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ONALASKA - Mrs. Bert (Sarah Ollie) Kempf, 48, a resident of the Onalaska area for the past 14 years, died Tuesday in a Chehalis hospital. She was born March 3, 1913, in Arkansas.
Prior to moving to the Lewis County area, she lived in New Mexico. She was a member of the Onalaska Presbyterian church.
Survivors, in addition to the husband, are four daughters, Mrs. Darlene Foister, Kelso; Mrs. Edna Hamilton, Onalaska, and the Misses Ladeva and Donna Jo Kempt [sic], both at home; three sons, Frank, Vader; Dean, Onalaska, and Earnest, in the U. S. Army at Fort Sill, Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Lela Moore, Clovis, N.M.; Mrs. Faye Oldham, Bortalis, N.M. and Mrs. Jewell Laney, Farmington, N. M.; her parents Mr. and Mrs. William Beasley, Clovis, and 13 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending at the Boone Mortuary, Chehalis.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, 16 May 1962, page 11. Microfilm available at Centralia Timberland Library, 110 South Silver, Centralia, WA. 98531
Transcribed by Kathryn Lester. She has no further information on this individual.