Mrs. Fabris Passes Away

Mrs. Pete (Margaret Adella) Fabris, 56, longtime Lewis county resident, passed away in a local hospital Tuesday after a long illness. The family home is on route 4, Chehalis.

Born June 27, 1899, in Olympia, Mrs. Fabris lived in Southwest Washington all her life, except for 20 years in Alaska. She was a member of the Lutheran church.

Surviving in addition to her husband, are a daughter, Mrs. Sybil DeGarmo, Centralia; two sons, Preston Wendling, Chehalis, and James Wendling, Klaber; four sisters, Mrs. Clara Nelson, Tacoma, Mrs. Grace Linn, Walla Walla, and Mrs. Hanna Denyer and Mrs. Jean Zink, Olympia; two brothers, Leonard Blackwood, Grant's Pass, Ore.; and Mott Blackwood, Olympia, and seven grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Fissell funeral home in Chehalis.


Source: The Daily Chronicle (Centralia, WA), Wednesday, 31 Aug 1955, p. 16.

Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen, who has no further information on this individual.

[Editor's note: Pete and Margaret Fabris are buried at Claquato (Sunset Memorial) Cemetery in Chehalis.]