Death Takes Randle Man
RANDLE - A school bus driver for the White Pass school district, Walter James Churchel, 64, Randle, died Thursday in a Morton hospital following a short illness.
Born May 16, 1897, at Lansing, Mich., Mr. Churchel had been a resident of the Cispus Valley area of Randle for 30 years. He was a veteran of World War I.
In addition to the widow, Henrietta, at home, survivors incude a son, Walter James Churchel Jr., Randle; four daughters, Mrs. Adaline Wood, Seattle; Mrs. Emma Pruitt, Sacramento, Calif., and Mrs. Loleta Johnson and Mrs. Eva Jean Wilson, both ot Tacoma; two sisters, Mrs. Irene Cower, Hoquiam, and Mrs. Margaret Valentine, Ocean City; two brothers, Joe, Whidbey Island, and Harold, Aberdeen, and 12 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Silver Brook Community church, at Randle, with the Rev. Raymond Hill officiating. Burial will follow at the Silver Creek cemetery under the direction of the Fissell Funeral Home, Morton.
Source: The Daily Chronicle (Centralia, WA), Friday, 4 May 1962, p. 8.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen.