Robert Waddle, 72 Dies Friday
Robert W. Waddle, 72 resident of Thurston and Lewis counties for the past 52 years, died Friday afternoon at his home on Waunch prairie, north of Centralia, from a heart attack. He had been prominent in the activities of the Southwest Washington Pioneer Association circles Educated as a youth at Walla Walla, Waddle homesteaded a farm on the Cowlitz river near Toledo when at the age of 21 years. He later moved to southern Thurston county, where he owned the land now the site of the mining town of Tono, which he sold to the Washington Union Coal Company to a townsite. He acquired his present home after leaving Tono. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. V. A. Pan Cake, and a brother, Hiram Waddle, both of Milton, W. Va. He had been a member of the Centralia Christian church since boyhood; a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Ford's Prairie Grange. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Sticklin Mortuary, Centralia. Rev. G. E. McNay officiated. Burial was at Olympia.
Source: The Chehalis Bee-Nugget, 30 October 1931, page 12. Microfilm available at Washington State Library, 6880 Capitol Boulevard South, Tumwater, WA. 98512
Transcribed by Kathryn Lester. She has no further information on this individual.