graduating from the Joseph high school with the class of 1914. He worked a few years in the First … Read more

Biographical Sketch of John W. Thompson

It is always a pleasure to outline the career of an honest, upright and progressive man, who has left the more thickly settled portions of the country, pressing out into the regions of wildness to bring them under the sway of civilization’s uplifting influences, spending, meanwhile, sturdy effort and drawing upon an exhaustless store of courage and determination to accomplish this worthy end and so we turn with zest to chronicle the events in the life of the capable and worthy citizen, whose name initiates this paragraph, since he has displayed qualities that are priceless, and manifested virtues and abilities … Read more

Bay, Lulu Catherine Mrs.

Rosary Tomorrow For Lulu Bay Mrs. Lulu Catherine Bay passed away Wednesday morning, March 28, 1973 at Wallowa County Nursing Home where she had resided since July 1, 1967. She was born April 14, 1887 in La Grande, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Jake Gulling. She was a member of St. Katherine’s Catholic Church. Survivors include one sister, Ethel Sears, Corry, PA.; two grandsons, David Bay, Concord Calif., and Steve Bay, Los Angeles. Recitation of Rosary will be tomorrow (Friday) at 6:30 p. m. at the Bollman Chapel, and requiem mass will be offered by Father Richard S. Bradley at … Read more

Willis, Laura Ethel – Obituary

Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon Services Held For Laura Willis Mrs. Laura Ethel Willis of Joseph passed away on Thursday, April 26, 1973 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital where she has been a patient for six days. She was the daughter of Alfred C. and Matilda Toney and was born in Joseph on February 18, 1900. She had lived in and near Joseph all her life. On Nov. 22, 1924 she was married to William Jasper Willis who preceded her in death in 1949 She was a member of Wallowa Lake American Legion auxiliary 157 of Joseph and a life member of … Read more

Cook, George Bartholomew McClellen – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon “Mack” Cook Answers Call George B. McClellen Cook passed away at the Enterprise hospital Feb. 1 after a short illness. “Mack” Cook was born Feb. 27, 1862, near Dallas, Polk County, Oregon to Thomas l. and Harriet Cook who crossed the plains by ox team in 1854. He was one of ten children born to this union. The family resided in Polk County until 1878 when the father and his sons, Jerile, William, Tom (Dick) and N.J. came to Wallowa County and all located homesteads on the South fork of the Wallowa river except N.J. who … Read more

Wheeler, Lydia – Obituary

Wallowa, Oregon Lydia I. Wheeler, 77, formerly of Wallowa, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1987 at her home in Milton-Freewater. She was born June 26, 1910 at Kirwin, Kan., daughter of Daniel and Alpha Vest Lare. The family lived in Kirwin, where she attended school until October, 1916, when the family moved to Oregon. They settled at Wallowa, where she graduated from high school. On Sept. 8, 1930, she married Joseph R. Wheeler at Enterprise. They moved to Freewater in the spring of 1931 and moved to a home on the South Fork of the Walla Walla River in the spring … Read more

Trainor, Mrs. Guillia – Obituary

Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon Mrs. Guillia Trainor passed away at the Sheets Hotel last Saturday morning after a long illness. She was a pioneer of Wallowa County, having lived here since 1883. Guillia Scott was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1870 and died in Joseph Feb. 6, 1937, aged 67 years, 26 days. She came by covered wagon with her family when a small child and after living in Milton a short time the Scott family came to Wallowa County. She was married Sept. 10, 1885 to Allen J. Kutch and to this union was born Mrs. Belle … Read more

Downing, Mrs. J.A. – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Mrs. J.A. Downing, resident of the county for nearly 50 years, passed away at the Enterprise hospital Saturday evening, August 7, 1937. She had made her home with her children in recent years, and went to the hospital when taken seriously ill. Funeral services were held at the Booth chapel Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H.G. Luscombe, pastor of the Methodist church, and burial was in the Wallowa cemetery. Ella Zerba was born in Wisconsin July 13, 1862, and when she was young the family moved to Nebraska and then to Milton. She was married in … Read more

Biographical Sketch of James A. Alford

The subject of this article is one of the pioneers of the west and labored faithfully in many sections for its opening and has made a record for frontier work that demonstrates him both a capable and courageous man. He was born in Missouri, on November 19, 1854, being the son of John and Sallie Alford. He remained in his native state until he had reached seventeen years of age and then he went to Utah and engaged in mining, being the second man in the noted Bingham gulch there. He worked there for one year and then came to … Read more

Cole, Philip Loyd – Obituary

Philip Loyd Cole 1896 – 1954 Philip Loyd was the third child and youngest son of Maud Ruthanar Burnap and Robert Lindford Cole. He was born in Prairie Creek, Oregon on April 5, 1896. He went through grade school in Lost Prairie, Oregon where his parents had homesteader. His last school teacher was his older brother, Claud. After finishing his schooling he worked on his father’s homestead until he left for Lethbridge, Canada in 1916. he did farm and ranch work there also. On March 23, 1920 he married Marie Shinman, a registered nurse. In 1922 their only child, a … Read more

Kimble, Earl – Obituary

Word was received Tuesday of the death of Earl Kimble at Spokane. The telegram did not give the cause of his death but it is supposed to have been the influenza as they are having it hard in Spokane. He accompanied his father to this city last month to attend the funeral of L.W. Kimble. Wallowa County Reporter, Wallowa County, Oregon, Thursday November 7, 1918

McComas, E. S. – Obituary

One of the largest funerals in the history of the town of Union marked the obsequies of the pioneer editor and politician, E. S. McComas. The funeral was held at Union, Wednesday afternoon, September 6 at 3 o’clock, and was attended by a great gathering of pioneers. The body was laid to rest beside his mother, brother, and son. The deceased leaves a widow, one daughter, an adopted son and three sisters, Mrs. Alice M. Bell of Enterprise, Mrs. Esther E. Pursel and Mrs. Mary R. Thomson of Union. Mrs. Bell received word of her brother’s extermity Saturday afternoon and … Read more