OBITUARY - AARON A. WHEATLEY, JR.

Submitted by: Jan Redelsperger, jansperger at gmail dot com

Source: "The Daily News," Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington, March 1935

AARON WHEATLEY IS VICTIM  OF BLOOD POISON

A scratch on the leg received while at work March 11 for the F. P. Turner Tie
Mill brought death from blood poisoning last night to Aaron A. Wheatley, Jr.,
28, member of a well known family residing in the Mount Pleasant vicinity near
Kelso.  Aaron died in the Kelso General hospital.

Wheatley was born at Ariel, on the Lewis River.  He moved from there to Portland
and at 14 years age came to the Mount Pleasant district.  He was a member of the
Boy Scouts in Portland and was a lecturer of the Mount Pleasant Grange.

Survivors are his wife, Avis and three children, Alvin, Erwin and Faye, all at
home;  his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Wheatley, Sr., of Mount Pleasant; four
brothers, James, Wiley, Sam and Tom all of the vicinity; three sisters, Mrs.
Thelma Doble, Mount Pleasant;  Mrs. Irene Hill and Mrs. Bess Kramer, Portland.

Funeral services will be held on Monday at 10:00 a.m. at the chapel of the
Ditlevsen Funeral Home  in Kelso.  Interment will be on Mount Pleasant. Grange
members who will serve as pallbearers are Hal Barber, Clarence Winslow, Melvin
Snodgrass, R. W. Matthews, Frank Hoffman and James Watson.