Mrs. Fishback Is Called by Death
Sallie Hargis Fishback, widow of Herbert O. Fishback, former Washington State insurance commissioner, and the mother of Mrs. J. E. Butler of Waitsburg, died in a Walla Walla nursing home Tuesday.
Ninety-three years old, she was born in Marion County, Mo., December 11, 1860 and married in Pierre, S. Dak., in 1884. The family lived in Rochester, Minn., before moving to Tacoma in 1889, and in 1899 a farm near Chehalis became their home.
After her husband's death in 1933 Mrs. Fishback lived in the family home with a son, Thomas L. Fishback, until his death in December, 1950, when she moved to the home of Mrs. Butler.
In addition to Mrs. Butler, survivors are two sons, Herbert O. Fishback of Seattle and George T. Fishback of Los Molinos, Calif., 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Fishback was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church.
The funeral will be in the Boone Chapel in Chehalis Saturday at 10:30 a.m., and interment will be in the family plot in the Claquato Cemetery. A Waitsburg funeral director will take the body to Chehalis.
Source: The Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla, WA), Wednesday, 19 May 1954, p. 5.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen, who is researching the Fishback/Olds family, and would be happy to share information.