Death Takes Onalaskan
ONALASKA - A resident of Onalaska for the past 7? {scratch through line] years, Mrs. Frank (Kitty) Wright Blair, 87, died Saturday, in a Chehalis hospital following a short illness.
She was born March 29, 1875, at Sommerville, Ga.
Survivors include five sons, Marion, Onalaska, Niel, Morton. Grant, Gales Creek, Ore., A. A. Wright, Portland, and C. E. Wright, Rockaway, Ore.; seven daughters, mrs. Cecil Birley, Mossyrock, Mrs. Ed Shore, Onalaska, Mrs. Merle Mills, Centralia, Mrs. Arnold Hite, Onalaska, Mrs. Claude Reed, Chehalis, Mrs. Al Crouse, Eureka, Calif., and Mrs. Opal Smethingale, San Jose, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. V. O. Wallace, Chehalis, Mrs. mamie Bezzo, Hoquiam, and Mrs. Laura Bemis, Raymond; two brothers, jack Allen, Spokane, and Tom Allen, Seattle; 32 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, 1 p.m., at the Salkum church, with the Rev. Walter Peckover officiating. Burial will be at the Salkum cemetery under the direction of the Fissell Funeral Home, Chehalis.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, 02 July 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.