Fred Fletcher McCully, father of Kermit McCully, of La Grande, died in a La Grande hospital Friday. Funeral services were held Monday in the Wallowa Methodist church with interment in the Prairie Creek cemetery at Joseph.
He was born at Lebanon, October 8, 1870, and when about ten years of age, his parents came to Wallowa county where he grew to manhood. Joseph was the home of the deceased for a long time and he was cashier of the bank there; later he moved to Wallowa where he was active in community affairs and where he was city recorder at the time of his death.
Besides his son here, he leaves his widow, Margaret McCully, of Wallowa. There is also one grandson Jerry McCully.
Eastern Oregon Review.
December of 1945 or January 1946.
Contributed by: Holly Vonderohe