La Grande, Union County, Oregon
Mrs. Oscar Jacobson Jr. died at the hospital in Ontario, Saturday, Dec. 24 following a very short illness. She took sick suddenly and was taken to the Ontario hospital where she was operated on three times but they were not successful.
Ruth Watkins was born in La Grande in 1902 and has lived in this community practically her entire life where she was well known and highly respected by all. She was married to Oscar Jacobson Jr. in 1920. She is survived by her husband, also her father, two sisters and five brothers, her mother, a sister and brother having passed away a few years ago.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m. from the M.E. church of this town and interment was made in the North Powder cemetery.
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North Powder News
Saturday, December 31, 1927