Submitted by: anonymous
Date: 25 Aug 2005

"The following is a transcribed article from a scan that was sent with no exact
date or place of publication indicated. (Circa 1950s)"

"LaRoy Family of Kalama"
 
Edgar David LaRoy
 
Edgar LaRoy and wife Nellie came into Kalama in their houseboat on which they
floated in on the high water of 1879 and tied it up at first to the Carlson
Opera House and later moved to the corner of Geranium and First Street. A few
years later LaRoy took the logs out from under the float and built a lower story
which became a general store. After he died Nellie married Ed Cammack and
continued the store which was later turned into a confectionery. Later the
building burned and a new building built which is now the Town Tavern.
 
LaRoy came west from Sturgeon Bay, Michigan. The family had eleven children:
Milton and Wallace died when quite young, Agnes married Hanford Searls; William
was killed in an accident; Lewis married Hilda Blank from Iron River, Wisconsin;
Earl married Anna Rowland; Floyd married Ollie Hampton; Vern married Mildred
Stern; Clarence married Dulcie Clapp; and Tom who never married.
 
Aggie and Hanford had four children: Nellie, Edgar, Esther, and Paul. Nellie
married Elias Swift and had two children, Donald and Esther. Donald has a son a
and daughter. Esther had a daughter and three sons. Edgar married but had no
children. Esther Searles married W. A. Fuller and has a girl and a boy. Paul
married Cecil Searles and they have three children; Lois married Dewayne Cooper
and has a boy and two girls; Max is married and has three boys and two girls;
Mitchell is unmarried; William is unmarried.
 
Lewis and Hilda have five children: Ross B., Edgar D., Paul, Kathryn, and
Harold. Ross married Helen Bradford and had Ross Jr., Curtis, Jean, and Brian.
Ross Jr. married Darlene Lund of Lacenter and had Darrell, Kirk, Travis, and
Sonja. Later Ross separated and married Donna Brewer. Curtis married Sharon
Fuller and have Shannon and Heidi. Jean died at age three. Brian married Teresa
Youngman and have Shawn, Scott, and Tawnya.
 
Edgar married Rae Houriet and had a daughter Merydythe, who has two sons, Brent
and Drake Guthrie. He later married Dorothy Rasmussen and has a daughter Marlene
who is married and has a son Tyler Hitzemann. Paul died at an early age. Kathryn
married Basil Hobart and has a daughter Carol Sus. Later she married James T.
Johnson. Harold married Norene Stewart, they have two children, Christine and
Randy.
 
Earl LaRoy and Annie had two children. One died of pneumonia, the other, Ethel,
married Eddie Blye. They had two children. Tom is married and has two children,
and Barbara is married to Bob Scott and has two children. Floyd LaRoy and Ollie
had five children, three of whom survived, Rita, Lyle, and William. Rita married
Mort Miller of Rose Valley and they had two sons. Gary was killed in accident
and Dee who is married and lives in Tigard. Lyle married Betty and had three
children, a son and two daughters. William (or Bill) is married and has two
daughters and one son. Vern LaRoy and Mildred had one son Norman, who married
and has three sons. Clarence LaRoy and Dulcie has one daughter Vivian who
married Elmer Imus of Kalama. They had one daughter Sharon, and she had two
daughters. Sharon and one daughter were killed in a river accident. Tom LaRoy
never married.