Daisy Ellen Long Native Baker Co.
Funeral services for Daisy Ellen Long 85, were conducted at 3 pm Saturday, Jan. 8, 1966 at West and Co. Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Clyde Matthews of Haines Baptist Church officiated. Interment followed at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Long passed away at St. Elizabeth Hosp. Wed. Jan 5, after a short illness. She was born Feb. 8, 1880 at Haines, OR., the daughter of pioneer parents Andrew J. Toney and Hannah Rebecca Toney who crossed the plains in1867 and came to the Haines and Baker areas. She attended school at Willow Creek School, SW of Haines.
On Feb. 12, 1895 in Baker, Mrs. Long was married to John R. Long. She spent her entire life in Baker County residing on a farm in Muddy Creek district until moving to Baker in 1938. Her husband John R. Long receded her in death is 1944.
She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Elsa O. Vandecar, Durkee; Mrs. Velma A. Cloud, Baker; and Mrs. Eva Warren, Redding, CA.; three sisters, Mrs. Eva Herriett of Everett, WA., Mrs. Alta Long, Phoenix, AZ., and Mrs. Edna Best of Baker; one brother, Mr. Carlie Toney of Portland; sic grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
She was a longtime member of the Baptist Church and the Dorcas Missionary Soc.
Source: The Record Courier, Baker City, Oregon, January, 1966
Contributed by: Belva Ticknor