East Lewis Native Dies

GLENOMA Ð Mrs. Della Pearl Blomstrom, 62, a native resident of the Glenoma Ð Riffe area, died Tuesday in a Morton hospital. Mrs. Blomstrom was born May 29, 1897, in Riffe.

Survivors include one son, Alvin, Glenoma; four daughters, Mrs. Mary Bentley, Cosmopolis; Iola Hendricks, Aberdeen; Daisy Beal, Tide Water, Ore., and Faye Addington, Kosmos; two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Schoonover, Mossyrock, and Mrs. Julie Phiffer, Centralia; 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Friday at 1 p.m., at the Glenoma Pentecostal church with the Rev. Lance Allen officiating. Interment will be at the Rainey Valley cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Fissell mortuary in Morton.

Source: The Daily Chronicle, 29 October 1959, page 23. Microfilm available at Centralia Timberland Library, 110 South Silver, Centralia, WA. 98531

Transcribed by Kathryn Lester. She has no further information on this individual.