LEBAM - A pioneer resident of Lebam and Pacific County, Mrs. Josephine Matilda Gunderson, 89, died Wednesday in a South Bend hospital.
Mrs. Gunderson was born Oct. 10, 1873, in Aurora, Ore., and came to Pacific County when she was a baby. She was a 30-year member of the Ferndale Rebekah lodge and a lifelong member of the Lebam Methodist church. her husband, the late Edward Gunderson, died in 1928.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Hyatt, Waldport, Ore., a son, Fred, South Bend; sister, Mrs. Nellie Kight, Centralia, and three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are Saturday at 2 p.m., at the Murphy chapel in Raymond. The Rev. Bernard Mott will officiate with a member of the Ferndale Rebekah lodge assisting. Burial will be in the Lebam cemetery.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, 23 November 1962, page 2. Microfilm available at Centralia Timberland Library, 110 South Silver, Centralia, WA. 98531
Transcribed by Kathryn Lester. She has no further information on this individual.